Precision Physical is the ultimate offering from Mentor Graphics Synthesis Group, which is truly vendor-independent, allowing users to target all FPGA's they may use in their organisation. This performs true physical synthesis on your design, to maximise the performance results.

It incorporates a powerful interactive RTL and Technology schematic viewer which allows the structure of the most complex of designs to be easily displayed and understood. In addition, the structure can be navigated to find specific areas of interest and even constraints can be added from here.

It includes powerful retiming algorithms which can move registers across logic in order to maximise performance.

The Physical engine provides users with the ability to squeeze the maximum possible performance out of their designs or even to allow a speed grade reduction to be achieved whilst maintaining performance, resulting in a clear cost saving.

This is all tied together using the Design Center, an intuitive user interface which works in a pull-through manner. Navigation of the available options is quick and easy using the Design Bar and all the relevant output files generated are available to the user.

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The same user benefits as within Precision RTL:

• A high performance and easy to use vendor-independent RTL synthesis tool

• Powerful graphical viewer

• The interactive PreciseTime feature clearly analyses the expected performance of your results

• Intuitive user interface

• Incremental debug and analysis environment

• Language neutral, supporting any combination of VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog and EDIF 

Together with the unique addition Physical Synthesis features, including:

• PreciseView clearly demonstrates areas where timing improvement may or may not be made

• Logic to ROM conversion

• RPM creation and reuse for exact timing replication of multiple module instances

• ECO Replacement Reuse