Zroute is a brand new router fully integrated into IC Compiler. It was developed from the ground up to take full advantage of the newest multi-core microprocessor architectures and to solve emerging DFM challenges in IC design.

Zroute’s modern architecture incorporates state-of-the-art routing technology, such as native support of soft rules, to enable litho-friendly routing and avoid manufacturing problems. By simultaneously considering the impact of manufacturing rules, as well as timing and other design goals, Zroute delivers high QoR and improved manufacturability. Zroute was developed to take advantage of modern multi-core compute platforms. Utilizing a combination of advanced routing algorithms and multi-threading technology, Zroute has shown a combined speed increase of more than 10X on customer designs running on quad-core machines.

Press Releases

• Synopsys Delivers 10X Speed-up with New IC Compiler Router
• Synopsys Introduces Industry’s First Concurrent Hierarchical Design System with Latest
  IC Compiler Release
• Synopsys IC Compiler Routing Qualifies for TSMC's 45-Nanometer Process

Articles

• IET: The Great Builders
• EDN: Synopsys revamps IC Complier with multi-threaded routing technology
• EE Times: Synopsys unveils new IC compiler router
• SCDsource: Synopsys rolls next generation IC router
• Semiconductor Int'l: Synopsys Unveils Faster Router
• EDA DesignLine: Design Challenges Drive Need for New Routing Architecture

At-a-Glance

• Zroute Q&A

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• IC Compiler Event Video Log: Latest Technology Advances Drive Customer Success
• IC Compiler Event Overview

Product Information

• IC Compiler data sheet