{"id":1590,"date":"2014-04-25T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2014\/04\/25\/intime-1-1-sneak-preview\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T10:49:00","slug":"intime-1-1-sneak-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.plunify.com\/jp\/2014\/04\/25\/intime-1-1-sneak-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"InTime 1.1 Sneak Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQXfGXPnx4k\/U1ojjKTgBqI\/AAAAAAAACfg\/RCtS6PilU-w\/s1600\/intime_effect.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQXfGXPnx4k\/U1ojjKTgBqI\/AAAAAAAACfg\/RCtS6PilU-w\/s1600\/intime_effect.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Early this year, we released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plunify.com\/en\/product.php\" target=\"_blank\">InTime<\/a> under a closed-door early access program to a handful of customers. From the various feedback and feature requests, it is currently undergoing a series of rapid upgrades and improvements. We are excited by the support and insights that InTime is delivering to customers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">For the rest of the world whom we have not been able to reach out to, here's a quick preview of what it does.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The following shows a design where we ran InTime on. Originally, this design had 97% utilization and total negative slack of about 11ps.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">We generated approximately 80 builds with different synthesis and place-&amp;-route settings to \"calibrate\" its characteristics and to understand dependencies of the settings on its performance.<br \/>Seed sweeps were generally excluded as their effects on results were limited and random. (To be covered in detail in a later post)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\">\n<h3><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Results<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"clear: both;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro';font-size: 18px;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQXfGXPnx4k\/U1ojjKTgBqI\/AAAAAAAACfg\/RCtS6PilU-w\/s1600\/intime_effect.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQXfGXPnx4k\/U1ojjKTgBqI\/AAAAAAAACfg\/RCtS6PilU-w\/s1600\/intime_effect.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">1)&nbsp;<strong>7.5% of the calibration builds already performed better.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">6 out of the 80 builds had better timing scores and lower area than the original design. The encouraging thing was that we know more improvements can be further achieved.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">(Putting things into perspective, the total number of possible combinations(brute-force) is about 70 factorial. This is around 1.19 \u00d7 10<sup>100<\/sup>, excluding seeds)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">2) The best calibration result used&nbsp;<strong>13% less area<\/strong>&nbsp;and had&nbsp;<strong>8.3x better timing<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Because our approach is a multi-stage one, subsequent rounds of builds learn from the previous ones and try to perform better.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #222222\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">3) Total waiting time was about&nbsp;<b>8 hours<\/b>&nbsp;on Plunify cloud platform, which runs on Amazon Web Services.<br \/>We understand that not all companies can use the public cloud. InTime does run in internal clouds or simply on a desktop PC.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">If you are interested, click here for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plunify.com\/docs\/intime_video_3.php\" target=\"_blank\">quick start video<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this year, we released InTime under a closed-door early access program to a handful of customers. From the various feedback and feature requests, it is currently undergoing a series of rapid upgrades and improvements. We are excited by the support and insights that InTime is delivering to customers. 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