Cloud-ready physical signoff solution


Key Benefits 

  •  Flexible cloud-ready platform provides elastic and flexible compute environment

  •  Massively parallel architecture provides unprecedented speed and capacity

  •  Gigascale processing dramatically reduces full-chip physical verification runtimes

  •  Near-linear scalability across 100s of CPUs enables predictable runtimes

  •  Efficient use of CPU resources regardless of machine configuration and physical location
 
  •  Low transition cost using existing foundry-certified rule decks

  •  Native compatibility with Virtuoso® custom and the Innovus™ Implementation
     System platforms


With the exponential increase in design rule check (DRC) complexity at advanced nodes, existing
DRC solutions haven’t been able to support the turnaround requirements needed to ensure design
schedules are met. Current DRC turnaround time takes several days using 64 CPUs, which is the
optimal configuration for existing tools. Adding more CPUs does not improve the turnaround time
because of the poor scalability of the current tools. At advanced nodes, DRC signoff cannot be run
overnight, and even breaking up the deck and running sub-decks in parallel cannot meet the overnight
runtime that critical projects need. 

Current DRC turnaround time can take several days. Adding even more CPUs does not improve the turnaround time because the tool scalability falls short

The Cadence® Pegasus® Verification System is a cloud-ready physical verification signoff solution,
which enables engineers to deliver advanced-node integrated circuits (ICs) to market faster. The
groundbreaking technology delivers up to 10X improved performance on DRC runs and reduces
turnaround time from days to hours. The Pegasus system’s innovative architecture and native cloud
processing provides an elastic and flexible computing environment. Customers can now achieve
complete full-chip signoff DRC on advanced-node designs in a matter of hours, helping designers
deliver products to market faster, or easily run multiple DRC signoff iterations, if needed, at the
time of tapeout.

Using the Pegasus system, jobs that previously ran for days can be completed in just a few hours, and offer predictable DRC run times with near-linear scalability

The Pegasus system provides a massively parallel architecture. It is the first solution to combine a
pipelined infrastructure with stream processing delivering near-linear scalability across 100s of CPUs.
The Pegasus system’s gigascale technology enables full-chip signoff DRC in just a few hours versus
days. As many designs continue to grow in complexity, the Pegasus system can scale to meet
customers’ stringent time-to-market requirements.