Avant! Introduces Aquarius-DP: The First All-Path, Timing-Driven Datapath Design Tool; Aquarius-DP Offers a Datapath Solution Based on Superior Performance-Driven Floorplan, Place and Route.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1997--Avant! Corporation (Nasdaq:AVNT) today announced the newest member of its Aquarius(TM) family of production-proven place and route tools. Aquarius-DP(TM) is the industry's first all-path, timing-driven datapath design solution specifically targeted at designs that contain a significant number of datapath modules such as microprocessors, digital signal processors A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
Aquarius-DP shares with other tools from the Aquarius family the same all-path, timing-driven placement and routing, while taking special care of regular structures that allow pin abutment abutment /abut·ment/ (ah-but´ment) a supporting structure to sustain lateral or horizontal pressure, as the anchorage tooth for a fixed or removable partial denture. a·but·ment n. and cell alignment. In addition, Aquarius-DP provides easy-to-use utilities for designers to extract datapath structure from the netlist and also offers interactive, in-place editing and automatic all-path timing-driven optimization functions. "With Aquarius-DP, Avant! continues to offer tools to meet the unique needs of designers of deep-submicron, high-speed, complex ICs that accept a structured custom design approach," said Gerald S Gerald - ["Gerald: An Exceptional Lazy Functional Programming Language", A.C. Reeves et al, in Functional Programming, Glasgow 1989, K. Davis et al eds, Springer 1990]. . Hsu, chairman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Avant!. "Aquarius-DP enables users to produce smaller chips that meet stringent performance standards while significantly reducing design turn around time." Key Features and Benefits Aquarius-DP offers optimal placement for repetitive cells, and shortens critical wires by straightening connections through aligned pins enabling users to meet high-speed design timing constraints resulting in the densest die for high-performance chips. To guarantee timing, Aquarius-DP's performance-driven optimization helps determine the most efficient cell ordering in complex datapath designs with the addition of irregular random logic. Aquarius-DP's congestion-driven spacing analyzes the congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. map reported by the place and route tool (Aquarius-XO or Aquarius-DP) and makes floorplan adjustments to guarantee routability. Aquarius-DP is designed to converge con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. to the densest routable area. Aquarius-DP is tightly integrated with Avant!'s production-proven Aquarius-XO and Aquarius-GA place and route systems for whole-chip assembly. A unique advantage of this approach is that the user can optimize datapath structure to optimize placement and routing of the whole chip. This methodology results in superior size and performance both on the datapath block and chip level. Aquarius-DP complements the existing Avant! physical design tool suite with extra optimization capability for regular structure designs. It leverages the regular design structure, including pin abutment and cell alignment, to achieve high-density, high-performance requirements. Aquarius-DP also deploys Avant!'s patented slack graph approach for all-path timing-driven bit-array placement optimization to get extra optimization beyond the gain from the regular design structure. Aquarius-DP is seamlessly integrated with Avant!'s Planet floorplanning and Aquarius-XO place and route tools. Aquarius-DP is available now on Unix workstations. Pricing starts at $70,000. About Avant! Avant! (pronounced ah VANH tee) Corporation develops, markets and supports integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for design automation (ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) software for the layout, verification, and analysis of deep-submicron ICs including microprocessors, microcontrollers, application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and complex application-specific integrated circuits (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. (ASICs). The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . Telephone: 408 738-8881. Fax: 408 738-8508. World Wide Web: http://www.avanticorp.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Aquarius is a trademark of Avant! Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and should be treated as such. CONTACT: Avant! Don Davis The name Don Davis may refer to one of the following people:
don_davis@avanticorp.com or Vic Kulkarni, 408/328-8681 vic_kulkarni@avanticorp.com |
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