Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., announces that Global Foundries has certified the Synopsys design platform for the GF 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) process, ensuring that designers achieve optimized implementation and predictable signoff results using industry-leading digital design tools. This certification leveraged the silicon-proven GF Foundry Reference Flow for the Synopsys design platform, architected to realize the full potential of GF’s 22FDX process. IEEE 1801 (UPF)-driven bias voltage support throughout the flow enables optimal power and performance tradeoff during design implementation.
“The Synopsys tools support 22FDX capabilities such as voltage dependent spacing rules, continuous-diffusion aware placement, and optimal bias tap cell insertion in IC Compiler II,” says Jai Durgam, VP Customer Design Enablement at Global Foundries. “Having a reference flow with certified tools enables our mutual customers to take advantage of the technology differentiation, which offers FinFET-like performance and energy efficiency at a cost comparable to 28-nm planar technologies.”
To certify their process platform with a real-world complex hierarchical design that requires the best performance in the smallest possible area and power budget, GF engineers selected the DesignWare EV61 Embedded Vision Processor with a convolutional neural network (CNN) engine configured for 880 MACs.
DesignWare EV6x Vision Processor IP is a family of fully programmable and configurable vision processors that integrates scalar, vector DSP, and CNN processing units for highly accurate and fast vision processing. Supported by a comprehensive software programming environment, including the ARC MetaWare EV Toolkit, the EV6x Vision Processors offer SoC designers a flexible, power-efficient embedded vision solution for a wide range of automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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