Magma Brings Synthesis, Power and Noise to DAC
5/28/2003 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, announced that its activities at the 40th Design Automation Conference, June 2-5 in Anaheim, will include demonstrations of the synthesis capabilities in its Blast Create product and the power management of Blast Rail, as well as a hands-on tutorial on power and noise analysis.
Magma's hands-on tutorial entitled "Ensuring Signal and Power Integrity at Nanometer Technologies" will show the latest tools and techniques for addressing power and signal integrity issues. Two tools will be featured: Blast Noise® to address signal integrity and Blast RailTM for power integrity. The tutorial, presented by Patrick Groeneveld, is Wednesday June 4 from 9 a.m. to noon in room 211AB of the convention center.
Demonstrations of Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software will include:
- "The End of Synthesis As You Know It. Predictable RTL." Blast CreateTM, announced April 28, offers an integrated RTL-to-placed-gates flow that eliminates the wasted optimizations between logic synthesis, physical synthesis and physical layout. This new front-end technology leverages Magma's unique gain-based synthesis, FixedTimingTM methodology and unified data model, and includes RTL synthesis, physical synthesis, DFT, power optimization, virtual prototyping and static timing analysis. This demo will show how this approach provides early predictability for timing closure, helps improve RTL and constraints, and provides faster runtime, higher capacity and lower power for challenging designs.
- "Magma's Hierarchical Design and Virtual Prototyping System." This demonstration focuses on an accurate, early virtual prototyping system that drives the hierarchical chip implementation of system-on-chip (SoC) designs. This demo shows how to manage the complexity of today's DSM designs and how to assemble these components into an SoC using Magma's prototyping, planning and IC implementation technology.
- "Advanced IC Implementation system with fully integrated Signal Integrity and Power Integrity capabilities." In this demo Blast FusionTM, Blast Noise and Blast Rail - announced May 12 - work concurrently throughout the IC implementation flow to achieve timing closure while addressing signal and power integrity issues.
For more information and to register online for the tutorial and the software demonstrations, visit Magma's website at: www.magma-da.com/dac.
About Magma
Magma software is used to design fast, multimillion-gate integrated circuits, providing "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon"TM, enabling chip designers to reduce the time required to produce complex ICs. Magma's products for prototyping, synthesis, and place & route provide a single executable for RTL-to-GDSII chip design. The company's Blast CreateTM, Blast Fusion®, Blast Fusion APXTM, Blast PlanTM and Blast Noise® products utilize Magma's patented FixedTiming® methodology and unified data model architecture to reduce the timing-closure iterations often required between the logic and physical processes in conventional IC design flows.
Magma maintains headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., as well as facilities in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, Calif.; Boston, Mass.; Durham, N.C.; Austin and Dallas, Texas; Newcastle, Wash.; and in Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Blast Fusion, Blast Noise, FixedTiming and Magma are registered trademarks, and Blast Create, Blast Fusion APX, Blast Plan, Blast Rail and "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" are trademarks of Magma Design Automation.
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