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News Release from: Micro Magic | Subject: Max
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 May 2008
Layout editor expands interoperability
By combining the world's fastest layout editor with OpenAccess and IPL standards, Micro Magic provides real choice for chip design professionals.
Billed as the world's fastest layout editor, Max now supports OpenAccess and IPL standards Max has always been the fastest and most powerful layout editor, and has always worked with existing tool flows
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Viewer offers a quick look at IC designs
Free-of-charge layout viewer allows users to view their biggest chip designs instantly.
Now it's even easier for chip designers to share information among various tools through the use of OpenAccess.
Another problem facing chip designers is the lack of interoperable process design kits (PDKs).
The IPL Alliance solves this problem through the use of open standards for PCells.
Micro Magic is now an official member of the IPL Alliance.
The entire Max family of layout tools now has the ability to use IPL-based PDKs.
By combining the world's fastest layout editor with OpenAccess and IPL standards, Micro Magic provides real choice for chip design professionals.
"Joining OpenAccess and IPL are a natural extension of our philosophy - which has always been to push for and quickly adopt open standards for tool interoperability", says Mark Santoro, PhD, Micro Magic's CEO.
Max is the fastest layout system for any sise IC - able to load, view and edit designs of more than one trillion (1000,000,000,000) devices in real time.
Pricing for the Max series is unchanged.
Current Micro Magic Max customers get the OpenAccess upgrade at no additional charge.
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