Press Release
Release date: May 27, 2008
Synopsys Unveils New IC Compiler Router Delivering 10X Speed-up
Zroute Brings Multi-threaded Routing and Advanced DFM Optimizations to IC Compiler Users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 27 /- Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today unveiled Zroute, a new multi-threaded router fully integrated into IC Compiler. Driven by leading-edge early users in the microprocessor, consumer, wireless and computer-graphics markets, Zroute has been developed from the ground up to take full advantage of the newest multi-core microprocessor architectures and to solve emerging design-for-manufacturability (DFM) challenges in IC design.
Zroute's modern architecture incorporates state-of-the-art routing technology, such as native support of soft rules to enable "lithography-friendly" routing and avoid manufacturing problems. By simultaneously considering the impact of manufacturing rules, as well as timing and other design goals, Zroute delivers high quality of results (QoR) and improved manufacturability. Zroute was developed to take advantage of modern multi-core compute platforms. Utilizing a combination of advanced routing algorithms and multi-threading technology, Zroute has shown a speed increase of more than 10X on customer designs running on quad-core machines.
"With its multi-threaded capability and its flexibility to dynamically support both on-grid and off-grid routing, Zroute is very well-positioned to meet our needs for faster design closure," said Michael Shiuan, vice president of Engineering at S3 Graphics. "In our trials, Zroute converged 3.3 times faster when single-threaded and achieved a 10X boost in performance when we used it with a quad-core platform."
Zroute is incorporated as a standard feature in IC Compiler, offering an alternate choice for routing technology which can be enabled by customers as required. Zroute was specifically developed as a concurrent optimization router to deal with future technical challenges. Rather than addressing these issues later in the flow, Zroute's strategy reserves routing resources for yield optimizations at each step of the flow, enabling their impact to be considered simultaneously with other cost functions. Additionally, Zroute is multi-threaded at each of its internal steps. Its routing engines have demonstrated near-linear scalability of runtimes as the number of threads increases, promising significant speed-ups for IC Compiler customers transitioning to four- or eight-core platforms and beyond.
"Zroute is an excellent example of Synopsys' investment in R&D to help our customers stay ahead of the technology curve. Anticipating future requirements, we set out to develop a new router that not only could address the emerging issues of DFM, timing, and other design goals, but could do it much faster executing transparently on the new multi-core processors," said Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager, Synopsys Implementation Group. "Zroute has been very successful with early adopters, and we're looking forward to bringing this exciting technology to all IC Compiler users."
Zroute will be in limited production availability as a standard feature in IC Compiler in June 2008.
About IC Compiler
IC Compiler is Synopsys' comprehensive physical design solution. It provides superior results and faster time-to-results by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route, and by enabling signoff-driven design closure. Older solutions have a limited horizon because placement, clock tree, and routing are separate, disjointed operations. IC Compiler's XPS technology breaks down the walls between these steps by extending physical synthesis to full place-and-route. IC Compiler has a unified, TCL-based architecture that implements innovations and harnesses some of Synopsys' best core technologies. It is a complete physical design system with everything necessary to implement next-generation designs, including physical synthesis, design planning, placement, routing, timing, signal integrity (SI) optimization, power reduction, design-for-test (DFT), and yield optimization.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 60 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.
Synopsys is a registered trademark of Synopsys, Inc. Any other product or company names mentioned in this release are or may be the intellectual property of their respective owners.
Company Information:
Name: Synopsys, Inc.
Address: 700 E. Middlefield Rd.
