Today's nanometer design geometries put tremendous pressure on design teams to maintain advanced design flows to achieve any satisfactory level of predictability and productivity in the chip design process. Timing closure remains the dominant challenge, but timing is further complicated with the effects of very deep sub-micron (VDSM) processes in the form of signal integrity, power consumption, manufacturability and testability. Design flows that were stretched to their limits to produce 130 or even 90 nanometer designs may not work at all at 65 or 45 nanometers without major enhancements.

Extensive experience with advanced designs, expertise with Synopsys' Galaxy™ and Discovery™ platforms, and significant investment in building and maintaining leading-edge flows in our own design centers make Synopsys Professional Services uniquely capable of helping you optimize your design flow for the challenges of implementing and verifying nanometer ASICs. And now, with the availability of the Lynx Design System, you can deploy a complete and tapeout-proven design flow that helps you addresses both design- and project-related bottlenecks to improve your team's productivity and tapeout predictability.

Flow Optimization Services Highlights
Your design needs are specific; so are our services. From a production-ready design environment to specialized sub-flows that address specific VDSM issues such as power optimization, signal integrity, test and functional verification, our consultants will develop and deploy solutions proven in silicon. And since Synopsys co-developed the reference flows for many of the leading IP providers and foundries such as ARM, TSMC, IBM, Chartered, Samsung Common Platform, we are the natural choice to customize and deploy them into your production design environment.

Because we're Synopsys, we're continually monitoring new tool releases and applying their most advanced features to the design flows employed in our own IC design centers as well as at our leading customers. That enables you to take advantage of the updates and enhancements we are continuously making to our internal design environment, as well as our consultants' experience helping some of the industry's premier design organizations implement their leading-edge flows.

Whether you're at the beginning or in the middle of your design project, whether you need a minor upgrade to your flow or a complete design environment to address a new nanometer design node, Synopsys Professional Services will help you eliminate the bottlenecks that impact your design productivity.

Our Flow Optimization services include:

• Assessment of your existing design flow and environment
• Implementing production-ready sub-flows for project-specific challenges (e.g., timing, SI, low power, design-for-test)
• Deploying complete design flows to address new technology (i.e., 130nm, 90nm, 65nm) or ASIC-to-COT migrations
• Instantiating customer-specific implementation methodologies (e.g., hierarchical or "virtual flat" design)
• Incorporating new verification methods (such as assertions, functional coverage, and testbench automation) into existing environment
• Validation of new a new flow or sub-flow with a "pipe-cleaner" design and/or test chip
• Provide services to customize the Lynx Design System for customer-specific design environment, methodologies and process nodes

To get more information on how we can customize our services for you,  please contact us or call your local sales representative