( ESNUG 323 Item 16 ) --------------------------------------------- [7/22/99]
Subject: Synopsys ACS Will Come With Both DC Expert And DC Ultra Licenses
> "b) Automatic synth and distributed process runs. Synopsys ACS is
> here. It looks to be viable. It does distribution to multiple
> machines (using multiple licenses of course; they all do). It only
> comes with an ultra license. The Synopsys offering is a bit further
> along and changable by the user. Ambit's offering is free, has
> more distributed stuff (like a very cool job status and control
> center), has the push button approach, but is less configurable.
> Both tools have nice stop, check and restart features. Both are
> hungry to get these working on big designs. We need a multi
> license, multi server environment to take advantage of the features.
>
> - an anon engineer
From: [ Synopsys ACS Marketing ]
Hi John,
I enjoyed reading your DAC'99 Trip Report. As always it has a lot of
interesting designers views and perspectives. I did spot in it a couple
of misunderstandings regarding Synopsys' Automated Chip Synthesis (ACS)
which I would like to correct for your readers:
1. There is no extra charge for ACS. It will be rolled out in both
DC Expert and DC Ultra.
2. The user can take advantage of ACS even when using a single server
environment. In addition to distributed compilation which requires
multiple CPUs, ACS automates the following tasks regardless of the
number of CPUs you are using: budgeting the synthesized modules,
creating the compile scripts to meet the synthesis targets for each
module, and manage the design data.
All of which can be very tedious, error prone and time consuming when
dealing with large designs.
Thanks for letting me clear this up.
- [ Synopsys ACS Marketing ]
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