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News Release from: Magma Design Automation | Subject: Quartz DRC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2005
Scalable verification tool reduces
turnaround time
Magma Design Automation, a provider of semiconductor design software, has announced the availability of Quartz DRC, a key component of the company's recently announced Cobra 2005.03 release.
Magma Design Automation, a provider of semiconductor design software, has announced the availability of Quartz DRC, a key component of the company's recently announced Cobra 2005.03 release and a result of its acquisition of Mojave Design Quartz DRC is architected to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, in two hours or less
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is the first truly scalable physical verification tool, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an order of magnitude faster than existing solutions.
Quartz DRC does so by applying fine-grain parallelism across a standard network ('farm') of heterogeneous Linux machines.
Magma believes that Quartz DRC, and future products based on the Mojave technology, will revolutionise the physical verification and design for manufacturability (DFM) markets.
The ability to process any design in less than two hours is a revolutionary breakthrough and one that has received tremendous response from our customer base, says the company.
Additionally, this new architecture provides very accurate and efficient modelling of lithographic and chemical-mechanical polishing effects that dominate manufacturability at 90nm and below, and the firm is integrating this technology into its design and flow.
With Quartz DRC, design-rule-checking (DRC) time is linear with the number of CPUs, so designers are able to choose the turnaround time that best suits their project needs", said Dr Anand Anandkumar, Managing Director, Magma Design Automation India".
"A two-hour turnaround time could save more than a week at the end of the project schedule compared with other commercial products, allowing multiple turns of any full-chip physical design to be made in a single business day".
Quartz DRC was beta tested with select semiconductor and fabless design companies, including BroaDCom, NVIDIA and TSMC.
All designs tested during the beta period ran in less than two hours, with peak memory usage up to 10 times less than competitive tools.
All runs were completed within 32bit hardware limits.
During the bta test period, Magma worked with the leading foundry TSMC to validate the accuracy and performance of Quartz DRC for production on 90nm and 65nm processes.
Quartz DRC is available now from Magma and Quartz LVS is currently in beta test.
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