the difference between SOC enconter and cadence virtuoso ???

[mohamed.hagag]

the difference between SOC enconter and cadence virtuoso ???

 

[mvaseem]

The Cadence SOC Encounter is targeted for RTL to GDSII flow where you start your design with HDLs/SystemC and synthesize to generate/simulate gate level netlist, do auto place & route, to DFM and generate GDSII. This flow always has presence of standard cells to enable all the stuff.

The virtuoso on other hand is targeted for custom design (mainly Analog/RF design) which uses spice, s-param based models for simulation. Because of complexities of Analog, this flow is not as automated as Encounter.

 

[mohamed.hagag]

ok thanks, what is the difference between IC compiler and SOC Encounter????

 

[mvaseem]

IC compiler is a place & route tool from Synopsis, which works in conjunction with design compiler (DC for synthesis).
SOC Encounter is a platform from Cadence for RTL to GSDII flow which uses RTL compiler (RC for synthesis).
Ultimately both are doing same thing by different EDA vendors.