With its combination of breakthrough algorithms, efficient data structures, and modern programming techniques, Encounter RTL Compiler delivers the best speed, area, and power after physical implementation for the most challenging designs. New advanced, , global synthesis technology further improves these results while delivering even faster runtimes. At the core of Encounter RTL Compiler is a break¬through synthesis algorithm—global-focus mapping (GFM). This technique devotes more time to examining the overall solution space to deliver an optimized netlist for meeting your design intent goals throughout physical design.

Encounter RTL Compiler performs multi-objective optimization that simultaneously considers timing, power, and area intent to create logic structures that converge on all these goals in a single pass.

Features/Benefits

• A well-balanced logic structure isolates critical paths, reduces power, area, and congestion in off-critical logic, and enables faster timing closure and design convergence through place-and-route
• Spatial technology eliminates the need for wireload models by modeling physical interconnect at a higher level of abstraction for use in RTL-to-gate optimization
• Encounter RTL Compiler with Physical incorporates Encounter Digital Implementation System silicon virtual prototyping technology into synthesis, providing real physical timing to logic optimi¬zation and analysis
• Reduces power consumption through single-pass multi-Vt optimi¬zation, hierarchical and multi-stage clock gating, true top-down multi-supply voltage exploration and synthesis, and full power shutoff support with the Common Power Format (CPF)
• Shrinks die sizes with multi-objective optimization, which creates smaller logic structures for non–timing-critical regions
• Multi-mode synthesis optimization and analysis accelerates overall turnaround time to design closure for complex chips with multiple functional modes
• Superthreading technology leads to superior runtimes, quicker turnaround times, and faster convergence on design goals
• Superior capacity increases produc¬tivity by enabling chip-level synthesis and eliminating manual partitioning, budgeting, and reassembly
• A built-in design quality analyzer identifies pre-synthesis design issues that may lead to sub-optimal or unintended results
• Easy to adopt—uses standard inputs and outputs so that customers requiring improved quality of silicon (timing, area, and power after wires) can get en route quickly to achieving their design goals