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News Release from: Incentia Design Systems | Subject: TimeCraft
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 April 2006
Software upgrades static timing analysis
TimeCraft software has an advanced on-chip-variation capability for improving the accuracy and efficiency of static timing analysis for 90 and 65nm designs.
Incentia Design Systems has released a new version of its TimeCraft software with an advanced on-chip-variation (OCV) capability for improving the accuracy and efficiency of static timing analysis for 90 and 65nm designs TimeCraft's advanced OCV engine provides both level- and location-based OCV analysis to address the effects of on-chip statistical process variation, which can no longer be ignored in nanometre designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Incentia Design Systems has improved the performance of its TimeCraft full-chip gate-level static timing analyser for multi-million-gate high-performance designs.
Upgrade speeds synthesis and timing software
The latest versions of TimeCraft, DesignCraft and DesignCraft Pro feature improved runtime, capacity and quality, when compared with the 2003.09 release.
It effectively eliminates excessive guard banding, improving timing accuracy and reducing the effort to close timing closure.
The native engine-based implementation approach is easy to use without limitation and delivers the best performance in runtime and memory usage when compared with other available solutions.
"With our new advanced OCV capability, TimeCraft continues to establishes itself as the leader in nanometre timing analysis and signoff", said Arthur Wei, Vice President of Operations at Incentia.
"Its introduction continues our commitment to offer the best-of-the-class timing tools".
Traditional OCV uses a constant derating factor and may impose unnecessary performance penalties on nanometre designs.
These penalties include reduced performance, larger die sizes and longer design cycles.
TimeCraft's advanced OCV uses variable derating factors based on logic level and physical location to select the optimal derating factor for each timing path.
This results in fewer timing violations, and allows design teams to rapidly achieve timing closure.
It also provides an effective alternative to the difficult problem of using statistical analysis to model process variations.
Furthermore, the OCV engine is integrated with TimeCraft to deliver the best analysis performance in runtime and memory usage.
This improves turnaround time and reduces design cycles.
TimeCraft with Advanced OCV is available now for Sun Solaris (32 and 64bit), Linux (32bit and AMD 64bit), and HP (32 and 64bit) platforms.
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