Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Synplicity | Subject: Total Optimization Physical Synthesis
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 June 2001
TOPS: synthesis flow fully automated
Synplicity has highlighted details of a second-generation physical synthesis technology for programmable logic designers, the first such technology in the industry
Continuing its development of innovative physical synthesis technologies, Synplicity has highlighted details of a second-generation physical synthesis technology for programmable logic designers, the first such technology in the industry Termed total optimisation physical synthesis (TOPS), this new technology achieves two fundamental milestones in physical synthesis: the full automation of the physical synthesis flow and the ability to perform precise physical placement of logic
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Physical synthesis is defined as the ability to perform simultaneous placement and logic optimisations based upon physical design information.