Olympus-SoC place-and-route platform addresses multi-voltage design challenges.(INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATORS)

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Mentor Graphics Corp. has launched the Olympus-SoC platform, its latest place-and-route solution that enables low power IC implementation and is targeted for advanced technology processes. Featuring production-proven design-for-variability architecture that natively optimizes for variations in design modes, process corners and manufacturing, the Olympus-SoC provides customers two to three times faster design closure times, as well as up to 30 percent power savings versus traditional solutions.

The Olympus-SoC low power place-and-route platform includes a flexible architecture for automated multi-voltage design flow, and advanced techniques for power reduction in complex clock trees. It also includes concurrent optimization of leakage and dynamic power, timing and signal integrity across multi-corner multi-mode (MCMM) ...