Siemens recently announced that the latest version of its Aprisa™ physical design solution is now available. Aprisa 21.R1 brings extensive advancements in performance and technology, including significant improvements in runtime reduction and memory requirements. For customers, these enhancements can result in lower development costs and shorter time-to-market.
The technology advancements available in Aprisa 21.R1 underscore Siemens’ commitment to delivering best-in-class integrated circuit (IC) solutions to its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) customers. Since completing its acquisition of the Aprisa portfolio in December 2020, Siemens has more than doubled Aprisa’s R&D team as part of a significant investment in the Aprisa technology portfolio.
The latest release targets advanced technology nodes and includes the following milestones and highlights:
-Average runtime reduction of 30 percent compared to the previous release and up to 2x shorter runtimes for larger, more sophisticated designs.
‑Improvements to all major place-and-route engines, from placement optimization to clock tree synthesis (CTS) and route optimization to timing analysis.
‑The benefits of these performance improvements can be observed in almost all IC designs, especially large designs with complicated multi-corner multi-mode (MCMM) characteristics.
‑In these challenging designs, Aprisa has been shown to run twice as fast as the previous generation.
‑Up to 60 percent less memory: Compared to the previous generation, Aprisa has reduced average peak memory requirements at full throughput by 30 percent for large designs and up to 60 percent for complex designs.
This higher efficiency enables even larger designs with complicated MCMM to be completed on servers with lower RAM capacities.6nm/5nm/4nm Design Enablement: Siemens has worked with leading semiconductor fabs during development to ensure Aprisa is compatible with advanced nodes. Aprisa is fully certified for 6nm processes and Siemens has implemented all necessary design guidelines and features for design enablement of 5nm and 4nm nodes. Final certifications are underway in collaboration with the world’s leading foundry partners. Enhanced Multi-Power Domain (MPD) Support. The enhanced features significantly increase the flexibility and completeness of MPD support, which is critical for ultra-low power designs.
“This new release reaffirms Siemens’ commitment to providing our EDA customers with absolutely world-class physical design technology. With Aprisa 21.R1, our customers can work more efficiently with larger and more sophisticated designs than ever before.”
- Inki Hong, Department Manager
