Both tools use PKS concurrent optimization which simultaneously optimizes a design's logic, placement, and global routing. They also have common synthesis, placement, routing, and timing engines. PKS integrates physical technology with synthesis to deliver a synthesis system with perfect timing correlation and superior quality of results. With PKS, designers are assured of having early and accurate timing information which enables a highly productive design flow free of timing closure iteration. What You Synthesize is What You Get Key Features High capacity, high performance PKS is capable of synthesizing designs in excess of 1-million instances.
Productivity is improved through reduced partitioning and scripting.
High capacity and performance is requisite for each. High-level synthesis transforms PKS includes all synthesis transforms found in the Ambit BuildGates synthesis tool. PKS is capable of full restructuring, cloning, buffer insertion, re-mapping, and sizing operations. Additionally, PKS supports IEEE, Synopsys, and user-defined VHDL packages. Unlike a traditional GUI oriented towards menu driven tool control, the PKS GUI uniquely combines linked graphical and textual views to speed access to design information, making for more productive design debug.