Pulsic enters `big` digital/ASIC design arena

British EDA company Pulsic Limited has announced the Prelude Physical Design Framework, its new shape-based, ultra-high capacity, high performance IC physical design solution for very large digital/ASIC designs, running into millions of nets and cells. Prelude is said to comprise a physical design framework with ECO placement and routing capabilities, powered by a scalable architecture, using a true distributed computing environment. The new Prelude product line claims to complete the spectrum of design types that Pulsic tools address. Analog, custom, mixed-signal, chip-assembly and smaller digital designs are effectively handled by the Lyric Physical Design Framework. The Prelude Physical Design Framework now closes the loop with its ability to handle large digital designs.Pulsic believes that no commercially-available physical design tools could successfully handle the loading, placement and routing of huge multi-million cell designs until now. A recent customer design containing approximately 370K cell instances, all fully-routed, had a memory footprint of 306MB. This exceeds Pulsic's own target of 1GB of machine memory allocated per 1 million nets/cells, and is said to make Prelude one of a kind.Source: PCBnewsline