Chip design software provider Magma Design Automation has released Talus 1.1, a new RTL-to-GDSII chip implementation system.
Talus 1.1, which utilises the new Talus COre technology, reportedly offers significant improvements in routing, optimisation and runtime.
NVIDIA has participated in the beta testing of the Talus 1.1 release and, based on the positive results of the testing and improved flow performance, the company has deployed Talus 1.1 to its production design projects.
Patrick Sproule, manager of VLSI Design at NVIDIA, said: We have recently upgraded to Talus 1.1 in our production environment based on significant improvements in the core algorithms, flow convergence and the overall usability. In particular, the improvements in runtime, timing convergence and ECO routing have improved our throughput and quality of results.
Magma said that existing routing systems perform optimisation sequentially before and after place and route and focus only on layout-oriented routing factors. But Talus focuses concurrently on timing and layout-driven metrics during routing.
For changing reference flows for specific applications, Talus 1.1 introduced the Talus Flow Manager which includes reference flows for RTL-to-GDSII, multi-Vdd, low-power design and high-performance design. Talus Flow Manager introduces a new visual analysis environment, TalusVisual Volcano that presents all design and analysis data via a common display.
