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17 May 2004
Product News
Magma Enhances Blast Rail, Blast Noise, Built-in Extraction and Delay Calculation Engines
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced enhancements to its embedded analysis engines-including extraction based on the QuickCap® high-accuracy delay calculation-and to the Blast Noise® signal integrity and the Blast RailT power integrity solutions. The new analysis capabilities are all available in version 4.2 of Magma's integrated RTL-to-GDSII integrated circuit (IC) implementation system and have been shown to provide the closest correlation to SPICE and up to 10 times better speed, providing designers with higher accuracy and faster runtime.
Blast Noise version 4.2 adds support for the Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation (AWE) noise model that brings accuracy to within 8 percent of SPICE, based on initial test results. Blast Noise now also supports crosstalk analysis across multiple voltage domains, which are increasingly common in leading-edge designs. With embedded signal integrity analysis and correction capabilities, and results to within a few percentage points of SPICE, Blast Noise offers users the most effective signal integrity solution on the market.
Blast Rail version 4.2 now supports highly accurate transient analysis, enabling designers to identify sudden changes in power consumption by taking into account resistive, capacitive and inductive effects. At the same time, Blast Rail version 4.2 allows users to take advantage of the more accurate transient analysis without requiring them to generate extensive switching activity information. Enhanced support for multimillion-gate hierarchical designs includes macromodeling for rail analysis of embedded macros. Blast Rail version 4.2 also provides users with as much as a 10X improvement in runtime.
The embedded extraction and delay calculation in Blast Fusion® version 4.2 now integrates the extraction technology of QuickCap, widely regarded as the "gold standard" of extraction accuracy, to provide the highest level of accuracy. This enables better rule generation, leading to more accurate extraction, and also enables "on-the-fly" QuickCap extraction on critical nets. Improvements to the embedded extraction and delay calculation deliver more accurate delay and noise analysis, resulting in more predictable silicon performance.
A new current source driver model for delay calculation also improves accuracy substantially. Internal testing has shown that with this new model, the delay numbers now correlate to within 5 percent of SPICE. Magma has also added more complete support for SDC constraints that enable designers to read existing constraints into Magma's flow without having to rewrite them.
Blast Noise 4.2 and Blast Rail 4.2 can be previewed at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego, June 7-11. Register online for demos at DAC at http://www.magma-da.com/dac Blast Noise 4.2 will be in production release in June 2004 with pricing starting at $157,000. Blast Rail 4.2 will be in production release in June 2004 with pricing starting at $160,000.
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