Key Benefits

• Massively parallel architecture for handling large designs and supporting multi-threading on multi-core workstations, as well as distributed processing over networks of computers
• New GigaPlace solver-based placement technology, which is timing, power, and congestion driven with topology-, pin-access-, and color-aware understanding to provide optimal placement, wire length, utilization, and PPA results
• Unique mixed-macro and standard-cell placement capability enabling automated macro locations for ever-increasingly complex floorplans with hundreds of macro cells
• Advanced GigaOpt multi-threaded, layer-aware optimization engine, which is timing and power driven to reduce dynamic and leakage power
• Additional advanced-node technologies, such as via pillars, power integrity-aware placement and optimization, clock skewing for power, continuous congestion monitoring, and optimized routers for handling self-aligned double patterning for better PPA
• Mature hierarchy automation features for large Hierarchical designs like advanced block abstraction, automated partitioning and hierarchical timing closure, along with new floorplan synthesis capabilities
• Innovative machine learning-driven capabilities through the whole implementation flow leading to best PPA results on challenging, high-performance designs