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News Release from: Micro Magic | Subject: Max-View
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2007
Viewer offers a quick look at IC designs
Free-of-charge layout viewer allows users to view their biggest chip designs instantly.
Micro Magic has added a new product to its suite of EDA tools: Max-View is a layout viewer that allows users to view their biggest chip designs instantly Billed as "world's fastest GDS viewer", Max-View has been demonstrated to load and display a chip design with one trillion transistors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Redisplay is in real time on the "trillion" chip - and is instantaneous at any zoom level.
Max-View allows IC engineers to: view an entire chip design quickly and easily; zoom, pan, push and pop; control layer visibility; control hierarchy view with the Cell Hierarchy Browser; debug after place and route; quickly check DRC errors with the integrated Calibre interface; select and check net connections; view a 3D representation of the layout.
Max-View reads GDSII files and of course Max files.
Users have full control over how layers and hierarchy are displayed.
Max-View also imports industry standard display files - so that the user's colour and layer preferences are maintained.
For editing, saving and other advanced features, Micro Magic recommends the full-featured Max Layout Editor.
Micro Magic is providing free Max-View licences for a limited time to qualified users.
All free Max-View licences expire after DAC 45, on 14th June 2008.
"All good engineers are sceptical of performance claims", says Mark Santoro, Micro Magic's CEO.
"Once they've experienced the speed and ease of use of Max-View, we're betting they will want to try our other tools".
IC designers interested in Max-View should register at Micro Magic's website.
After checking registration information, Micro Magic will issue a licence by e-mail.
Max-View can then be downloaded and installed.
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