To boost productivity and enhance power, performance and area (PPA) of advanced electronic designs, Synopsys, Inc. announced the breakthrough golden signoff ECO solution that addresses lengthy engineering design closure times. The Synopsys PrimeClosure solution combines Synopsys’ leading engineering change order (ECO) signoff solutions, Synopsys PrimeECO and Synopsys Tweaker™ ECO, with breakthrough innovations, delivering the fastest ECO closure times with high capacity and golden Synopsys PrimeTime signoff accuracy. Early customers have achieved up to 45% better timing, up to 10% better power, up to 50% fewer ECO iterations and up to 10x higher design productivity compared to traditional ECO flows.
“Given our focus on large-scale, advanced-node designs in areas such as automotive, data centers, networking and smart devices, fast turnaround time on ECOs is essential to our business success,” said Kenta Sokawa, general manager, Back End Development Division, Global Development Group at Socionext. “The Synopsys PrimeClosure solution reduced our turnaround time by over 5x, used 3x less machine memory and required 5x fewer machine resources. The early results are impressive, and we are excited to collaborate with Synopsys’s to push the envelope on conventional ECO challenges with the aim of achieving over 10x design closure productivity improvement for our large designs.”
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The Synopsys’s PrimeClosure solution is available to early adopters now with general availability targeted for December 2022. For more information, visit: https://www.synopsys.com/implementation-and-signoff/signoff/primeclosure.html.
Accelerating Design Convergence
Application areas like data centers, mobile, automotive, AI and IoT are demanding aggressive PPA targets. Advanced process nodes bring new physical rules and introduce new effects which impact PPA. The enormous size and complexity of deep-submicron designs means that every analysis and ECO optimization run to fix issues takes longer and consumes more compute resources. Handling this large number of violations and driving convergence to reduce it to zero is a big part of the ECO challenge.
The Synopsys’s PrimeClosure solution, with its innovative surgical optimization feature, improves design metrics like PPA, timing, clock network, voltage drop, variation and aging. The solution is tightly integrated with Synopsys’s Fusion Compiler™ RTL-to-GDSII solution and Synopsys PrimeTime static timing analysis solution for golden signoff accuracy, delivering a full flow that accelerates design convergence and time-to-market of large designs.