Numetrics Management Systems, Inc., the semiconductor industry’s
leading supplier of schedule predictability, today announced NMX-ERP™
3.0, its next generation suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software for integrated circuit (IC) development organizations. The new
software significantly extends the company’s
top-down project planning and risk measurement capabilities, handling
chips designed in nodes down to 45 nm. Numetrics’
approach to project planning and risk measurement is unique in the
industry and gives a powerful boost to the customer’s
revenue, profits and market share. Projects finish on-time, within
budget and with competitive cycle times, which is why six of the top ten
semiconductor companies use Numetrics’ ERP
software.
Packed with dozens of new features, this next generation release of
NMX-ERP incorporates a new rich-client graphical user interface, a new
project plan synthesis engine, an XML interface to integrate with other
enterprise tools, and Numetrics’ eighth
generation IC (Integrated Circuit) design complexity calculation engine.
“The semiconductor industry misses product
development 89% of the time, and when they miss, they miss big, with the
average chip design taking six to nine months longer than anticipated,”
said Ron Collett, Numetrics’ president and
CEO. “The cost to cost to semiconductor
companies is staggering, and increasing design complexity threatens to
make the problem worse. NMX-ERP 3.0 is a culmination of nearly two years
of effort by our development organization and a significant leap forward
for our customers. Our solution is truly unique because it is the only
one that accurately measures IC development schedule risk and exposes
overly risky project plans by benchmarking their underlying assumptions
against industry norms and past performance.”
NMX-ERP Release 3.0 includes a range of new features including the
following:
1) Complexity Calculation Engine: Eighth generation of Numetrics’
patented complexity calculation engine leverages in-depth data mining of
past generations of process technology nodes to establish a quantitative
relationship between process node maturity and chip design complexity.
The engine is calibrated on Numetrics’ full
industry database of 1200 IC projects and support design styles
including SoC, analog and mixed-signal, RF, ASICs, ASSPs, and advanced
processors.
2) Project Plan Synthesis. New project plan synthesis engine
generates estimates of duration and staffing required in each major
phase of the IC development cycle. Users can perform “what-if”
simulation on each phase, modulating either the duration or staffing to
see the impact on the other.
3) XML-interface: NMX-ERP 3.0 now offers enterprise-wide
integration options for collecting, reporting, and archiving customers’
valuable project data. With the newly released XML schema, customers are
able to rapidly exchange data between NMX-ERP 3.0 and their internal
systems.
4) New GUI: New Java-based, rich-client, graphical user interface
further enhances the usability of Numetrics tools. Dozens of new
features were added in this release to allow users to customize
reporting and viewing of the data.
Pricing typically ranges from $35,000 to $95,000 per IC project,
depending on the project’s complexity and
size. NMX-ERP 3.0 is delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), or for
users who prefer a pure turnkey engagement, Numetrics also offers
professional services
About Numetrics Management Systems, Inc.
Numetrics provides a unique suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software to semiconductor companies that enables unprecedented
predictability of development schedules, reliably measures project
schedule risk, and benchmarks development performance against the
industry’s best-in-class. In use by six of
the top ten semiconductor companies, the solution leverages Numetrics’
patented IC design complexity calculation engine, which is calibrated
with statistical data from more than 1,200 benchmarked chip projects
compiled from nearly 40 semiconductor companies. The Numetrics’
NMX-ERP™ solution enables superior project
schedule estimation, risk analysis, resource planning, execution
pipeline analysis and benchmarking. The company is headquartered at
Cupertino, CA.
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