TimeCraft and TimeCraft-CM Picked for Great Performance, Rich Features, and Proven Quality
“We have adopted Incentia’s TimeCraft and TimeCraft-CM as our static timing analysis and timing constraint management software in our 90 nm design flow,” said Chan Lee, VP of VLSI at Ambarella. “TimeCraft demonstrated itself as an excellent STA tool through its rich features, great performance and quality. TimeCraft-CM provided capabilities for checking, qualifying, validating, and debugging timing constraints.”
“Incentia’s timing analysis and constraint management software continues to demonstrate its advantages and success at customer sites,” said Ihao Chen, President and CEO of Incentia. “We are pleased that our TimeCraft and TimeCraft-CM software met Ambarella’s stringent design requirements and greatly improved their productivity.”
About Incentia’s Static Timing Analyzer and Constraint Management Software
TimeCraft
TimeCraft is a full-chip, gate-level static timing analyzer (STA) for timing sign-off. It is the fastest STA available. Its rich features, including comprehensive timing checking and reports, a built-in delay calculator, multiple supply voltage analysis, multi-task capability for multi-corner and multi-mode analysis, and advanced PLL handing, enable analysis on a large variety of design styles. TimeCraft has demonstrated unparalleled advantages in runtime and capacity that dramatically reduce total timing verification turnaround time.
TimeCraft also offers an advanced OCV feature that provides an effective solution to addressing the effects of statistical on-chip process variations. Traditional OCV uses a constant derating factor and may impose unnecessary performance penalties on nanometer designs. These penalties include reduced performance, larger die sizes, and longer design cycles. TimeCraft’s advanced OCV uses variable derating factors based on the logic level and physical location to select the optimal derating factor for each timing path. This results in fewer timing violations, which allows design teams to rapidly achieve timing closure. The native engine-based implementation approach is easy to use and delivers unparalleled performance in runtime and memory usage.
TimeCraft-CM Incentia’s Constraint Manager, TimeCraft-CM, consists of a constraint checker, a qualified SDC (Synopsys Design Constraint) writer, and a constraint debugger. The constraint checker checks constraint files for completeness, correctness, and conflicts. It also eliminates redundant constraints. The SDC writer then produces a set of optimized constraints. The constraint debugger allows designers to identify the optimal timing exceptions in complex environments on the fly. These capabilities provide an effective and easy-to-use mechanism to purify and generate qualified constraints and thus greatly shorten total constraint management and timing verification turnaround time.
About Ambarella Inc.
Ambarella is the technology leader in low power, video and image processing semiconductors. Ambarella’s products are helping to define a new class of hybrid digital cameras that bring consumers unmatched high definition video and digital images together in one device. The company’s patent-pending system-on-chip (SoC) platform integrates every critical system function and offers customers the most cost-effective solution while delivering the complete high definition experience. Ambarella is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with offices in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The company was founded in 2004 by a seasoned management team with a rich heritage of designing breakthrough semiconductor products. More information can be found at www.ambarella.com.
About Incentia
Incentia Design Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced timing and synthesis software that addresses the stringent requirements of runtime, design capacity, timing, area, design-for-testability power consumption and signal integrity for multi-million-gate semiconductor designs. The company’s products are in use at leading fabless IC design, systems, semiconductor and design service companies and have successfully been used to tape out numerous designs in different design applications, such as communications, networking, wireless, chip-sets, consumer electronics, and multi-media. Incentia has offices in Santa Clara, California and Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, as well as distributors in Japan, China, Korea, India and Israel. For more information, please visit www.incentia.com, email Email Contact or call 408-727-8988.
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