Pinpoint Collaboration & Analysis Tool
The globalization of semiconductor design is requiring design teams to reinvent the way that they collaborate. Email, screenshots, and “throwing the design over the wall” are no longer effective means of communication between designers. Intelligent ways of sharing design data are needed to facilitate collaboration amongst members of globally dispersed design teams. Designers need “Instant ON” access to the latest design data to make informed design decisions, without the need to invoke expensive design tools and wait for the latest version of a design to load. RTL designers and physical designers need to be able to communicate effectively with each other without having to be experts in each other’s design domains or design tools.
Dassault Systemes’ Pinpoint technology provides a level of Design Intelligence that has been missing from semiconductor design flows. With Pinpoint designers are able to:
- Have instant access to latest design data, including timing, power, layout, log files, reports, and more, without having to invoke physical design tools.
- View that data via an intuitive web enabled common platform for collaboration across sites and between RTL and physical designers.
- Display full chip simultaneous visualizations of relevant timing, power, congestion, cell views, and physical layout.
With Pinpoint, your design teams will have a platform to facilitate engineering decisions, drive design reviews, identify trends and issues early, and facilitate collaboration amongst each other.
so let’s review the reasons why this is useful.
For Design Managers, It improves team efficiency, increases your visibility into the data and lets you know you’re almost done.
Team Efficiency – Instant access to all data during design review meetings
Visibility Into Design Data – from summary level to low-level detail with a click
OBJECTIVE status of the design – block-level or full-chip
Historical Metrics Database – trending, converging or not
For Engineers, it helps improve communication with peers, provides a visual cockpit for path debug, and enables experiment comparisons.
Collaboration w/peers worldwide
Common communication platform for RTL and physical designers
Easy/Complete Experiment Comparison
Pinpoint helps bring clarity to physical design teams in the midst of tape out. Helping them make better decisions, and improve their performance as a team.
Testimony: reduction of 25% design cycle time
