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2 June 2004

Implementation Investments

Toshiba and Toshiba Microelectronics Corporation Adopt Magma's Blast Fusion APX for 90-Nanometer, SoC Product Design

Magma Design Automation Inc. announced that Toshiba Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, and Toshiba Microelectronics Corporation, a semiconductor product developer and a design provider, have successfully implemented a system on chip (SoC) in Toshiba's TC300 90-nanometer technology using Magma's Blast FusionŽ APX, Blast PlanT and Blast NoiseŽ software. With the Magma software's hierarchical design capabilities, Toshiba was able to tape out the large multimillion-gate SoC product. Blast Noise's crosstalk analysis and avoidance solution allowed the design to be implemented with high quality.

"The unified datamodel of Blast Fusion APX and its 64-bit Opteron support provided very high capacity and predictable timing closure, greatly enhancing the productivity and performance of our 90-nanometer designs," said Takashi Yoshimori, technology executive, SoC Design of Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "This enabled hierarchical design with fewer blocks, significantly simplified the design process and reduced design cycle as expected."

With Blast Fusion APX, Blast Plan and Blast Noise, the Toshiba and Toshiba Microelectronics designers addressed key 90-nanometer design issues such as on-chip variation (OCV) consideration, complex physical design rules and noise avoidance during implementation. As a result they achieved expected timing closure and met the schedule required.

Blast Fusion APX is a fast, high-capacity netlist-to-GDSII physical design system for advanced methodologies and nanometer process technologies. It provides advanced analysis and optimization capabilities for designing high-performance, low-power designs. Blast Fusion APX enables rapid design closure, taking into account new nanometer design challenges such as OCV.

The hierarchical design capability in Blast Plan, and Opteron support, allowed the Toshiba and Toshiba Microelectronics team to minimize the number of hierarchical blocks and delivered full-chip analysis, with top-level optimization. Magma's GlassBoxT modeling technology retained the relevant timing information in each block so that the timing goal could be achieved. Blast Noise was used throughout the flow to automatically identify and fix signal integrity violations. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at http://www.magma-da.com and http://www.magma-da.co.jp

 

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