SANTA CLARA, USA: Azuro, Inc. a provider of software tools for semiconductor chip design, recently announced its first customer tapeout using the Azuro Rubix clock concurrent optimization tool.

This achievement, together with several benchmark successes in the first quarter of 2009, has lead Azuro to promote Rubix status to general availability.

"Rubix delivered compelling performance wins out of the box on multiple engagements in Q1. This benefit is being traded easily for reduced area or leakage, and also gives a dramatic increase in designer productivity," said Barb Acosta, vice president of sales and business development at Azuro. "With Rubix we are able to expand rapidly into new design groups with different design challenges to those addressed by our PowerCentric clock tree synthesis solution."

Rubix leverages an identical flow integration interface to PowerCentric and includes a full superset of its capabilities. Pricing is available for existing PowerCentric users to upgrade seamlessly to Rubix at any time during their license term.