Company：Magma Design Automation, Inc.

Products：
Characterization and Modeling Solutions for All Design Flows

Web：http://www.magma-da.com

Profile：

Magma Design Automation develops software for electronic design automation（EDA）, enabling integrated circuit designers to meet critical time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs. With headquarters in Silicon Valley and a global network of sales & support personnel, Magma customers include leading semiconductor companies around the world.

Magma's Mission
"To create and deliver the best EDA software products and solutions, encompassing IC design from concept to completion, enabling our customers' commercial success."

Our Market
The makers of integrated circuits look to EDA software to help them design and manufacture complex electronic devices. As ICs, ASICs and SoCs become increasingly sophisticated, these companies rely even more improved capabilities in design software. ICs that at one time contained thousands of transistors now contain millions, compelling EDA vendors to continue developing software that expands the scope of chip design. This increasing complexity in integrated circuit technology requires sophisticated EDA tools such as provided by Magma - tools that enable design engineers to create products of ever-greater capabilities.

Magma's customers - among them Broadcom, Fujitsu, Infineon, NEC Electronics America, Samsung, Toshiba, Texas Instruments and Vitesse, to name a few - include the world's leading semiconductor companies, creating chips more advanced than ever before.

Magma Products
Magma Design Automation provides electronic design automation（EDA）software that enables chip designers to meet critical time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs. Magma software comprises a system that is integrated yet open, capable of reading and writing data in industry-standard formats. By providing unequaled automation, scalability and predictable results, iterations can be eliminated and time to market can be significantly improved. Magma complete RTL-to-GDSII design flows include design planning, prototyping, synthesis, place & route, and signal and power integrity chip design capabilities in a single executable, offering "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" ? Magma software also includes products for advanced physical synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable logic devices（PLDs）; capacitance extraction; and characterization and modeling. Visit Products for details on Magma software.

Magma's Technology
Magma provides "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" thanks to its truly integrated IC design system and truly automated flow. Based on proprietary technology and patented unified data model architecture, the Magma design system combines traditionally separate front-end and back-end chip design into an integrated flow that's designed to eliminate iterations between the synthesis and place-and-route processes, accelerate the design cycle and reduce IC development costs.

Unified Data Model
Magma's systems are based on a unique unified data model architecture. This is a key enabler of the system's ability to concurrently and automatically address timing, area, signal integrity, power and yield. Magma's unified data model contains all the logical and physical information about the design and is resident in core memory during execution. The various functional elements of Magma's software, such as the implementation engines for synthesis, placement and routing, and the analysis software for timing, delay extraction and signal integrity, all operate directly on this data model. Because the data model is concurrently available to all the engines and analysis software, it makes it possible to analyze the design and make rapid tradeoff decisions during the physical design process to optimize for better chip performance.

Automated Chip Creation
Magma Automated Chip Creation methodology enables designers to create either preliminary or final-quality layouts, physically flat or hierarchically, in just a few hours and for any size design. Predictability for subsequent trials is managed with Relative Placement Constraints? which enable the user to reproduce desired aspects of a previous floorplan. This unprecedented level of automation expands the user efficiency at all stages of design development. To further accelerate the design cycle and provide the highest capacity, Magma software leverages multithreading and distributed processing, allowing users to implement very large designs in just two days. With faster design cycles, higher capacity and the ability to automatically and effectively address all design objectives, users can devote more time to product innovation, reduce IC development costs and increase yields.