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Tuesday December 2, 2008, PT
Incentia Announces New Release of TimeCraft Timing Analysis Software
2X speedup, 50% Less Memory, and New Advanced Timing Sign-off Features
SANTA CLARA, CA - December 2, 2008 - Incentia Design Systems,
Inc., a technology leader in nanometer timing analysis and design
closure solutions, announced today the availability of the 2008.10
release of its TimeCraft™ timing analysis software. The release
improves runtime and memory usage significantly when compared to its
2007.10 release. In addition, it adds advanced timing analysis features
for nanometer design timing sign-off. TimeCraft has been widely used
and taped out many complex nanometer designs. With this new release,
TimeCraft effectively handles extremely large designs in excess of 50M
gates using technology at 45nm and below.
As technologies continue to shrink and designs continue to grow in
complexity and size, the need for performance improvement in timing
analysis tools is inevitable. The TimeCraft 2008.10 release has
achieved up to 2X runtime speedup and 50% memory usage reduction,
compared to its previous 2007.10 version. The runtime speedup and
memory reduction can be observed in all kinds of analysis flows,
including SDF, SPEF, and advanced on-chip-variation (OCV). Furthermore,
the multi-threaded version of TimeCraft called TimeCraft-MT is now
available to fully utilize the multi-CPU and multi-core in nowadays
machine configurations, and provide another dimension of runtime
improvement. All these efforts significantly reduce total verification
turnaround time and hence ensure your time-to-silicon schedule.
Process variations become significant and cannot be ignored in
nanometer designs. To model process variations, TimeCraft supports both
advanced OCV and statistical static timing analysis (SSTA). The
advanced OCV (aka LOCV) considers random and systematic variations
through level- and location-based OCV. It applies variable derating
factors to different timing paths to eliminate excessive guard banding
imposed by a single constant derating factor. The 2008.10 release
further adds new features, such as various granularity controls to
achieve higher accuracy and flexibility. On the other hand, SSTA
considers variations statistically from cells and interconnects with
sensitivities. TimeCraft-SSTA can take either CCS-VA or S-ECSM library
format, and perform both path-based and block-based analysis and
reports, based on user defined correlations. Its runtime, memory usage,
and accuracy have been significantly improved in the 2008.10 release.
"Our customers have started to deploy the TimeCraft 2008.10
release, and observed performance and memory improvements in line with
our expectation." said Arthur Wei, vice president of operation at
Incentia. "TimeCraft still maintains its leadership position as the
fastest STA on the market with its new release of TimeCraft 2008.10".
Availability
TimeCraft timing analysis software is available for evaluation now on
Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Sun Solaris (32-bit and 64-bit)
platforms.
About Incentia
Incentia Design Systems, Inc. is a leading Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) tool provider of advanced Timing Analysis, Design
Closure, and Logic Synthesis software for multi-million-gate nanometer
designs. Incentia patented technologies provide the fastest Static
Timing Analysis (STA) tool in the market today. Incentia's products are
in use at leading semiconductor, fabless IC design, systems, and design
service companies worldwide and have produced numerous successful
tape-outs in different design application areas, such as
communications, networking, wireless, chip-sets, consumer electronics,
and multi-media. Incentia has offices in Santa Clara, California and
Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, and distributors in Japan, China, India,
Korea, and Israel. For more information, please visit www.incentia.com, email to arthur@incentia.com or call 408-727-8988.
Press Contact:
Arthur Wei, Incentia Design Systems, Inc., 408-727-8988 X120, arthur@incentia.com
TimeCraft is a trademark of Incentia Design Systems, Inc. All
other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective
holders.
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