Animate preview 2024-22b-22.60

Pulsic has released Animate preview 2024-22b-22.60. This solution helps you to visualize the layout so that you can make better decisions earlier in your design flow, reduce costly iterations and optimize your design process.

What's new in 2024.22b - Release Date: Tue, 5 Nov, 2024

Enhancements
ATE-3602 When a schematic change is detected (pending save) the Animate Preview is shown as a gray image.
ATE-3506 When descending the hierarchy in Virtuoso, Animate Preview no longer spawns a new process. The process is shared across descended tabs and windows. The process remains active until the last window for the session is closed. Additionally, the hierarchy changes are reflected in the selected hierarchy inside the Animate Customize GUI. Selection at the lower levels is not updated between Virtuoso and Animate Preview.
ATE-3434 Animate Preview GUI now loads dark gray mode if env var CDS_STYLE_THEME=DARKGRAY is set.
ATE-3614 Animate now applies pattern routing to mosfet columns.
ATE-3550 The constraint level minimum is now smallest dummy. When setting constraint level dummy sizes, Animate attempts to produce the best possible solution for length and width.
Resolved Issues
ATE-3645 Fixed tech overrides and incremental techs. They are now capable of handling equivalent layers, and other layer properties.
ATE-3643 Fixed a bug in max layout height/width design constraints.
ATE-3626 Match arrays, where the power down device is a remastered instance, now generate dummies for end of rows.

Animate is a revolutionary new automated Analog layout system that produces multiple, high-quality, fully routed layouts in minutes from an OpenAccess schematic. Built-in automatic constraint recognition recognizes the designer’s intent and automatically creates structures such as common centroid devices for diff pairs, current mirrors, etc. Its novel and unique multithreaded PolyMorphic layout technology concurrently generates optimal layouts which can then be extracted to generate early parasitics to explore design options in a fraction of the time it would take manually.

Getting Started with Animate Preview


Pulsic is an electronic design automation (EDA) company focusing on Precision Design Automation and offering production-proven floorplanning, placement, and routing software solutions for extreme design challenges at advanced nodes. Complementary to existing design flows, Pulsic technology delivers hand-crafted quality, faster than manual design or general-purpose software solutions. Founded in January 2000, Pulsic is a privately held company headquartered in Bristol, UK. Pulsic’s customers make up leading semiconductor companies around the world.

Owner: Pulsic
Product Name: Animate preview
Version: 2024-22b-22.60
Supported Architectures: x86_64
Website Home Page : https://pulsic.com/
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Linux (Test it on CentOS 7) *
Software Prerequisites: Cadence Virtuoso IC6.1.6, IC6.1.7 or IC6.1.8
Size: 363.9 mb