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Experts At The Table: The Growing Signoff Headache
Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss signoff issues with Robert Hoogenstryd, senior director of marketing for signoff at Synopsys, and more.
May 09, 2013

20nm timing analysis – a practical and scalable approach
Using hierarchy and improved constraints management to accelerate static timing analysis at 20nm and below.
Dec 06, 2012

Reducing Turnaround Time with Hierarchical Timing Analysis
PrimeTime HyperScale technology addresses the existing challenges of STA on hierarchical designs and enables seamless hierarchical STA signoff on multi-million instance SoCs like those used in today's smart phones.
Oct 03, 2011

Synopsys introduced PrimeTime’s next generation ECO technology
The new technology targeted at the overall optimal ECO guidance, considers all the possible violations. This technology also reduces the runtime. Ikutaro Kojima, Tech-On!, Nikkei BP (The article is written in Japanese)
Jan 29, 2011

Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction
Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss parasitic extraction with Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design analysis and signoff at Synopsys
Feb 11, 2010

Static Timing Analyzer Goes Multicore And Distributed
Synopsys continues to follow through on its multicore initiative, which the company announced in March 2008.
Jan 27, 2010

Threaded multicore processing ready for Synopsys' PrimeTime
EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. said it has added threaded multicore processing to its latest release of PrimeTime static analysis tool, enabling up to 2x speed of timing signoff.
Jan 11, 2010

How to multithread a timing analyzer
http://www.edn.com/blog/1690000169/post/1260051926.html
Jan 11, 2010

PrimeTime 2009.12 Delivers New Threaded Multicore Performance
Synopsys, Inc. announced the immediate availability of PrimeTime 2009.12, which it claims delivers up to 2X speed up of timing signoff through the addition of threaded multicore processing.
Jan 11, 2010

Synopsys expands parasitic extraction capabilities for AMS designs
EDA and IP vendor, Synopsys Inc. has expanded its parasitic extraction tools with analog mixed-signal (AMS) and custom digital IC designers in mind.
Sep 28, 2009

Synopsys reorganizes extraction offerings: Star RC becomes trinary system
Synopsys reorganizes extraction offerings: Star RC becomes trinary system
Sep 21, 2009

Synopsys offers StarRC Custom extraction tool
Synopsys, Inc. has extended its Galaxy implementation platform with the StarRC Custom parasitic extraction solution for analog mixed-signal and custom digital IC design.
Sep 21, 2009

Flexible Analysis is Key to Power Integrity
Find out why millions of business professionals turn to LexisNexis® to gain unique insights and make informed decisions.
Oct 20, 2008

Accellera Rolls Power Plan
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Oct 20, 2008

Statistical timing gets a foothold in leading-edge designs
Is statistical timing analysis really helping anyone, or is it an EDA-industry marketing ploy? This simmering debate within the leading edge of the chip design community bubbled to the surface in the plenary sessions Wednesday during the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). The topic was the subject of both a lunch-time panel discussion and a plenary paper by one of the founders of the sport, IBM's Chandu Visweswariah.
Mar 24, 2008

Industry Ready to Sign On to Statistical Timing Signoff
Until recently, statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) had been the darling of EDA-centric technical conferences and symposia for several years.
Sep 27, 2007

Process Variations Require Integrated Sign-Off Solutions
In the traditional ASIC design flow, the sign-off stage was a key, well-defined point in the chip-making process. The designers would complete their front-end design and gate-level implementation, run timing sign-off using a static timing analysis tool, and hand the design to the ASIC foundry along with the timing constraints.
Jul 06, 2007

Synopsys donates technology to Accellera low power effort
Top-tier EDA vendor Synopsys Inc. said Tuesday (Sept. 19) it has donated power management technology to the Unified Power Format (UPF) standardization effort of EDA standards organization Accellera.
Sep 19, 2006

Power integrity analysis for billion-transistor full-custom designs
While the move to advanced process technologies has enabled levels of integration to reach new heights, engineers must now work harder than ever to realize those benefits.
Sep 17, 2006

How Much Test Compression is Enough?
Each new manufacturing process generation brings with it a whole new set of challenges. In an era of multimillion-gate complexity and increasing density of nanometer manufacturing defects, a key challenge today is creating the highest quality deep submicron (DSM) manufacturing tests in the most cost-effective manner possible.
Feb 20, 2006




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