News Release from: Apache Design Solutions
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 July 2006
Speedy simulator handles larger chip designs
The latest release of RedHawk-EV delivers at least 2x faster runtime performance and 40% less memory utilisation for full-chip dynamic power integrity compared with the previous version.
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Apache Design Solutions has announced that the latest release of RedHawk-EV delivers at least 2x faster runtime performance and 40% less memory utilisation for full-chip dynamic power integrity compared with the previous version. The speedup and capacity improvements increase based on the size and complexity of the design. In a recent tapeout support, the dynamic simulation run-time was reduced from 14h 30min to 6h 38min on a 65nm design with 8 million gates.
On a larger design with 110 million gates, RedHawk-EV version 5.3 delivered an even more significant runtime speedup with a total run-time reduction from 58 to 12h running on a 64bit machine.
This was a highly complex design whose analysis included an RDL (redistribution layer) with complex power routings and with on-chip memories fully modelled down to the lowest level of metal.
'As design size and complexity increases, the tools used by customers to validate their designs need to keep pace with their demands', said Dian Yang, Vice President of Product Management at Apache.
'In spite of our significant competitive lead in runtime and capacity, Apache continues to enhance our products and technologies to meet the needs of our customers' most challenging designs'.
'The latest enhancements in performance and memory are obtained from upgrades of our core physical database, extraction engine, and simulation kernel with no impact on waveform accuracy', said Andrew Yang, CEO of Apache Design Solutions.
'The new version improves customers' productivity by significantly reducing the overall turnaround time of deploying full-chip dynamic solutions to SoC designs at 65nm and below'.
Apache will be demonstrating RedHawk-EV, along with their complete power integrity and noise management solutions, on Booth 1906 at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco.
RedHawk-EV version 5.3 is immediately available for customer use.
All existing RedHawk-EV customers will automatically receive version 5.3 as part of their maintenance.
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