Physical Synthesis Tool Boosts FPGA Performance By 20%

June 7, 2004

In a deal with Magma Design Automation, QuickLogic has added PALACE, the Magma physical synthesis tool for programmable logic devices, to the QuickWorks tool suite for its mWatt Eclipse II and Eclipse FPGA products. PALACE also will support the QuickLogic QuickMIPS family of embedded standard products. It will improve the circuit performance and design-cycle turnaround for the ESP family through a tightly coupled physical and logic synthesis solution as well. With the PALACE software seamlessly integrated into QuickLogic's SPDE design implementation software, a simple pushbutton design flow provides an average of over 20% performance (F_MAX) improvement without manual iterations or floorplanning. Extensive benchmarking has yielded a peak performance improvement over 70%.

QuickLogicwww.quicklogic.comMagma Design Automation Inc.www.magma-da.com

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Dave Bursky

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.