IP Providers

Today's mega scale, nanometer IC designs require that designers enlist the use of Intellectual Property (IP) products to ensure the fastest time to volume to remain ahead of the competition. Designers need a vast IP portfolio to address their different applications. This portfolio can include microcontrollers, microprocessors, DSPs, bus interfaces, memories and memory controllers, graphics processors, wired and wireless communication IPs and other general purpose IPs. Furthermore, IP vendors can choose to deliver these in soft or hard form depending on their product strategy and customer needs.

Magma Design Automation has been working with the industry leading IP providers to establish a strong alliance and provide comprehensive IP support through the MagmaTies IP Partnership Program. Products from these IP partners have gone thru the "Magma-Ready" support process to ensure that for:

Soft IP Products

Front-end synthesis support and/or reference methodology are created. Examples of Soft IPs are microprocessors, memory controllers and PCI Express controllers.

Hard IP Products

Industry standard views are qualified as ready to be used in the Magma design environment. Examples of Hard IPs are memory blocks, interface PHY blocks, PLLs, and any mixed signal IPs.

The "Magma-Ready" Process

Partners in the MagmaTies IP program have access to the Magma design tools. The engineering teams develop infrastructure to support development and verification of Magma tool support to enable fast deployment of their IP products in customer IC designs.

Soft IP providers become "Magma-Ready" through providing:

1. Talus Design support

2. Reference Implementation Methodology

Hard IP providers go through the following qualification procedure to be "Magma Ready":

1. Import the industry standard views into the Magma design environment
2. Check for logical and physical data consistency
3. Check that the process rules are consistent
4. Verify timing model compatibility
5. Run routing feasibility analysis
6. Run performance analysis to ensure QoR

MagmaTies IP Partners*

• ARC
• ARM
• Arteris
• ARM Physical IP
• Artisan
• Denali
• Go2silicon
• Imagination Technology
• Mentor Graphics
• MIPS Technology
• Nangate 
• Qualcore Logic
• Rambus
• SiWave
• Soft Mixed Signal
• Tensilica
• Virage Logic

*Note that IP supplier may have soft IP and/or hard IP products, please contact the supplier for more information.