Cadence Announces Complete Digital and Signoff Reference Flow for Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Series7 GPUs
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Cadence Announces Complete Digital and Signoff Reference Flow for Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Series7 GPUs

Achieved area reduction of up to seven percent and delivered a 2X improvement in turnaround time

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 1, 2016 — (PRNewswire) — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the delivery of a complete digital and signoff reference flow for Imagination Technologies' (IMG.L) PowerVR Series7 graphics processing units (GPUs). Using the integrated Cadence® reference flow, the full synthesis and implementation of 5.5M instances was completed in 2.5 days, which provided more than a 2X turnaround time improvement in comparison with previous Cadence design flows. The new flow also achieved an average area reduction of three percent, while achieving a seven percent area reduction on Imagination's most complex block.

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The simple, single-pass Cadence flow provides designers with guidelines to optimize their PowerVR GPU cores via documentation and scripts that are easy to deploy and support. The flow includes the following Cadence digital and signoff tools:

For more information on the Cadence solutions for the PowerVR reference flow, please visit www.cadence.com/news/imgrefflow

"As a leading graphics technology, PowerVR GPUs are found inside some of the world's most popular products," said Tony King-Smith, EVP marketing at Imagination. "Our customers care deeply about the speed and footprint of our highly scalable GPUs in their production chips. We collaborated with Cadence to help them create this reference flow based on Cadence digital and signoff tools that help our licensees bring to production smaller, faster chips in less time."

"We see a significant opportunity for our joint customers to achieve improved PPA using the new Cadence digital and signoff reference flow on Imagination's PowerVR GPUs," said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital and Signoff Group at Cadence. "By focusing on the complex needs of today's designers, we successfully created an optimal flow for PowerVR that surpasses the results of previous flows and enables our many customers using PowerVR GPUs to bring reliable, innovative designs to market more rapidly."

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