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From: [ I Came, I Saw, They Conquered ]
Subject: Synopsys Should Catch Up With Avanti In In-Place Optimization
I thought you might be interested in a new product from Avanti. Saturn
(formerly their Solar & Solar II) is a post-layout synthesis & optimization
tool from Avanti that eliminates the need for IPO. Avanti claims that with
VDSM you need a very tight synthesis/layout loop (duh!) to converge and meet
timing goals. The interesting thing is that Avanti has acquired synthesis
technology and stealthily struck at a Synopsys weakness. I find it hard to
believe Avanti's claims, but they claims to support re-sizing gates, pin
swapping, buffer insertion, and boolean optimization for post-layout
optimization. They also claim to work on million gate designs in reasonable
times. They also claim to accurately output Verilog netlists and Synopsys
ECO Compiler scripts (whoa!). (If some or most of this is true, they are
way ahead of Synopsys. Maybe if someone kicks Synopsys in the pants the way
Ambit did, they will finally get their act together with links to layout the
way they did with 1998.02 for large block top-down synthesis. Maybe if you
publicize this, it will happen even faster.)
Feel free to use the previous information any way you want as long as you do
not associate my name with it. Thanks.
- [ I Came, I Saw, They Conquered ]
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