Enabling Physical Implementation with OpenSPARC with Nangate 45nm Open Cell Library
Over the last few months, Nangate and Sun have been collaborating to get Nangate's 45nm Open Cell Library work seamlessly with the OpenSPARC T1 and T2 design. After comprehensive qualification, we are delighted to announce the availability of this solution to the hardware designers everywhere.
Since OpenSPARC package mostly consists of the HDL (verilog) of the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors, Nangate's offering is a critical piece in allowing users to explore back-end flows, including logic synthesis, and place and route.
As a result of this work, users can now synthesize, compose, and
optimize state-of-the-art OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 design blocks,
using industry standard synthesis tools, on a 45nm technology supplied
by Nangate. We believe this combination will facilitate research and
experimentation in modern VLSI design topics like timing and noise,
reliability, and process variation among other things. We also believe
the open-source nature of these two offerings will allow researchers to
modify and test new ideas in a consistent and reproducible manner.
