Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Monterey Design Systems | Subject: IC Wizard V2.3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 March 2002
Timing analysis joins IC design planner
Monterey Design Systems has released version 2.3 of IC Wizard, the hierarchical design planner that drives the Monterey System-Driven Physical Design (SDPD) solution
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A result of its merger with Aristo Technology less than a year ago, this release represents a major milestone in Monterey's product roadmap for hierarchical design planning. It also fortifies Monterey's leading position in the hierarchical design planning process with a rich set of new functionality.
"With the 2.3 release, IC Wizard leverages its foundation of physical planning capabilities to include timing analysis, constraint budgeting and allocation, and model generation", said Wolfgang Helfricht, product marketing director at Monterey.
"Based on proprietary technology, this timing engine is the consummate combination of speed and accuracy, and provides an unprecedented level of consistency and correlation throughout the entire physical implementation process".
New to IC Wizard 2.3 is timing-driven block placement and shaping, mapping and budgeting of timing constraints including full support for hierarchy management, interactive and automatic power planning and routing, and automatic generation of block-level timing models.
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IC Wizard, used in conjunction with physical implementation tools from either Monterey or other EDA vendors, provides a fast, predictable path to design closure by providing a means of: predicting the physical characteristics of the final implementation very early in the design cycle; continually monitoring progress towards the achievement of the design requirements; and driving the physical implementation based on those constraints.
"Customer adoption of hierarchical design flows using IC Wizard is increasing rapidly, not only for early design planning but also for final physical design", continued Helfricht.
"To improve IC Wizard's correlation with the final layout, we have included interactive and automatic power planning and routing".
New functionality added to IC Wizard 2.3 includes: fast, accurate, and comprehensive timing analysis; automatic and interactive timing-driven block placement and shaping; automatic generation of block-level timing models; constraint mapping and exception handling to support unlimited levels of hierarchy; hierarchy management with crossprobing and automatic constraint remapping; automatic slack allocation and budgeting; white space management that balances congestion across hierarchical boundaries; DRC-correct power planning and routing; global route-driven multi-bit bus port placement; and a C-API interface to the IC Wizard hierarchical database.
IC Wizard 2.3 is available immediately on all supported 32 and 64bit platforms.
Pricing begins at $148,000 per year (US list price).
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