GOF beats Conformal ECO Case 1

Summary

The test case is extracted from a large hierarchical design. RTL changes affect 6 flops and 6 output ports. GOF auto ECO uses 24 cells 4.7 in area to fix the logic, while conformal ECO uses 76 cells 20.3 in area to fix the logic. To be fair in comparison, all cells in ECO use driver 'D0'.

Results Comparison

ECO Result Total Cells Non-Buffer Invert Buffer Area
GOF 24 7 14 3 4.7
Conformal ECO 76 62 14 0 20.3

Files in ECO

Comparison on Schematic

 GOF generates a patch having 24 gates in total.

Figure 1 GOF ECO patch

While Conformal ECO generates a big patch with total 76 gates.

Figure 2 Conformal ECO patch

GOF command line

The files can be downloaded to reproduce the result

gof -lib mp16.lib imp.v -ref ref.v -run eco.gpl

 


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