FlowTracer

Key Features

For Designers: * Greater Productivity Through Visualization and Control * Dependency Awareness for Faster TurnAround-Time For Infrastructure * Greater Resource Utilization Through Parallel Execution: * Small Memory Footprint & Built-in Scheduler for Greater Scalability For Management: * Reduced Flow Complexity for Higher Quality of Results * Flow Standardization and Better Collaboration * Greater Productivity * FlowTracer is a complete system that can be used to create, manage, and execute Design Flows. It captures and updates the design flow by interacting with the tools while they are executing the commands contained in the flow. This unique technique to manage the dependencies between files and tools is called Runtime Tracing. * FlowTracer features a color-coded graphical userinterface, which provides designers with accurate insight into their design flows. A powerful Grid View report presents the results of millions of jobs running and highlights failing jobs as red pixels, which can be quickly identified, debugged and resolved. FlowTracer’s powerful Flow Description Language (FDL) allows users to describe design flows in a simple and readable format, removing complexities associated with traditional scripts or Makefiles. * FlowTracer's user interface provides designers with increased visibility, navigation and control. FlowGraph presents a unique, color-coded live view. Designers can "cone-up" to identify what their job depends on, or "cone down" to see what other jobs are dependent on theirs. * FlowTracer’s dependency awareness only allows jobs to be executed when all prior dependency requirements are met, enabling designers to quickly identify the root cause of failing jobs, take the appropriate corrective action, and continue running the jobs from the point of failure. The ability to stop and restart jobs in mid-flow allows designers to make course corrections without having to restart their jobs * Design Acceleration - FlowTracer is designed to support design flows of any size ranging from IP or Design Library Characterization to Design Verification or Physical Design. With a small memory footprint and built-in scheduler, FlowTracer runs multiple processes across multiple servers, providing a scalable solution capable of handling millions of jobs in memory and thousands running simultaneously. Additionally, FlowTracer uncovers the built-in parallelism used in today’s complex design flows for greater resource efficiency.