Configure Physical Hierarchy and Virtuoso Floorplanner

Hello,

My name Alex Soyer and I'm the Product Enginneer in charge of the Virtuoso Floorplanner.

I will be more than happy to demo you the Floorplanner and to help you to test it on your own data.

• Does anyone use these tolls on a regular basis for production work? 

We have already customers using the Virtuoso Floorplanner in production IC613 and IC614.

• Is the Floorplanner capable of doing large designs? 

Some of teh customers have large designs.

We have fixed some preformances issues and we are still working on improving teh usability for large designs in current releases.

• Has Encounter completely replaced the Virtuoso floorplanning tools?

Our focus is really different.

The Virtuoso Floorplanner is a custom Floorplanner with Mixed Signal capabilities and schematic driven but not timing driven. We provide a very flexible interface and you can take advantage of all other Virtuoso Tools.

Encounter Floorplanner is for timing driven and netlist driven layout with High Capacity and Perfromance.

BUT we have through Open Access put in place a smooth interface to exchange data between both environments. if you want you can share data easily and use the best of each Floorplanner.

• I'm trying to evaluate CPH and Floorplanner to see if they are valid options for top-down floorplanning, or just a waste of time.

Virtuoso is a hierarchical environment and the Floorplanner is really built to be hierarchical with top-down and bottom-up approches mixed together.If you need help please contact me.

Thanks for evaluating the Virtuoso Floorplanner .

Alex

Hello,

My name Alex Soyer and I'm the Product Enginneer in charge of the Virtuoso Floorplanner.

I will be more than happy to demo you the Floorplanner and to help you to test it on your own data.

• Does anyone use these tolls on a regular basis for production work? 

We have already customers using the Virtuoso Floorplanner in production IC613 and IC614.

• Is the Floorplanner capable of doing large designs? 

Some of teh customers have large designs.

We have fixed some preformances issues and we are still working on improving teh usability for large designs in current releases.

• Has Encounter completely replaced the Virtuoso floorplanning tools?

Our focus is really different.

The Virtuoso Floorplanner is a custom Floorplanner with Mixed Signal capabilities and schematic driven but not timing driven. We provide a very flexible interface and you can take advantage of all other Virtuoso Tools.

Encounter Floorplanner is for timing driven and netlist driven layout with High Capacity and Perfromance.

BUT we have through Open Access put in place a smooth interface to exchange data between both environments. if you want you can share data easily and use the best of each Floorplanner.

• I'm trying to evaluate CPH and Floorplanner to see if they are valid options for top-down floorplanning, or just a waste of time.

Virtuoso is a hierarchical environment and the Floorplanner is really built to be hierarchical with top-down and bottom-up approches mixed together.If you need help please contact me.

Thanks for evaluating the Virtuoso Floorplanner .

Alex