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From: Karl Relton <relton=user domain=agere spot calm>
Subject: Karl Really Likes The New Edit Toolbar In Jupiter-XT 2004.06
Hi, John,
We have been playing with the newer features of Jupiter-XT 2004.03 and
now 2004.06, concentrating on the Virtual Flat Flow that these releases
introduce.
I might get onto the performance of the flow in general some later day,
but it is worth mentioning the high productivity now available for 'manual'
floorplan editing in Jupiter-XT with the new floorplan edit toolbar that
this release has. At last, you can move, align, and space blocks with
simple 'drawing tool' type commands -- something that's been 10 years
overdue in my opinion! 2004.06 is intuitive, easy to use, and can
line up & space things EXACTLY to what you want in a few clicks.
It can do alignment and spacing of both memories from each other, and
also memories from the 'inside edge' of things like core bboxes and plan
group bboxes.
As an example, I had a design with its 354 memory instances distributed
across 8 subchips (plan groups). In the re-birth of this project just
about every instance had changed size slightly, with some instances
swapped for new configurations, a few memories deleted and a few brand
new instances. Add to this the need for floorplan growth in a new I/O
ring and need to shuffle the block sizes, it was potentially a mammoth
task to re-floorplan.
With the 2004.06 fphEditToolbar one person got all the plan groups resized
and all the memories re-placed (shuffled, aligned, spaced correctly from
nearby edges etc.) in just ONE working day. That's an instance per
minute for any management accountants out there. :)
- Karl Relton
Agere Systems Ascot, UK
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