Electronic Design

What’s Next for Physically Aware DFT?

Why isolated flows negatively impact design schedule and PPA. Benefits of unified DFT, synthesis, and physical design flows. Physical implementation optimization methods for test compression and scan ...
EDN

Yield-aware flow launches

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Cadence Design Systems Inc. acknowledges that large numbers of designers won't buy tools in its high-end Encounter GXL series, a “yield aware” IC implementation flow aimed at 65 ...
EDN

New generation of physical RTL synthesis improves QoR

The quality of the netlist generated during RTL synthesis has an enormous impact on the rest of the physical design flow. For teams designing large SoCs at advanced nodes, it is more important than ...
Design-Reuse

Cadence Introduces Genus Synthesis Solution, Delivering Up to 10X Improvement in RTL Design Productivity

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence® Genus™ Synthesis Solution, its next-generation register-transfer level (RTL) synthesis and physical synthesis engine, to address ...
Electronic Design

Physical Synthesis Arrives For FPGAs

FPGA complexity is exploding, and RTL synthesis is running out of steam. With its Precision Physical Synthesis tool, Mentor Graphics melds the best of both RTL and physical synthesis. The result is ...