Precision RTL is the basic offering from Mentor Graphics Synthesis Group which is truly vendor-independent, allowing users to target all FPGA's they may use in their organisation. The more advanced version is Precision RTL Plus, which performs physically-aware synthesis on your design, to maximise the performance results without floorplanning. For the ultimate in performance, the top version is Precision Physical, which performs true physical synthesis on your design and allows floorplanning, 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.

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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Using Precision RTL provides the following user benefits:

• 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 

The next level of functionality from RTL Synthesis is RTL Plus Synthesis