Overview

Analyze and Improve RTL Power, Performance, Area, and Congestion in a Single Cockpit

The Cadence Joules RTL Design Studio is a breakthrough technology aimed at equipping designers with the features needed to arrive at fully optimized RTL prior to implementation handoff. For years, front-end designers have lacked visibility of RTL metrics on power, performance, area, and congestion (PPAC). Now, with the Joules RTL Design Studio, exploration, and prototyping are possible prior to committing the design to the place and route phase. This forward-looking capability is key in producing highly efficient RTL in a shorter timeframe than before.

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Key Benefits

Faster Runtime than a Production Implementation Flow Using the Trusted Cadence Digital Design and Signoff Core Engines

Shorter TAT

Faster runtime compared to full production implementation flow

Increased Productivity

Intelligent feedback and accurate physical prototyping translates into faster and fewer iterations with up to 5X productivity improvements

PPAC Optimization

Up to 25% quality of results (QOR) improvement in RTL

User-Centric Solution

Unified cockpit for physical design feedback for RTL designers

Features

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  • Intelligent debug assistant – PPAC debugger that assists with troubleshooting and provides potential solutions to RTL designers
  • Based on proven engines: Same trusted engines as the Innovus Implementation System, Genus Synthesis Solution, and Joules RTL Power Solution, with additional fine-tuning for QOR and performance tradeoff
  • Lint checker integration – Ability to run lint checkers incrementally and rule out data and setup issues upfront
  • Powerful AI integrations: Integration with generative-AI Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer to explore design space scenarios and the Cadence.AI Generative AI Platform to allow trend and insight analysis across different versions of the RTL or across previous project generations.
  • Unified cockpit: Provides efficient, user-friendly experience, offering physical design feedback, localization and categorization of violations, bottleneck analysis and cross-probing between RTL, schematic, and layout.

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Joules RTL Design Studio: 5X Faster RTL Convergence with 25% Better PPA

Yufeng Luo, corporate vice president of research and development for Cadence’s digital design and implementation products introduces Joules RTL Design Studio. Yufeng discusses how the new tool accelerates RTL design and implementation, unlocks untapped productivity, and provides users with actionable guidance for improved PPA.

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