Pulsic’s Unity Analog Router meet STARC’s criteria for next-gen routing

In March 2011, Pulsic announced that the company’s Unity Analog Router had been selected by STARC, the Japanese electronic design consortium co-founded by major Japanese semiconductor companies, for the STARCAD-AMS analog/ mixed-signal reference flow. Pulsic’s Unity Analog Router was the routing solution to meet STARC’s criteria for next-generation routing. Two years later, Pulsic, the premier provider of physical design tools for precision design automation, has been able to meet the design turnaround time goal of a 50% reduction within the STARC Analog IP Reuse Design Flow without losing the high quality of layout through respin. Unity Analog Router harnesses various shape-based routing solutions for the custom, analog and mixed-signal markets, and supports the most complex design rule sets and advanced node technologies. A new concept in automatic and interactive routing for analog integrated circuits (ICs), Pulsic’s routing solution delivers a simple, easy-to-use, guided flow that delivers DRC-correct routing and completes routing patterns and topologies that an experienced analog designer would create when routing the layout by hand. “STARC has been developing an Analog IP Reuse Design Flow since 2011, and our target was to reduce the design turnaround time (TAT) by one-half versus the current method of manual reworking. Auto-routing functionality is one of the most ...