Harnessing Multicore Hardware to Accelerate PrimeTime® Static Timing Analysis
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George Mekhtarian PMM, Synopsys Why Multicore Analysis? In the last few years, the trend in CPU performance improvement has shifted from raw computational speed to parallelism as various memory and power (heat dissipation) limits have been reached at the higher clock frequencies. After surpassing clock speeds of 3 GHz, further CPU performance improvement is now achieved by increasing the number of computational elements (cores) within a given CPU package. This means that in order for software applications to run faster on the latest machines, they need to take advantage of the new multicore architecture.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009