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Anasim Corp. / 5 February 2012

Release of pi-fp (and source code) to end-users

Anasim releases pi-fp along with its GUI and simulation source code to end-users under a Creative Commons by-nc license. The pi-fp project archive may be downloaded from Anasim’s PI-FP page.

Written in C++ and developed in a platform independent development environment (Qt from Nokia®), pi-fp sports an intuitive graphical user interface and interactive 3D interconnect / simulations results visualization. It is the first CAD tool to provide a physical design schematic capture environment for chip/system power integrity analysis. pi-fp is also the first simulation environment that employs innovative modeling and simulation algorithms (ECD) to include key aspects of power integrity verification in a true-physical manner.

Contact Anasim Corp. for more information, or visit Anasim’s web pages.

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August 2010: Early PI-aware design is a significant aspect of IC floorplanning, particularly in nanoscale systems where low power/energy and efficient use of chip/pkg metal and decoupling resources are key design constraints. The advent of 3D integration in the form of chip or package stacking makes early front-end analysis of PI through high levels of abstraction and physics-based simulations all the more necessary. Correlation between PI and thermal issues provides an added benefit in front-end PI analysis and optimization…

Continue reading in an SOCcentral featured article. More on power integrity and floorplanning: Anasim’s PI book for IC’s.

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