Through direct integration with Verdi Protocol Analyzer, root cause of the offending transactions can be quickly identified.Ģ.5D 5G 7nm AI ANSYS Apple Applied Materials ARM Arteris Atrenta automotive business Cadence EDA eSilicon EUV finFETs GlobalFoundries IBM IMEC Intel IoT IP Lam Research machine learning memory Mentor Mentor Graphics Moore's Law Nvidia NXP OneSpin Solutions Qualcomm Rambus Samsung security SEMI Siemens Siemens EDA software Sonics Synopsys TSMC UMC verification constraints on each metric and have the tool automatically identify violations of these constraints. Protocol performance analysis and debug tools like Verdi Performance Analyzer can help designers easily visualize these important performance metrics, and also set min. Measuring performance entails complex design calculations such as bandwidth/transfer rate per instance/channel, latency for different commands, page-hit/miss scenarios, etc. In order to ensure that the HBM IP is tuned to achieve the desired performance-power balance, both performance and power consumption need to be measured. HBM’s low speed-per-pin and input/output capacitance reduce power consumption and increase power efficiency. It is a JEDEC-defined standard and is integrated with an SoC using a fine-pitch interposer. Currently in its third generation, HBM boasts high-performance while using less power in a substantially smaller form factor than DDR. A case in point is the use of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) technology and controllers. The choice and configuration of SoC components-protocol IP and interconnects, is geared towards maximizing overall SoC performance. If it isn't, set the environment variables again and start over.Ħ- In the schematic window that opens, zoom in around some of the gates and confirm the expected cells are there.SoC performance is a key competitive advantage in the marketplace. When a schematic is generated, the proper symbols should be seen.ġ- Invoke Verdi and compile/load the netlist.Ģ- Open anything in the nSchema window (doesn't matter what scope)ģ- Click the cursor somewhere in nSchema (so it gets selected)ĥ- In the window that opens, confirm the path and the library name are what is expected per the environment variables. Invoke Verdi and compile/load the netlist. Reference all symbol libraries by setting the following two environment variables:Ĩ. Repeat for all standard cell libraries being used.ħ. This creates a symbol library (directory) called foo_u.lib++.Ħ. U: Converts all cell names to upper case In this situation, syn2SymDB would be run as follows: Assume that the component and pin references in the netlist are all in upper case. syn2SymDB provides various options to set the case of the names in the created symbol library. Note: The component and pin names in the symbol library must have the same case as those in the netlist. Run syn2SymDB on the foo.lib file to create the Novas symbol library. Type “syn2SymDB –h” to show the options supported by the syn2SymDB utility.ĥ. A common area where support files for other tools are also placed is recommended.Ĥ. Create a directory to place the symbol libraries.
The following example illustrates how to create a symbol library from an existing Synopsys library foo.lib.Ģ. The syn2SymDB executable is included in the bin/ directory of the Verdi or Debussy installation. The symbol library is created by running the utility, syn2SymDB, on the equivalent Synopsys Liberty (.lib) library. To enable this, a Novas symbol library must be set up for the target cell library. Verdi/Debussy can display gate-level schematics using the proper symbols for the cells used in the gate netlist.