Hydra

Hydra is an auto-interactive floorplanning and hierarchical design planning solution featuring a complete physical optimization capability that enables accurate floorplan handoff. It is a standalone solution that is also fully integrated into Magma’s RTL-to GDSII flow, enabling designers to manage the complexity of multimillion-gate designs to reliably achieve timing closure.

Full hierarchical methodology supports bottom-up block-based flows, top-down black-box flows and mixed bottom-up/top-down flows with automated floorplanning, partitioning and time budgeting.
Enables early design planning using a netlist consisting of a mix of gates, RTL, macros, black-box models and GlassBox™ models. Provides quick design prototype feedback for floorplan, design and timing constraint refinement.
Automated hierarchy management, physical partitioning, macro placement and soft block shaping not only save considerable runtime and manual effort, but also provide better timing, area and quality of results.
Relative Floorplanning Constraints™ eliminates manual intervention when changes need to be made in logical hierarchy or size and shape of physical partitions.
Integrated design flow, single executable, common analysis engines and a unified data model enhance productivity, provide ease of use, eliminate unnecessary file transfers and ensure continuous correlation with the implementation flow.

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