As with all EDA sectors, the main question facing the place-and-route sector is, how do we provide enough value to ensure mass proliferation of our newest technologies among our customer-base? And, as ...
A predictable trend in IC design is the ever-increasing size and complexity of designs while keeping the time allocated for the projects the same or shorter. Along with the tape-out pressure, ...
The Aprisa digital design software helps designers address the many challenges of low-power designs. Aprisa is the most flexible IC place-and-route tool on the market—it accepts all industry-standard ...
New layout requirements and routing in the nanometer age are forcing a fundamental shift in layout automation techniques. This shift is a move from the traditional gridded approach to placement and ...
In the 2007.03 release of IC Compiler, Synopsys' flagship place-and-route tool, designers can look for faster runtimes, higher capacity, smarter multicorner/multimode (MCMM) optimizations, and ...
SpringSoft's Laker place-and-route system has added OpenAccess support, making it more broadly interoperable with other best-in-class implementation tools and flows. The tool now supports file ...