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Subject: Cadence BONes Designer Suite Chows Enormous Amounts Of CPU Cycles
> Does anyone have any experience with Cadence BONes Designer suite,
> Coware's N2C, or SES's workbench? Any comments regarding good or bad
> things you have to say about the above titles would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> - Chris Power
> Lucent
From: Rohit Sharma <sharmar@ssd.comm.mot.com>
I have some experience with BONeS Designer. It is a good tool and seems
to output pretty accurate results and good predictions. The problems are
these:
(1) Long learning curve - advisable to take training from Cadence
(2) Enormous amounts of processing power required. Our model takes
about a couple of months to run all the simulations when it is run
on 20 Ultra -2 Sparcstations. You can imagine. :-)
We are planning to upgrade our model to run on Ultra-30s which are supposed
to be 5 times faster. Even then, running all the simulations would take
a week.
- Rohit Sharma
Motorola Schaumburg, IL
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