PARIS — Danish EDA startup Teklatech, provider of floorplanning and clock distribution network solutions, announced Think Silicon Ltd, Greek design services and IP core provider, has selected its FloorDirector EDA software tool for use in 90-nm and 65-nm designs.

Teklatech (Copenhagen, Denmark) claimed its FloorDirector floorplanning and clock distribution tool achieves timing robustness and control over dynamic power peaks in System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. According to Teklatech, FloorDirector "enables a modular, highly scalable and variability-robust approach to system-level clock distribution, and thus tracks well into nanometer geometries."

The FloorDirector tool, added the Danish startup, reduces dynamic IR drop and supply noise by flattening power peaks, thus improving signal and power integrity. FloorDirector was introduced at the Design Automation Conference (DATE) in March 2008 in Munich, Germany

Think Silicon said its choice was motivated by FloorDirector's ability to deliver SoC power shaping and provide robustness to on-chip-variation. Think Silicon added that, by using FloorDirector, it expects to reduce time-to-market and enable more profitable semiconductor products while providing services to the European and Israeli market.

In an interview with EE Times Europe, back in March, Tobias Bjerregaard, Teklatech's founder and CEO, declared: "I believe very strongly that the timing for this type of tools is perfect because the market is ready for them. When we started approaching customers two years ago, we saw people telling us 'we do not face the problem now but we are currently looking into it'. We are now, at a time, when people are moving to 65-nm and to 45-nm nodes. This is exactly where the benefits of FloorDirector are going to come."

Teklatech was founded in 2006, as a spin-off from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In May 2007, the startup raised $1.5 million in funding. Main investors are Ulrik Danneskiold-Samsoe Holding and founding investor, SEED Capital Denmark.