ARM still works with Synopsys for EDA support

Published:2012/8/11 4:34:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

According to Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), the company will continue to work with all the major EDA companies after EE Times asked about claimed improvements in performance and power consumption trade-offs claimed for the design of system-chips (SoCs) based on Cortex A-series processor cores made using design tools from Cadence Design Systems Inc.

In an emailed response John Heinlein, vice president of marketing at ARM’s physical IP division, said: "The fundamentals of the POP [processor optimization package] IP platform are independent of EDA tools. With this announcement, for both Synopsys and Cadence tool users we now have scripts and recommendations available so that the user of either tool can achieve a result that is far more optimized and at superior time-to-market than without POP IP.

In addition, the Cadence version of POP IP flow had been greatly improved in usability and pre-verification but did not comment on its performance relative to similar POP IP flow with Synopsys.

In the conclusion made by Heinlein, "Our customers use a range of EDA tool solutions, and one of the benefits of ARM physical IP products is we support customer choice in tool adoption including support for hybrid flows."

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