Laker™ Custom Digital Router

The Laker™ Custom Digital Router brings new efficiency to digital design in mixed signal ICs.  When combined with the Laker Custom Row Placer, this new router offers a very effective package for high‐performance digital design in a custom IC layout environment.

Benefits

The Laker Custom Digital Router saves you time with unique automation technology for routing of digital blocks within the Laker Custom Layout Automation System.  Creating digital blocks within a custom environment allows you to:

• Avoid time‐consuming switching between digital automatic place and route (P&R) and custom layout environments and the associated data preparation and translation
• Leverage all the features of the Laker Custom Layout Automation System for things like hand‐routing of critical nets and hand‐optimization of critical cell placements
• Save time using  proven standard cells for high performance digital applications that previously had to be done by hand

Features

The Laker Custom Digital Router is ideal for small to medium‐sized digital design portions of custom mixed‐signal designs. Features include:

• Fixed height standard/custom cell routing
• Unique hybrid routing technology that combines gridded and shape‐based routing for very high route completion rates
  • Global routing that provides congestion analysis, mapping and display
  • Shape‐based routing that eliminates incomplete routes and DRC errors
  • Incremental routing that allows hand-routing of critical nets before completing the remaining nets automatically
    • Enables ECO routing at any point in the layout process
    • Advanced nanometer rule support that dramatically reduces DRC escapes
      • Post-route DRC reports with error viewer to see any remaining DRCs
      • Post‐route yield optimization that includes double via insertion, antenna fixing  and jog removal
      • Power and ground grid placement and routing for a complete solution
      • Spine routing for memory‐style routing with restricted metal layers
      • LEF/DEF and Verilog import and LEF/DEF export capabilities

The Laker Custom Digital Router is optimized to work with designs of up to about 50,000 cells/nets and is not timing driven. The Laker Custom Digital Router is also extended to work with the Laker Custom Row Placer to minimize wire lengths and assure routable placements.  The Laker router allows you to work in a single comprehensive design environment for maximum productivity. 

Congestion maps help you optimize placement and routing channels to maximize completed routes

LakerCustom Digital Router in a mixed-signal design

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