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DPC - The Datapath Tool

Faster, Smaller, Lower Power


Use DPC to make your datapaths faster, smaller, lower power, easier to route.

Video: Example Use of DPC

3 min annotated demo of P&R results using DPC

The video above illustrates several aspects of the datapath tool, including Auto-placement, schematic generation, and Auto-sizing. (3 min). Note that all DPC events were captured in real time.

DPC side-by-side results

Using DPC, engineers have produced real designs that were 3X faster, 40% smaller, and 40% lower power than their existing place & route design.

This image illustrates typical results achieved when using DPC.


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HOW DPC SOLVES THE POWER/ PERFORMANCE PROBLEM:
  1. Import design data using schematics or Verilog.
  2. Creates custom-like bit-slice placement which reduces congestion and improves routing.
  3. Performs postplacement timing analysis.
  4. Computes critical paths and provides timing information at each node.
  5. Auto-sizes gates based on your constraints (optimizing for timing and power, or power alone).
  6. Modify your design and see the new results very quickly. Iterations are done in minutes – DPC computes 100,000 gates per minute.
  7. Checks for “hot spots” with congestion analysis.
  8. Outputs a DEF placement file for your existing P&R flow.
  9. Verifes timing postroute, and shows results graphically.

Micro Magic's
DPC Datapath Tool

  • Place, route and time 100K gates per minute
  • Regular bit-slice placement reduces congestion and wire length, reducing size and power
  • Gate Auto-sizer automatically improves timing and power
  • Uses all existing standard cell libraries
  • OpenAccess compliant

    DPC Features

  • Up to 300% faster datapath performance, 40% lower power, 40% less area
  • Custom performance wih ASIC effort
  • Quickly builds custom-like datapaths using all existing standard cell libraries
  • DPC includes it's own timing analyzer, or use PrimeTime®
  • Fast - processes 100,000 gates per minute
  • Writes DEF placement information and a Verilot netlist for integration with routers
DPC Incorporates MMI's SUE SoC Design Manager

  • About MMI

    Incorporated in 1995, Micro Magic, Inc. is the industry leader in true 3-dimensional TSV layout tools. Click here for the full story

  • How We Work

    Engineers from Micro Magic meet with your engineers and management, to discuss the best solution to the problem or problems in the chip design. Some issues are smaller, and more easily remedied; some are larger and will require more involvement. Micro Magic's intention is to provide the most efficient solution utilizing your current design flow and our development tools. Our engineers can either do the work off-site, in house, or provide the MMI tool(s) and advice for a plug-n-play augmentation to your existing flow.

  • Points of Interest

    Trying to achieve the performance we needed from commercially-available tools just wasn't working. Over the course of several years, Micro Magic's engineers wound up writing their own tools to help get chips out. Our design services history is unmatched for making tapeout on time. Of course, our clients began to notice that MMI engineers were more efficient, more productive, and started asking about the tools. We responded by making them available to other engineers,and in 1995 the first versions of MAX and SUE were ready for the public..

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    Sunnyvale, CA
    408.414.7647 x202
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