City: Mountain View
State: CA
ZIP: 94043 4033
Country: USA
Phone: 650-584-5000
http://www.synopsys.com/
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
| Related Stories: | | Oct 9, 2008 | EDA Software accelerates design closure. |
| Oct 7, 2008 | EDA Software speeds full-chip verification. |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Software extracts HiSIM_HV models for IC-CAP platform. |
| Sep 30, 2008 | EDA Software offers mixed signal implementation solution. |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Online Tool facilitates sensor signal path development. |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Process Design Kit helps create analog/mixed signal designs. |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Verification IP Software supports PCI Express 3.0. |
| Sep 3, 2008 | EDA Software facilitates RF module design. |
| Aug 22, 2008 | Development Kit helps build embedded processing systems. |
| Aug 15, 2008 | EDA Software improves RF board design. |
| Aug 12, 2008 | IDE Software facilitates low-power design creation. |
| Aug 1, 2008 | Software measures and extracts DC and RF parameter values. |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Prototyping Kit speeds ARM1176 development time. |
| Jul 22, 2008 | Floorplan Synthesis Solution offers automated functionality. |
| Jul 21, 2008 | EDA Software is offered with WVAN wireless library. |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Embedded Development Kit supports system-on-chip designs. |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Power Management Software optimizes chip energy consumption. |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Software is used for system level design and verifications. |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Noise Analysis Tool tests complex analog and RF circuits. |
| May 29, 2008 | Software verifies memory interfaces and ensures correctness. |
|
| More New Product News from this company: | | Oct 9, 2008 | EDA Software accelerates design closure. |
| Oct 7, 2008 | EDA Software speeds full-chip verification. |
| Sep 30, 2008 | EDA Software offers mixed signal implementation solution. |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Processor Cores are fully synthesizable for flexibility. |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Integrated Device facilitates SATA integration. |
| Jul 22, 2008 | System-Level Library features 80 transaction level models. |
| Jun 25, 2008 | IP System includes PCI-SIG I/O virtualization technology. |
| Jun 10, 2008 | ASIC Prototyping System features expandable architecture. |
| May 1, 2008 | PHY IP promotes PCI Express interface integration. |
| Apr 21, 2008 | USB PHY IP enables interoperability with USB 2.0 products. |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Endpoint Digital Controller IP simplifies transition to PCIe. |
| Apr 3, 2008 | SoC Design Software identifies congested regions in a circuit. |
| Mar 3, 2008 | EDA Software has concurrent hierarchical design capability. |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Tool Suite facilitates low-power chip development. |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Digital Controller and PHY IP enable power efficient ICs. |
| Nov 6, 2007 | Software facilitates failure analysis for production ICs. |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Software speeds virtual platform development. |
| Jul 5, 2007 | Virtual Platform integrates software/hardware before prototyping. |
| Jun 21, 2007 | Software assists with SATA AHCI development. |
|
| Other News from this company: | | Mar 12, 2008 |
Synopsys CFO Brian Beattie to Speak at Citi Small and Mid-Cap Conference
|
| Feb 27, 2008 |
Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus to Speak at the 2008 Morgan Stanley Technology Conference
|
| Feb 26, 2008 |
Synopsys and SMIC Deliver Enhanced 90-Nanometer Reference Flow to Reduce IC Design and Test Costs
|
| Feb 26, 2008 |
Synopsys Unveils Proteus Pipeline Technology, Delivering a New Level of Performance
|
| Feb 21, 2008 |
Synopsys Experts on the Road IP Seminar and Keynote Luncheon with Jeff Ravencraft, President of the USB-IF
|
| Feb 14, 2008 |
Radiospire Standardizes on Synopsys VCS and VMM Methodology for Next- Generation AirHook Chipset Designs
|
| Feb 13, 2008 |
Synopsys CFO Brian Beattie to Speak at D.A. Davidson Electronic Systems Design Conference
|
| Jan 22, 2008 |
Synopsys and Acceleware Deliver Hardware Accelerated Solution for Design of Optoelectronic Devices
|
| Jan 21, 2008 |
Magma, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys Deliver Unified Power Format-Based Products
|
| Jan 21, 2008 |
Synopsys IC Compiler Successfully Employed by Matsushita for First 45-nm SoC Design Tapeout
|
| Jan 02, 2008 |
Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus to Speak at the Needham Growth Conference January 8, 2008
|
| Nov 07, 2007 |
Synopsys and UMC Deliver 65-Nanometer Reference Flow
|
| Oct 02, 2007 |
Synopsys Acquires Sandwork Design
|
| Sep 27, 2007 |
Global Unichip Adopts Synopsys Test Solution to Achieve Higher SoC Test Quality
|
| Sep 26, 2007 |
Synopsys Recognizes Engineers' Technical Excellence with Best Paper Awards at SNUG Boston Conference
|
| Sep 04, 2007 |
eRide Converts to Synopsys Design Compiler Ultra for Next-Generation GPS Chips
|
| Aug 29, 2007 |
Synopsys and SMIC Jointly Address China Mobile TV Market with Low Power Design Solution
|
| Aug 29, 2007 |
Synopsys Senior Vice President to Speak at the 2007 Citi Global Technology Conference
|
| Jul 30, 2007 |
Synopsys Completes Acquisition of MOSAID Semiconductor IP Assets
|
| Jul 16, 2007 |
Synopsys Agrees to Acquire MOSAID Semiconductor IP Assets
|
|
|
|
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
