Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: Galaxy Design Platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 February 2003
Complete platform covers advanced IC design
The Galaxy Design Platform is an open, integrated design implementation platform with best-in-class tools, to enable advanced IC design.
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The Galaxy Design Platform is an open, integrated design implementation platform with best-in-class tools, to enable advanced IC design. Anchored by Synopsys' industry-leading IC implementation tools, Galaxy Design Platform will help significantly reduce design times, decrease integration costs and minimise the risks inherent in advanced, complex IC design. Galaxy Design Platform will integrate Synopsys' best-in-class IC implementation tools, including Design Compiler, Astro and PrimeTime.
Galaxy Design Platform will incorporate consistent timing, common libraries, delay calculation, and constraints from RTL all the way to silicon using the common Milkyway database.
In addition, Galaxy offers designers the flexibility to integrate internally developed and third-party tools through Milkyway.
"Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform represents a major step forward in the evolution of electronic design automation", said Aart de Geus, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Synopsys.
"As the design process has become more complex, customers have demanded a single, integrated platform based on best-in-class products.
They have also asked for that platform to be open for the integration of other products.
Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform provides the openness and functionality customers desire in a production-proven environment with the powerful tools needed for advanced IC design".
As designers move to 90nm and below, single point tools can no longer individually solve advanced IC design issues such as timing, signal integrity, multiple voltages, leakage power, design for manufacturing, and design for test.
These complex design challenges must be addressed in a comprehensive manner throughout every tool in the flow using a common database.
In addition, flow integration based on ASCII files is reaching the limits of its scalability.
For customers to achieve their required turnaround times, high-bandwidth data exchange via common and open database APIs has become necessary.
Galaxy Design Platform will provide customers with a more complete, integrated design flow that is flexible and efficient.
"At Agere Systems, we rely on industry-proven EDA solutions when developing our complex systems-on-chip and ASICs for first-pass success", said Jon Fields, Vice President of Design Platforms at Agere Systems.
"We welcome the introduction of Synopsys' design platform and the opening of the Milkyway database through its Milkyway Access Programme.
This will allow us to further enhance our proven world-class design flow for our customers by giving us access to a broader set of tools on a common design platform".
"Artisan Components is the premier provider of physical intellectual property (IP) libraries to many of the world's leading semiconductor foundries, integrated device manufacturers, and IC design teams", said Jim Hogan, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Artisan Components, Inc.
"Customers moving to 90 nanometers and below will require open design platforms to solve their advanced IC design challenges.
Synopsys' open Galaxy Design Platform brings together Synopsys' industry-proven tools and Milkyway database with Artisan's silicon-proven libraries to address these design challenges.
Our ongoing work with Synopsys to address deep submicron design issues in an integrated design flow will result in a complete set of Synopsys tool views and models for our libraries in support of over 1000 Artisan customers.
We congratulate Synopsys on its initiative to open Milkyway to the industry.
This is a majorstep forward in industry-wide EDA tool interoperability to ensure successful delivery of our customers' designs to market".
Synopsys Galaxy Design Platform integration is currently in beta test at customer sites.
Limited customer availability of Galaxy Design Platform will begin in March 2003.
General availability will begin in June 2003.
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