Numetrics to provide project planning tools to STMicro

CUPERTINO, USA: Numetrics, the leading provider of fact-based resource and schedule estimation tools for semiconductor and embedded software projects, announced a multi-year agreement concluded recently with the Automotive Product Group (APG) of STMicroelectronics, a global leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and a leader in automotive IC’s. APG will apply the Numetrics’ software as part of a broad initiative to continue to ensure world-class product development productivity and schedule predictability.

“Our objective is to establish APG as the undisputed leader in R&D, and Numetrics’ fact-based planning solution is part of that equation,” said Paul Grimme, executive VP and GM of STMicroelectronics Automotive Product Group. “The Numetrics solution gives us a powerful planning, benchmarking, program management and metrics infrastructure, which helps continue and improve the optimal deployment of R&D resources, a cornerstone for further maximizing productivity and on-time schedule performance.”

Using models calibrated with large quantities of industry data together with APG’s own project data, Numetrics’ fact-based project planning tools enable engineering managers to generate the most reliable project plans possible. Resource estimates are based on a calculation of the target design’s complexity combined with the project’s schedule constraints and expected team performance.

The solution allows users to optimally balance and reconcile the competing constraints on a project, including resource availability, desired functionality, schedule and development budget. Numetrics’ tools have been applied to over 2,000 production IC projects from more than 50 companies in the semiconductor and electronics industry.