CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 May 2008
Implementation Investments
Open-Silicon Adopts Magma's Hydra Automated Floorplanning and Hierarchical Design Planning Product to Streamline ASIC Implementation
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced that Open-Silicon Inc., a leading fabless ASIC company, has adopted Magma's new Hydra™ floorplanning and hierarchical design planning product. Open-Silicon adopted Hydra because it enables development of production-quality floorplans that accurately reflect final chip architectural intent and performance. With this streamlined approach to ASIC planning, Open-Silicon can improve the quality of results and turnaround time of its customers' designs.
"Open-Silicon's mission is to provide our customers with predictable, reliable and cost-effective ASICs," said Dr. Satya Gupta, vice president of Engineering and Technology of Open-Silicon. "Hydra's advanced floorplanning capabilities, including automated partitioning, macro placement and macro shaping, can help us reduce turnaround time and improve quality of results. Hydra enables us to better capture architectural intent of the customer design and thus achieve a more predictable design handoff and implementation."
"Open-Silicon has enabled silicon success for leading semiconductor companies in a wide range of industry segments, including wireless and mobile, consumer, digital entertainment, computing, storage and networking, security and telecommunications," said Kam Kittrell, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "We're pleased that the company and its customers are leveraging Hydra to reduce turnaround time and costs."
Hydra: Streamlining ASIC Handoff and Improving Designer Productivity
Hydra is an automated floorplanning and hierarchical design planning product with complete physical optimization capabilities. Unlike other floorplanning tools, Hydra takes timing, power, congestion and area into consideration and generates production-quality floorplans, streamlining ASIC implementation. By automating top-down chip planning, floorplan generation, partitioning and physical block shaping, and then performing top-level clock tree generation and time budgeting for block-level implementation, Hydra dramatically improves designer productivity.
Hydra can be used in third-party flows or integrated with Magma's Talus® IC implementation system. Used in conjunction with Talus Design or Talus Vortex, Hydra offers integration from prototyping to implementation within the same data model. Hydra also works with RioMagic™, Magma's package-aware chip planning solution, to enable I/O planning and placement tradeoffs for both peripheral and flip chip packages.
Magma to Feature Hydra at DAC
To register for an in-depth Hydra demo at the Design Automation Conference, June 8-13 in Anaheim, visit Magma's website at http://www.magma-da.com/DAC.
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