CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 February 2005
Implementation Investments
Fabless Start-up Enuclia Semiconductor Selects Magma EDA Software for IC Design
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced that Enuclia Semiconductor has selected Magma's front-end design tools, Blast CreateT and Blast PlanT Pro, to prototype designs in FPGAs and structured ASICs, and then move them into to Enuclia's ASIC/COT (customer-owned tooling) design flow.
"Enuclia has been impressed with the ability of Magma's products to provide for seamless design transitions from FPGA prototyping to structured ASIC, and ultimately to our ASIC/COT design flow," said Carl Ruggiero, CTO of Enuclia Semiconductor. "We are using Magma's unique tools to achieve a high quality, low power design on schedule and with a smaller die size.
Architecture-specific synthesis and physical optimizations are integrated into Magma's Blast Create product to deliver superior quality of results (QoR). Using Magma's unified synthesis flow, Enuclia's engineering team has a straightforward process for migrating from FPGA prototyping to structured ASICs for low-volume field testing, then to standard cell ASIC designs for production release. Magma's unified synthesis flow can immediately assess trade-offs in area, performance, and power early in the design cycle to provide hardware implementation options to designers.
Magma's Blast Plan Pro provides for virtual prototyping and partitioning of large designs into manageable blocks. It also uses its patented GlassBoxT abstraction technology for accurate budgeting of the chip-level timing constraints among the top-level blocks. Each block can then be implemented concurrently and modeled as a GlassBox for full-chip extraction and timing signoff, power analysis, crosstalk fixing, clock tree synthesis, and final assembly. The floorplanning automation and virtual prototype feedback in Blast Plan Pro lets engineers make floorplanning and partitioning decisions to achieve their full-chip timing and area goals.
Magma's integrated flow offers time-to-market and performance benefits for companies developing FPGAs and ASICs from different vendors. By deploying Magma's flow in its design environment, Enuclia can use the same RTL, standard scripts, design constraints, and user interface across platforms. This streamlines the design flow by eliminating time spent learning the use of disparate tools.
"We have found that tool installation, maintenance and support are greatly simplified by Magma's Volcano integrated data model structure," said Tom Moxon, principal IC design engineer at Enuclia. "Magma Volcano lets us easily hand-off a design to foundry partners and ensures they will view the design just as we do. We also like the collaboration and team design features in Magma's products."
"We are excited to be working with the world-class design team at Enuclia," said Behrooz Zahiri, director of business development for Magma Design Automation. "That an innovator such as Enuclia has chosen Magma tools to achieve QoR and fast time to market is a testament to Magma's innovative approach to EDA."
Enuclia Semiconductor of Beaverton, Ore. is developing an intelligent technology that will deliver image quality and cost savings to the world's leading manufacturers of integrated digital televisions. The company recently closed its Series A funding round, which was co-led by Seven-Rosen Funds and BA Venture Partners. Visit http://www.enuclia.com for the latest company news and information on career opportunities.
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