"The latest release of Encounter platform represents an important development to the members of STARC, because it addresses, in a comprehensive fashion, the challenges inherent in designing for low power and manufacturing, with high productivity," said Nubuyuki Nishiguchi, vice president and general manager of STARC. "This integrated, front-to-back approach creates significant value to leading-edge designers."
A key feature of the latest Encounter platform release is support of the Cadence Low-Power Solution, based on Si2's CPF 1.0 standard. The Cadence Low-Power Solution offers a complete flow across logic design, verification, and implementation. CPF is an industry standard format for specifying power-saving techniques throughout the design process -- enabling teams to share and reuse low-power intelligence.
In addition, the new release of the Encounter platform provides unparalleled design for manufacturing (DFM) support, yield optimization, lithography-aware routing, mixed-signal design using new bus routing capabilities, and critical path simulation using the Virtuoso® UltraSim Full-chip Simulator. The platform also features new power-aware automatic macro placement capability and support for simultaneous multi-mode and multi-corner timing analysis and optimization. The Encounter X Interconnect Option delivers higher quality of silicon (area, power, performance requirements) and cost-savings.
"We continue to make significant improvements in the Encounter platform to lead the industry in advanced low power and 45/65nm designs. The latest developments allow direct benefits to most advanced IC designs," said Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu, corporate vice president, IC Digital and Power Forward at Cadence. "This release packs many major breakthroughs -- holistic advanced low power, DFM, Encounter X Interconnect Option and mixed-signal design -- into a single highly integrated design environment."
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