Design aid allows for small, high quality hearing aid ICs

To achieve these goals, Oticon has widely deployed Design Compiler Graphical's congestion optimisations and MCMM synthesis technologies and is realising lower leakage, faster design performance and a highly convergent design flow, shortening schedules by weeks.

Design Compiler Graphical addresses challenging design requirements at both established and emerging process nodes. It provides designers with visualisation of congested circuit regions and allows them to perform specialised synthesis optimisations to minimise congestion in these areas. Additionally, optimisation technologies monotonically reduce design area and leakage power by an average of 15% while maintaining timing QoR.

These capabilities, in conjunction with MCMM synthesis and shared physical technologies with Synopsys' IC Compiler place and route solution, enable customers to achieve the best timing, area, power and routability QoR, reduce design iterations and deliver their products to market faster.

"Meeting aggressive power and area budgets within tight schedules is of primary importance for hearing solutions ICs," said Mogens Isager, Lead Developer, Physical IC Design, Oticon. "With Design Compiler Graphical's advanced congestion and MCMM optimisations, we are seeing 20% less congestion in high-density cell areas, improved design frequency, lower leakage power and faster place-and-route runtimes, which enable us to meet all our design goals and save time. Design Compiler Graphical is now a standard component of our design flow."

Bijan Kiani, Vice President of Marketing, Design Group, Synopsys, added: "Market leaders, such as Oticon, who differentiate their products by minimising power and area while maximising performance, rely on Design Compiler Graphical to achieve aggressive design objectives within tight schedules. Design Compiler Graphical's innovative synthesis technologies and tight links with the Galaxy Design Platform enable our customers to accelerate delivery of industry-leading products to their target markets."