( ESNUG 295 Item 3 ) ----------------------------------------------- [7/8/98]
Subject: ( ESNUG 292 #1 ) Synopsys Should Catch Up On In-Place Optimization
> I thought you might be interested in a new product from Avanti. Saturn
> ( formerly 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 & 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. It claims 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.)
>
> - [ I Came, I Saw, They Conquered ]
From: [ One Of Those Evil Cadence Marketing Guys ]
Dear John,
It seems like Avant! is playing catch-up game on the In-Place Optimization
front. Cadence's PB-Opt (Placement Based Optimization) product does
post-layout in-place optimization and is well integrated into our flow.
And BTW, this product has been out there for more than 3 years now...
- [ One Of Those Evil Cadence Marketing Guys ]
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