Continuing the trend of delivering innovative synthesis technology, Design Compiler® Graphical delivers superior quality of results and streamlines the flow for a faster, more predictable design implementation. Design Compiler Graphical uses advanced optimizations combined with accurate net delay modeling to achieve 5% faster timing post-placement. It extends DC Ultra™ topographical technology to provide physical guidance to IC Compiler, tightening timing and area correlation between synthesis and placement to 5% while speeding-up IC Compiler placement by 1.5X.

Benefits

  • Performance: Advanced optimizations deliver 10% faster timing QoR
  • Correlation: Physical guidance to IC Compiler tightens correlation of timing, area and power to within 5% and speeds placement by 1.5X
  • Congestion: Accurate pre- and post-synthesis congestion prediction and congestion-driven optimization eases routing
  • Efficiency: Gate-to-gate optimization for smaller area on new or legacy designs while maintaining timing Quality of Results (QoR)
  • Debugging: Cross-probing between RTL, and design views such as schematic, timing reports and physical views for faster debugging
  • Visualization: Early physical visualization and debugging identifies layout issues prior to physical implementation
  • Convergence: Floorplan exploration for faster design convergence to an optimal floorplan
  • Runtime: 2X faster runtime on quad-core compute servers
  • Synthesis: Concurrent multi-corner, multi-mode (MCMM) synthesis