FE is not just a floorplan tools
hi, everyone:
FE is not just a floorplan tools. Actually it does a lot:
1) final legal placement with logic group constraints
2) trail route, it's a detail route, just skip the search & repair
3) final power struct. design and power route.
4) IPO
5) CTS
6) fast 2.5D RC extraction (1M gatecountes runs at several seconds)
7) IR drop analysis
8) integrated DC & STA
9) support hier. design:
a) partition
b) b-pin optimize based on trail route
c) hier. clock tree synthesis
and the most important is it runs so fast! for my 5M design, I can run 2~3 iterations in one day! the best tools I have seen.