Imagination uses IC Compiler II for its ray tracing IP

The long-standing strategic collaboration between Synopsys and Imagination has played a key role in the development of IC Compiler II, and its deployment within Imagination. Imagination's IMGworks Platform IP Group has already successfully used IC Compiler II as part of the design flow for its PowerVR Rogue family of industry-leading GPU IP cores, seeing a substantial acceleration in its design-planning flow compared to the previous production environment. 

Launched last year, IC Compiler II is the successor to IC Compiler, a place and route solution for advanced design across both established and emerging nodes. IC Compiler II is a modern place and route system designed and built from the ground up for speed to deliver an overall 10 times improvement in designer throughput and productivity. IC Compiler II was built to deliver a major leap forward in physical design throughput and productivity across all process nodes. Its natively architected multi-everything infrastructure and multicore technology enables ultra-high-capacity design planning capabilities and also serves as a scalable foundation for its unique, patented clocking technology and advanced global, analytical design closure techniques which deliver quality-of-results and fastest time-to-market. With high levels of automation, fast user feedback, incremental and convergent engines, IC Compiler II helps manage the many complexities of design planning and implementation. Through these industry-first innovations, IC Compiler II is offering a world of new opportunities by delivering five times faster runtime along with half the iterations required to achieve the target performance, together proving a groundbreaking 10 times increase in design throughput.

"Our close collaboration with Synopsys since the early release of IC Compiler II has had a significant impact on how we are developing and delivering our Design Optimization Kits for our latest PowerVR, MIPS and Ensigma IP cores," said Mark Dunn, Executive Vice President, IMGworks Platform IP Group, Imagination. "Using IC Compiler II is enabling us to offer more effective design flows and services to help our mutual customers designing complex SoCs with our broad IP portfolio."

"Imagination Technologies has been a key partner for Synopsys from the early release of IC Compiler II," commented Bijan Kiani, Vice President, Design Group, Synopsys. "Our partners and mutual customers are benefiting from the game-changing aspects of IC Compiler II, not only to enhance their internal flows but also to deliver highly differentiated products to the market, demonstrating the transformational nature of this product."