Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Monterey Design Systems | Subject: Sonar 2.1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 May 2002
Top speed and
accuracy for physical prototyper
Monterey Design Systems has upgraded its Sonar physical prototyper, and claims it is now the fastest and most accurate physical prototyper available
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Monterey Design Systems has upgraded Sonar, the physical prototyper within its System-Driven Physical Design solution, and claims it is now the fastest and most accurate physical prototyper available. Release 2.1 also enhances the interoperability of Sonar with leading implementation tools from other EDA vendors.
"By adding detailed gate-level placement capability in Sonar 2.1, we've made it possible for users of non-Monterey tools to apply the physical synthesis, prototyping, and early sign-off capabilities of Sonar within their existing design flows", said Wolfgang Helfricht, product marketing director at Monterey.
"We've also further improved the speed of Sonar.
On a flat five million gate customer design, Sonar 2.1 produced a physical prototype in under 5 hours - this is five times faster than Sonar 2.0".
Sonar can produce an accurate physical prototype in less than 4% of the time it takes to fully place and route a large chip.
Other prototyping tools on the market offer, at best, a 5x increase in speed.
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Sonar produces fast feedback on all timing, area, and power requirements, enabling design teams to quickly reach design closure and sign off for final implementation.
When producing final detailed placement, Sonar employs its built-in physical synthesis engine that includes logic restructuring, technology mapping, cell sizing, buffer insertion, and post-placement optimisation.
Sonar outputs a ready-to-route physical implementation that includes fully implemented power and synthesised clock networks.
By combining detailed placement with simultaneous physical synthesis, power routing, and clock tree synthesis, Sonar produces detailed placement that is completely finished and ready for routing - unlike other prototyping and physical synthesis tools on the market.
Version 2.1 extends Sonar's capabilities beyond creating physical prototypes.
By producing a fully placed, ready-to-route implementation, Sonar enables designers to hand off the design for final physical implementation with full confidence that it will meet all design requirements.
New functionality added to Sonar 2.1 includes: an increase in capacity up to five million gates; faster physical prototyping; gates-to-gates physical synthesis, combining physical optimisation with physical prototyping to eliminate iterations and produce a ready-to-route detailed placement of all standard cells and blocks; automatic and interactive post placement logic optimisation with cell sizing and buffering; a fully implemented power network, including detailed routing of power wires; clock tree synthesis with or without useful skew option, including detailed routing of clock wires; enhanced IR drop analysis enables accurate analysis and fine-tuning of power networks; and optimisation for low-power-leakage cells.
Sonar 2.1 is available immediately on all supported 32 and 64bit platforms.
Pricing begins at $105,000 per year (US list price).
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