MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: NVIDIA has adopted Synopsys' recently announced IC Validator physical verification solution.

The IC Validator DRC/LVS solution has been specifically developed for advanced designs at 45nm and below to offer in-design physical verification as well as signoff.

As the inventor of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and the world leader in visual computing technologies, NVIDIA designs multi-billion transistor processors that require the highest level of tool performance and productivity. By achieving near-linear scalability, such as the 20x speedup observed by NVIDIA using 25 CPUs, IC Validator provides accelerated time to tapeout.

The IC Validator has been architected to address the challenges physical designers of complex designs at advanced process nodes face today. IC Validator delivers the high accuracy necessary for leading-edge process nodes, excellent scalability for efficient utilization of available hardware, superior ease-of-use for the physical designer, and high programmability for easier runset development.