Collaboration
Imagine you're working on a design faced with tight timelines and a challenging problem: your Physical Design engineers are in one city, and the Architecture team is 3000 miles and 3 timezones away. You are in the middle of tape-out and the physical design team needs input from the architecture team to fix the floorplan for some critical paths and to validate that the problems they are seeing are indeed real problems. Sharing screens can work once in a while, but it gets tedious over the entire tapeout. Is there a better way?
Real collaboration happens only if you knock down the obstacles. With data distributed across multiple tools, and teams distributed across the globe, design managers face difficult challenges. The ideal solution is one that brings your entire team together, all sharing a consistent view of the same data, and having meaningful dialog about the issues that remain.
What if you could aggregate all of the physical design data into a simple, easy-to-read web page? With such a tool, it becomes a snap to share the physical design information with the architecture team. Simply provide the architects with a URL to look at, and they never have to run VNC or need an explanation on how to view the data locally.
Moreover, what if the web page contained pictures for critical paths, not only the fly lines, but also the routing information? Both the physical design engineers and the architects could be looking at the same problem and talking about why a particular path is failing, and come up with ideas. They should be able to add annotations to the web pages that can then be shared and tracked as people look at it.
Even if your team is completely collocated, they’d be able to easily look at the problems across the design. It would become more natural work together (even outside of their own partition) to become aware of problems that might be affecting the whole chip.
These capabilities are exactly what Tuscany provides with our web-enabled visualization. Check out Tuscany Dashboard and see how you can unlock the power of your team.
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