Cadence & Imagination Technologies collaborate

The Genus synthesis solution is able to synthesise a flat full graphics processor overnight, significantly improving design productivity by eliminating manual partitioning effort and avoiding poor timing optimisation on cross-partition boundary paths. Synthesis runs are automatically distributed across multiple machines and CPUs, eliminating the need for manual design partitioning. This distributed processing includes intelligent resource management to ensure that no machine becomes a turnaround time bottleneck, thereby allowing turnaround times to scale linearly well beyond 10m instances without any impact on PPA.

“At Imagination, we regard the ability to perform rapid synthesis as a key enabler for our customers to better explore the design space and achieve the best PPA within ever-shrinking tapeout schedules,” said Tony King-Smith, Executive Vice President of marketing, Imagination. “By working closely with Cadence, we can ensure that our mutual customers benefit fully from using the Genus synthesis solution on our IP core families. The Genus synthesis solution is showing encouraging improvements in turnaround time and PPA in comparative trials with other synthesis tools. Post-synthesis area and timing correlate well through place and route in the Cadence Innovus implementation system.”

“Graphics cores push the limits of synthesis tools for capacity and PPA,” commented Dr. Anirudh Devgan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital and Signoff Group, Cadence. “This collaboration with Imagination Technologies ensures our mutual customers can benefit fully from the dramatic improvement in synthesis throughput offered by the Genus synthesis solution.”