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Dubai Circuit Design Centre receives award from Global Design Forum in Germany

Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) in Munich recognizes DCD's Technical Excellence

L-R Tariq El. Motassadeq, Manu Baby, Khalid Laarif.

Munich, Germany - November 30, 2008 - Dubai Circuit Design (DCD), the region's first Design Center for physical implementation of advanced integrated circuits and a 100% owned center by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), announced it received the "Honourable Mention" award from the technical committee, at the 17th annual Synopsys Users' Group (SNUG®) conference in Munich, Germany.

Dubai Circuit Design engineers have presented three technical papers covering various topics in chip design, and have received high ratings from the conference participants for the topics presented. One of the papers presented by senior engineers Manu Baby and Vijay Sarathi of DCD for "Advanced Design for Testability (DFT) Implementation Using Synopsys Design Ware Components and Galaxy Test" has received the Honourable Mention award from the Technical Committee.

DCD Designs the Region’s First Integrated Circuit

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Euro Asia Semiconductor

New milestone in the region’s technology industry with the first Design of a Security Application Integrated Chip
The design center at DSO contributes to enhancing Dubai’s position on the international IC Design map Dubai - UAE, June 19, 2008: Dubai Circuit Design (DCD), the region’s first Design Center for physical implementation of advanced integrated circuits and a 100% owned center by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), announced today the conclusion of the region’s first design of an advanced integrated circuit. The SMC chip was designed using Synopsys’ proven EDA tools and Pilot Design Environment.

The region’s first integrated circuit was designed using 65 nanometer manufacturing process technology from TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry. The test chip is designed for data security applications and contains around 22 million transistors. This encryption/decryption chip was implemented using special low-power design techniques to minimize power consumption.

A Motley Design Crew

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EE Times

The Dubai Circuit Design (DCD) team was formed to perform advanced IC design. It's careful to point out that it's not competing strictly on cost, but on its ability to deliver on challenging designs at a competitive price. Members of the team are pulled from around the region, including Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and India. A partnership with EDA tool provider Synopsys allows it to pull on that company's experts when needed, and its servers are identical to Synopsys' so that design teams from around the world can access the designs and make changes in real time over an interface and toolset they're familiar with.

Dubai Silicon Oasis Chooses SYNOPSYS to Establish First IC Design Center in the United Arab Emirates

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Synopsys Technology and Expertise Help Set Up Design Center
To Serve Customers Worldwide

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., September 26, 2007 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced that the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the region’s innovation hub for high-technology industries, has chosen Synopsys’ Professional Services and Synopsys’ Pilot Design Environment to establish the Dubai Circuit Design (DCD) center. This center is the region’s first chip design center for physical implementation of advanced integrated circuits (ICs).

Dubai Silicon Oasis Establishes Integrated Circuit Design Centre

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New Facility Aims to Produce Chip Design Made In Dubai

Dubai: 13 February, 2007 – Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) has announced the setting up of Dubai Circuit Design FZE, a dedicated Integrated Circuit design centre fully owned by DSO that aims to produce chip design made in Dubai.

The new facility will complement existing regional and global Integrated Circuit design companies already located at DSO. The move is part of DSO’s long term strategy to broaden its role in the creation of a knowledge-based economy and follows the establishment of the Microelectronic Innovation Centre two years ago.

Dr Mohammed Al Zarouni, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Silicon Oasis said: “Dubai Silicon Oasis is committed to promoting and facilitating the development of an electronics-based industry in the UAE and the wider region. In today’s challenging and ever changing scientific world, we are left with no choice but to speed up our move to keep pace with the latest in the field of technology.”