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From: Milan Lazich <milan=user domain=magma-da spot calm>
Subject: Magma Offers 8 Edgy Questions on the Galileo (IC Compiler) News
Hi, John,
Some of the great minds at Magma (mine obviously not among them) came up
with these questions on the Galileo (a.k.a. "IC Compiler") announcement.
- "Does this announcement mean that Synopsys now believes that the
integrated data model approach is the right way to approach the
RTL-GDSII timing closure problem?"
- "Since Galileo apparently claims to have PrimeTime/PrimeTime-SI
built-in, does the customer need to buy PrimeTime/PrimeTime-SI?
If not, why not?"
- "How much of the codebase is really new? Is it a wrapper calling
PhysOpt/Astro/Jupiter 'under the hood'? If there is new code,
how do they plan to stabilize it?"
- "Is Galileo different from Astro & PhysOpt? Did the datamodel need
change? If yes, would that not require a lot of testing? How many
tapeouts has Galileo done so far?"
- "When will Design Compiler be integrated into Galileo so that it
becomes RTL-to-GDSII instead of netlist-to-GDSII?"
- "How many days does a 10-million gate design take from netlist to
GDSII? How about a 20-million gate design?"
- "Will you charge for Galileo or is it a maintenance upgrade?"
And will you End-Of-Life Astro & PhysOpt? Or will you continue selling
those products? For how long?
- Milan Lazich
Magma Design Automation Santa Clara, CA
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