Company Backgrounder

About Prolific

Prolific makes leading-edge, IC design optimization software tools. These automated tools significantly reduce development time and improve the performance of cell-based designs.

Founded

1995

Headquarters

Silicon Valley, California

Market

Typical users include library and chip designers at semiconductor manufacturers and fabless design houses, working on high performance and low power designs

Products

ProGenesis® is a state-of-the-art, automated, cell library creation tool that reduces development time from man-weeks to days and adapts to changes in design requirements or rules.
ProTiming™ is an add-on for Synopsys PrimeTime® that automatically improves timing performance by an average of 10 percent by intelligently selecting, placing, or combining standard cells, even in designs previously optimized during the place-and-route flow.
ProPower ® is an add-on for ProTiming that reduces leakage power by 20 percent on previously optimized designs by automatically changing instances in the design with other instances that have less leakage power, without increasing cycle time.
ProDFMOptimizer™ is a standalone tool that optimizes manufacturability of standard cell GDS.

Partners

Prolific's tools work with those from Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, and Magma

Management Team

• Paul de Dood, President and Founder
• Daniel Albers, Chief Technology Officer

Investors

Prolific is a privately held company.