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Magma Technology Rocks!

Hear from our experts why Magma technology is hotter than ever.

Magma – Innovations in Digital and Analog Design Rajeev Madhavan, Magma’s Chairman and CEO, talks about how Magma managed its survival through the recession, coming to the conclusion that “You can’t save your way out of a recession, you have to innovate your way out.” And, as a result, the company focused on developing products that are uniquely differentiated and today have one of the most comprehensive mixed-signal flows in the EDA industry.
Hydra – Better Floorplans, Faster Results, Biggest Designs Premal Buch discusses the challenges of implementing 10-million-gate and larger designs. He explains why the traditional, manual hierarchical approach in which the design is partitioned into multiple blocks and requires timing to be closed at both the block level and the top level is not feasible for large designs. By automating hierarchical design process, Hydra reduces turnaround time and provides a higher quality floorplan.
QuickCap NX – The Gold Standard in Parasitic Extraction Ralph Iverson talks about the increasing importance of having accurate models for advanced process nodes. He explains that QuickCap NX is the gold standard in 3D parasitic extraction because it delivers significant advantages in speed, memory and runtime over alternative approaches. QuickCap NX precisely models advanced process effects to deliver better process models, allowing users to perform accurate noise and timing analysis and achieve design closure faster.
Talus Design – Setting the Course for On-Time Design Closure Rajeev Murgai describes why the traditional separation of RTL synthesis and physical implementation is no longer effective for today’s SoCs. The two must be done concurrently. Magma’s physically-aware RTL synthesis uses the same engine for RTL optimization and physical implementation, ensuring that design timing can be closed. In addition to improving predictability, Talus Design reduces congestion and optimizes power.
Magma Low-Power Solutions - Maxmizing Power Per Watt Hamid Savoj explains why accurate power measurement is so difficult and how this impacts optimization. He notes the challenges involved in generating accurate vectors to represent how software will actually operate and how current methods are too pessimistic. And he explains how without accurate power measurement, you leave watts on the table. Magma’s technology automatically generates power characterization and reduces power by up to 30 percent, without affecting area or timing.
Talus Vortex – Accelerating Physical Design Closure Patrick Groeneveld discusses how Talus Vortex addresses the growing complexity of today’s SoCs. He describes what’s needed to ensure physical design closure and the importance of addressing crosstalk delay right from the start. He highlights a number of new techniques Talus Vortex uses to address these issues natively in the flow.
Tekton – Next-Generation Static Timing Analysis Jacob Avidan notes that today’s SoCs are approaching 10 million gates and have multiple modes and corners that must be analyzed. He explains that performing static timing analysis with traditional tools requires investments in more and more hardware and software licenses. With its ability to analyze multimillion-gate designs with dozens of modes and corners on a single-CPU machine in a matter of minutes, Tekton is a superior alternative.
An Innovative Approach for Implementing Big Flat Designs Premal Buch identifies the limited capacity of traditional implementation tools as a critical stumbling block to the realization of multimillion-gate designs. The complex partitioning that designers use today doesn’t scale. Magma is introducing an innovative solution that distributes routing across multiple machines. This approach promises to enable flat implementation of 10-million-cell designs, and 2-million-cell designs to be completed in a day.
Quartz – Fastest Fully Scalable Physical Verification John Lee discusses the challenges in physical verification as designs move to 40 nm and below. He describes the 2X increase in gate count, rule complexity and rule count, and how the cost and time impact of these result in a 4X increase in turnaround time, licenses and hardware costs. Magma is addressing these challenges with Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS, and is integrating verification into the place-and-route flow to reduce iterations.
Titan – Fastest Path to Mixed-Signal Silicon Mar Hershenson explains how Titan takes a radically different approach to analog design, automating key steps to literally cut weeks out of the process. This allows analog designers to more fully explore the design space to improve performance and dramatically reduce power consumption.
Titan – Accelerating Analog Design, Layout and Reuse Dave Colleran discusses how, with Titan, designers can capture analog design circuit behavior in equation form, and then easily and automatically port their designs to a new process or reuse it in a new IC. With the conventional manual approach, this could take weeks and require multiple iterations. By automating analog design and reuse, Titan provides an order-of-magnitude productivity improvement over other tool flows.

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