Cadence releases latest Encounter RTL-to-GDSII flow

Cadence Design Systems recently introduced the latest release of Cadence Encounter RTL-to-GDSII flow for high-performance and giga-scale designs, including those at the latest technology node, 20 nanometers. Rahul Deokar, product management director, said: “We are addressing designer challenges in – high performance design, giga-scale design and advanced node design. The first challenge is the PPA

Cadence’s Encounter and how it matches up to Synopsys’ Galaxy!

Early December 2008, Cadence Design Systems launched the Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System, said to be a configurable digital implementation platform that delivers an incredible scalability with complete support for parallel processing across the design flow. Will it change the fortunes of the struggling EDA industry? EDA industry stats for Q3-08 given at the end