Cadence Innovus Implementation System is Available to Academia

4 Dec 2015 • 1 minute read

To support academia using the latest industry-standard tools, Innovus™ Implementation System has been made available to universities. If you want to use Innovus Implementation System, please contact the Cadence university partner in your region or write an email to academicnetwork@cadence.com. Innovus platform-based Rapid Adaption Kits and iLS courses are also available through Cadence university partners.

The new Cadence® Innovus Implementation System meets designers’ needs by delivering a typical 10% to 20% PPA advantage along with an up to 10X TAT and capacity gain. Providing the industry’s first massively parallel solution, the system can effectively handle blocks as large as 10 million instances or more.

Massively parallel architectures can handle huge designs and take advantage of multi-threading on multi-core workstations, as well as distributed processing over networks of computers
Its new GigaPlace solver-based placement technology is slack-driven and topology-, pin access-, and color-aware to provide optimal pipeline placement, wirelength, utilization, and PPA
An advanced, multi-threaded, layer-aware timing- and power-driven optimization engine reduces dynamic and leakage power
A unique concurrent clock and datapath optimization engine enhances cross-corner variability and boosts performance with reduced power
Next-generation slack-driven routing with track-aware timing optimization addresses signal integrity early on and improves post-route correlation
Full-flow multi-objective technology makes concurrent electrical and physical optimization possible

Since multiple production-proven signoff engines are integrated into the Innovus Implementation System, it was essential to have a simplified user and scripts interface. The system fosters usability by simplifying command naming and aligning common implementation methods across other Cadence digital and signoff tools. The processes of design initialization, database access, command consistency, and metric collection have all been streamlined and simplified. In addition, updated and shared methods have been added to run, define, and deploy reference flows. These updated interfaces and reference flows increase productivity by delivering a familiar interface across core implementation and signoff products.

Learn more about Innovus Implementation System here.

Anton Klotz