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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: Galaxy and Discovery
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 October 2003
Tools run faster on latest 64bit systems
The key components of Synopsys' Galaxy design and Discovery verification platforms are now available on Intel Itanium 2-based systems running the 64bit Linux operating system.
The key components of Synopsys' Galaxy design and Discovery verification platforms are now available on Intel Itanium 2-based systems running the 64bit Linux operating system Galaxy design and Discovery verification platforms products running on Intel Itanium 2-based systems with Linux will help deliver the high performance and increased capacity engineers need to design and verify large, complex chip designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Key products from Synopsys' Galaxy design and Discovery verification platforms ported to Intel Itanium 2-based platforms include Design Compiler, Astro, Physical Compiler, PrimeTime, the Milkyway design database, Star-RCXT, VCS, Vera and NanoSim.
"We are pleased to see Synopsys' synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, extraction, test and verification solutions on Intel Itanium 2-based systems offering world-class 64bit computing performance", said Guru Bhatia, Director of IT Engineering Computing, Intel Corp.
"Itanium 2-based systems post the performance necessary to enable EDA customers to get their designs to market more quickly and efficiently.
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That performance, coupled with Synopsys' suite of semiconductor design and verification tools, gives a technical advantage to the EDA engineering community to design complex silicon products".
"In order to achieve the capacity we require to verify our latest programmable logic devices, we are running VCS 7.1 on 64bit Linux systems based on the Itanium 2 processor", said Rich Burnley, Director of CAD at Xilinx.
"We adopted VCS because of Synopsys' commitment to leading performance and capacity, which enables us to design and deliver state-of-the-art programmable logic products to customers faster".
"Nvidia designs extremely large chips with 40-80 million transistors of synthesised logic and greater than 100 million transistors in memory", said Dan Smith, director of engineering at Nvidia".
We demand 64bit platforms for sophisticated design tools such as Physical Compiler, PrimeTime and TetraMAX in Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform.
We have seen significant runtime improvements with Itanium 2-based systems that will help advance our complex graphics designs into the next generation".
Synopsys was the first major EDA software company to make its tools available on the Linux open source operating system and is committed to meeting its customers' needs for Linux and Intel Itanium 2-based solutions.
"Today's highly complex, leading-edge designs demand integrated, best-in-class EDA solutions running on advanced hardware", said Rich Goldman, Vice President of Strategic Market Development at Synopsys, Inc".The powerful combination of tools from Synopsys' Galaxy design and Discovery verification platforms and Intel Itanium 2-based systems with 64bit addressing capabilities will help provide the speed and capacity our mutual customers require to deliver the next-generation of system-on-chip designs".
Design Compiler, Physical Compiler, PrimeTime, PathMill, DFT Compiler, Power Compiler, TetraMAX, Milkyway, Astro, Star-RCXT, JupiterXT, Hercules, Formality and NanoSim are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v2.1 running on the Itanium 2 -based systems.
VCS and Vera support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.
2.1 running on the Itanium 2 -based systems is scheduled for limited customer availability in the first quarter of calendar 2004.
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