( ESNUG 442 Item 7 ) -------------------------------------------- [03/24/05]
Subject: ( SNUG 04 #12 ) No Thank You, Mentor Calibre; I Prefer Hercules
> As far as dollars are concerned, the DRC/LVS market is still a three way
> race. That is, no one tool dominates this niche.
>
> Dataquest FY 2002 DRC/LVS Market (in $ Millions)
>
> Mentor Calibre #################################### $54.5 (42%)
> Cadence Assura ############################# $44.1 (34%)
> Synopsys Hercules #################### $29.8 (23%)
> others # $1.3 (1%)
>
> But when you talk to the actual end-users of DRC/LVS tools, they're
> either neutral or strongly in favor of Mentor Calibre.
From: Mahesh Kondajji <mkondajj=user domain=idt spot calm>
Hi John,
Reading the posts on your website, I'd like to share my experience with
Hercules (2003.12-sp1). We have been using Hercules for a number of years
now and like the versatility we get from it's LVS comparison options and
it's debugging capability. Runtimes have improved significantly from
2000.4 to 2003.12 release of Hercules. Single CPU speedup is on average
2x compared to 2000.4 version of Hercules. (Using distributed processing,
we ran a larger design using 4 processors and got a 3x runtime improvement
over a single CPU run.) We also use Star-RCXT and like the integration
provided between Hercules and Star-RCXT.
Overall we are quite satisfied with the performance of Hercules.
- Mahesh Kondajji
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. Santa Clara, CA
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