MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Close collaboration on technology enablement unlocks optimal
PPA potential of GLOBALFOUNDRIES® 12LP and 12LP+ (12nm
FinFET) platforms and 22FDX® (22nm FD-SOI)
platforms
- Targeted innovations in Fusion Compiler deliver up to 18
percent better performance, power and area (PPA) and 2X faster
time-to-results on GLOBALFOUNDRIES platforms
- Fusion Compiler, with integrated PrimeTime®
voltage-scaling technology and StarRC™ signoff extraction, enables
an optimized solution for adaptive-body biasing (ABB), available on
FD-SOI based platforms
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its
latest collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF®) to drive
productivity and power, performance, and area (PPA) enhancements
for mutual customers deploying the Synopsys Fusion
Compiler™ RTL-to GDSII product – the industry's only
single data model and golden-signoff enabled implementation
solution. This collaboration will enable the fast-tracking of
next-generation, market-shaping products in verticals such as
aerospace and defense, automotive, data center, IoT and mobile on
GF's feature-rich platforms.
This expanded partnership – leveraging Fusion Compiler's
latest, advanced technologies – enhances platform-specific
gains and speeds up the delivery of highly optimized and targeted
design-implementation methodologies for mutual customers on GF's
12LP and 12LP+ (12nm FinFET) platforms and 22FDX (22nm FD-SOI)
platforms. This partnership also expands to support unique platform
requirements, including the FD-SOI specific, adaptive-body biasing
(ABB) and forward-biasing design flows. By leveraging the fusion of
StarRC signoff extraction and PrimeTime's smart voltage-scaling
technology for both delay and variation analysis, Fusion Compiler's
full-flow optimization is enabled to maximize the power-efficiency
gains available through this advanced platform technology.
"The growing demand for our differentiated platforms and
specialty solutions, optimized for applications across several
high-potential growth markets, requires flows that can efficiently
deliver optimal PPA and address today's design complexity and
tight schedules," said Richard
Trihy, vice president of Design Enablement at GF. "We are
pleased to deepen our partnership with Synopsys and offer this
Fusion Compiler based flow, with its integrated RTL-to-GDSII
implementation, to customers who are designing on our best-in-class
12LP, 12LP+, and 22FDX solutions."
The Fusion Compiler solution is uniquely architected to enable
design teams to achieve the optimal levels of PPA in the most
convergent manner and ensure the fastest and most predictable time
to results (TTR). Fusion Compiler has been built from the ground up
around a unified, highly-scalable data model; is unique in
deploying a common, full-flow, RTL-to-GDSII optimization framework;
and further differentiates itself by comprising a single analysis
backbone, leveraging technology from Synopsys' industry-leading,
golden-signoff products. These key technology lynchpins provide the
optimum convergence and signoff correlation of critical PPA metrics
that are optimized accurately and effectively throughout the entire
design flow. Fusion Compiler provides the leading SoC
design-implementation platform to manage growing design challenges
across the industry, where process technology, design
implementation, and signoff go hand in hand.
"Across the broad semiconductor industry, Fusion Compiler is
experiencing unprecedented adoption by the many leaders and market
shapers who have aggressively deployed the solution to realize the
industry's most complex and sought-after SoCs," said Charles Matar, senior vice president of System
Solutions and Ecosystem Enablement in the Design Group at Synopsys.
"Our work with GLOBALFOUNDRIES promises to bring the key benefits
of Fusion Compiler's unique architecture – best-in-class full-flow
PPA and fastest time-to-results – to help our mutual customers
deliver the next generation of market-defining products."
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to
Software™ partner for innovative companies developing
the electronic products and software applications we rely on every
day. As the world's 15th largest software company,
Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic
design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing
its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether
you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced
semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that
require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the
solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure
products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
Simone
Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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