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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: DesignWare Library
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 July 2006
Library reduces delay in IC designs
Synopsys expands DesignWare Library with more than 20 new IP components.
Synopsys, a world leader in semiconductor design software, has announced that it has expanded its DesignWare Library intellectual property (IP) by adding more than 20 new components The additions include 10 floating point operations and four complex datapath functions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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When used with Synopsys Design Compiler synthesis tool, DesignWare Library yields an average reduction of 6% in area and 10% in delay for designs with 20% or greater datapath content.
These improvements help reduce design time and risk and improve quality of results (QoR), helping ensure predictable success for complex systems-on-chip (SoC) designs.
New datapath components added to the DesignWare Library, including the floating point family and functions such as blend and saturate, are particularly important because the percentage of datapath content is steadily rising for most computationally intensive designs.
In chips for graphics and multimedia processor applications, greater than 50 percent of the die area is devoted to datapath.
The new floating point operations are designed for datapath optimisation in these important markets.
The DesignWare Library datapath optimisations occur automatically within Synopsys Design Compiler RTL synthesis and concurrently with other logic optimisations, and use the same timing engine to take advantage of the full timing context of the surrounding logic.
Correct results can be easily verified using Synopsys Formality equivalency checking tool.
"DesignWare Library datapath optimisations give our customers better QoR with every new release," said Guri Stark, vice president of Marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys.
"The significant additions of more than 20 new datapath components, such as the floating point sum3, enable customers in computationally intensive markets such as graphics and multimedia to achieve higher accuracy while reducing design area".
"More than 25,000 DesignWare Library users can now access this new IP within their existing synthesis flow".
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