UniPlan™

UniPlan’s comprehensive hierarchical floorplanning capability is designed with custom design in mind, giving you the freedom to plan layout, placement and routing in an interactive and automated manner.

As a constituent of Unity™, UniPlan is fully integrated with placement, editing, routing, timing and signal integrity components ― a single mouse click enables you to move between individual components with ease.

Infinite flexibility

Using UniPlan you can manage logical hierarchy, define a floorplan, or define, position and size soft macros, or automatically and/or manually place soft and hard macros while locating I/O positions.

• Full power planning and power grid implementation.
• Data push down capability.
• Supports highly flexible, general (polygonal,) floorplan shapes and placement regions.
• Supports multiple height cells, macro blocks and vertical/horizontal rows.
• Contains automatic ring and mesh tools.
• Full global routing and congestion analysis.

Hierarchical and pseudo hierarchical floorplanning

As well as fully hierarchical capabilities, UniPlan also supports a ‘top-down’, ‘bottom-up’, or combined methodology. Using UniPlan you’re free to select a flat, virtual hierarchical, hierarchical or mixed approach ― in any combination.

• Creates region guides and fences in preparation for constraint-driven standard cell placement (flat design methodology).
• Hierarchical cluster placement support (flat design methodology).
• Defined soft macros can be edited in situ, or pushed into, for editing purposes (hierarchy design methodology), and flat design capabilities are available in an infinitely recursive way.
• Automatic pin placement for soft macros ensures the most efficient routing connections at the top level.
• Object/routing push-down capabilities (for example, push-down power routing into a sub-block).