Azuro reports growth in 2009

This was accomplished by renewing contracts and adding new customers, the company said.

As a private company, Azuro said it is unable to divulge much about finances. However, Paul Cunningham, CEO of Azuro, accepted to give some precisions to EDA DesignLine.

He declared: "We can confirm that growth was in line with expectations, and came from all three continents (North America, Asia, and Europe). We expect India, Europe, and California to be high growth areas for Azuro in 2010."

In 2009, Azuro said it included its PowerCentric clock tree synthesis solution in TSMC's new Integrated Sign-Off Flow.

The company said it also completed about fifty production tape-outs across three continents.

One illustration is STMicroelectronics. The European chipmaker indeed announced in July 2009 that its Home Entertainment and Displays Group had adopted Azuro's PowerCentric to tape-out its next generation set-top-box design. Azuro claimed that it reduces chip power by up to 20 percent and increases designers' productivity on designs with complex clock networks.

Azuro said its recently-launched Rubix unified skew and physical synthesis technology also contributed to sales for the year by increasing clock frequency and slashing turnaround times in the back end of the design flow.

Rubix is a unified placement, sizing, and useful skew-based clock tree synthesis tool for digital standard cell-based chip designs. It increases clock frequencies by up to 20 percent and accelerates timing closure in the backend of the design flow by up to two months.

"We can also confirm that we expect Rubix revenues to ramp significantly in 2010 as the technology transitions from its early adopters to mainstream centralized flow deployments," stated Cunningham.

Founded in 2002, Azuro is a privately held company with R&D offices in Cambridge, England.