the difference between SOC enconter and cadence virtuoso ???

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the difference between SOC enconter and cadence virtuoso ???
 

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

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.
 
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