LynxNXT Automation System Delivers Higher Productivity and Predictability for IC Design LynxNXT Automation System is a full-chip design environment that includes innovative flow automation and reporting capabilities to help implement and monitor designs Overview LynxNXT Automation System is a comprehensive next-generation automation environment that is an open system for flow automation configuration. Developed by chip designers for chip designers, LynxNXT Automation System is based on automating tool flows from the industry-leading Fusion Design Platform™ and can easily be configured to support any tool, any flow. It includes the Fusion Platform Methodology, a platform-based RTL-to-GDSII flow that can be leveraged to simplify and automate flows for many critical implementation and validation tasks, enabling engineers to focus on achieving the best out-of-the-box (OOTB) quality of results (QoR) for design performance and goals. LynxNXT Automation System Configurable Flows Runtime Manager RM-based Fusion Flow Fusion Platform Methodology Adaptive Resource Optimization User-defined Flow Figure 1: LynxNXT Automation System Key Benefits • Provide consistent design environment across any design discipline • Visualization technology provides intuitive, easy-to-use flow creation, execution, job monitoring, and project reporting • Build innovative and sophisticated automated system solutions such as circuit validation, correlation, and IP regression to improve productivity • Fusion Platform Methodology builds on production-proven Fusion-based reference methodologies delivering fast and predictable results with best out-of-the-box QoR • Adaptive Resource Optimization automates right-sizing of job queue submissions

Runtime Manager The LynxNXT Automation System includes a patented GUI (Figure 2) that simplifies and automates flow creation, configuration, and maintenance to improve the productivity of the design team. Intuitive and easy-to-use, LynxNXT Automation’s Runtime Manager provides the ability to graphically edit, execute and monitor customer flows as a design progresses from RTL to tape-out. Creating a new design flow or modifying existing flows is accomplished using intuitive edit operations. Flat or hierarchical design flows, for a single block or for an entire chip, are defined by connecting various...

Any Tool, Any Flow LynxNXT Automation System can be leveraged to create and automate flows for many critical implementation, validation, regression, and correlation tasks; enabling engineers to focus on achieving project goals. It allows designers to start with the integrated Fusion Platform Methodology, or customize tool capabilities and methodologies based on project-specific requirements by integrating thirdparty tools as needed. The Fusion Platform Manager flow is tuned to deliver superior quality of results with the tools from the Synopsys Fusion Design Platform. Built on silicon-proven...