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Overview
Working with Circuit Explorer, IP Explorer is a performance tradeoff exploration tool that works with Circuit Explorer to deliver a comprehensive view of circuit performance data. This powerful application provides designers with an intuitive way to quickly compare performance tradeoffs between potential circuit candidates. They then choose the sizing that best matches desired performance objectives across all environmental and manufacturing process corners. Additionally, IP Explorer facilitates design reuse by allowing designers to create and review a library of simulator validated circuit candidates.
IP Explorer presents design information in an intuitive and interactive multi-dimensional color graph. IP Explorer allows designers to view an archive of circuit solutions, providing insight into potential circuit topology performance and earlier review of optimal circuit candidates.
- Benefits
- Improves understanding of topology performance tradeoffs
- Facilitates optimal topology selection
- Performs interactive "what if" scenario analyses
- Explores effects of worst case environmental and manufacturing process corners
- Explores effects of device sizes on circuit performance
- Provides a visual representation of design alternatives that facilitates communication within design teams, with system-level designers, and with design managers
- Archive allows for easy design reuse
- Interacts with Circuit Explorer providing real-time results and circuit solution cross probing
- Features
- Filter function hides circuit solutions not suited for the current application
- Brush function color-codes circuit solutions of immediate interest
- Select function highlights circuits for detailed inspection
- Plotting Options
- Multi-topology format allows comparisons between topologies
- 2-dimensional x-y coordinate plot details performance tradeoffs
- Multi-dimensional parallel axis plot displays dozens of performance measurements
- All plotting windows are fully interactive allowing real-time filtering, brushing, and selecting
IP Explorer shows performance tradeoffs among all optimized circuit solutions
IP Explorer visually illustrates the benefits of one topology over another, allowing the designer to find the best circuit for the application
IP Explorer displays the performance tradeoffs between the original and an optimized circuit
- Requirements
- 1 CPU (900 MHz, 512 MB RAM)
- Available for:
- Sun Solaris 8 and 9
- Linux RedHat Enterprise 3.0
For more information about Synopsys products, support services or training, visit us on the web at www.synopsys.com, contact your local sales representative or call (650)584-5000.
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