CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 February 2009
Product News
Magma's Latest Version of Talus Vortex Delivers Industry-Best Quality of Results for Advanced Designs
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced availability of an updated version of Talus® Vortex, Magma's physical design environment for advanced integrated circuits. The January 2009 release includes the advanced features required for leading-edge design, such as full-flow multi-mode/multi-corner optimization and low-power clock-tree synthesis.
With enhanced algorithms that run efficiently on multi-CPU machines, