PrimeTime Delivers Productivity Boost

Venice, Florida — Synopsys, Inc. announced that the 2007.12 release of its PrimeTime® suite has improved performance for both static timing and signal integrity analysis. Broad improvements in design data reading and linking, intelligent disk caching, incremental timing updates and fine tuning of algorithms have resulted in significant runtime improvements and reduction of memory utilization over the 2006.12 release while maintaining golden signoff accuracy. These performance improvements have been confirmed on a variety of designs ranging in size from 1 million to 40 million instances.

Synopsys will deliver a tutorial at the Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) San Jose 2008 event covering further techniques for reducing runtimes beyond the out-of-the-box performance improvement of the PrimeTime 2007.12 release. SNUG San Jose 2008 will take place from March 31 through April 2, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.