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Synplify Premier

Synplicity — October 2006

Synplify Premier

Graph-based physical synthesis

  • The essence of the graph-based approach is that pre-existing wires, switches, and placement sites used for routing an FPGA can be represented as a detailed routing resource graph
  • The notion of distance then changes to a measure of delay and availability of wires
  • Graph-based physical synthesis technology merges optimization, placement, and routing to generate a fully placed and physically optimized netlist, providing rapid timing closure and a 5 percent to 20 percent timing improvement
  • Automatically moving registers within combinatorial logic in order to balance timing delay and improve circuit performance up to an additional 20 percent Quality of Results
  • Simulator-like visibility into a live FPGA
  • Provides a rapid method of finding functional errors in FPGA designs by providing simulator-like visibility into operating FPGA hardware
  • Integrated debugging software, based upon technology from the Identify product, allows designers to annotate signals and conditions they want to monitor directly in their RTL code

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