At the Design Automation Conference, which took place in San Francisco in July, Synopsys Inc highlighted the latest release of its Galaxy Implementation Platform, which, the company claims, delivers two-times-faster design implementation and sign-off throughput by leveraging multicore performance and MCMM (multicorner/multimode) technologies. Built-in support for multicore processing across the Galaxy Platform enables engineering teams to boost runtime performance using their servers. In addition, the Galaxy Platform includes new MCMM technology providing improved quality of results and faster design closure.

The 2009 release is the most recent result of an initiative Synopsys announced in March 2008 to deploy parallel, threaded, and other optimized computational technologies. The company now includes multicore technologies in its Design Compiler synthesis, TetraMax ATPG (automatic-test-pattern-generation), IC Compiler place-and-route, IC Validator physical-verification, Star-RCXT (resistance/capacitance-extraction), and PrimeTime static-timing-analysis tools. Click here for more on Synopsys at DAC.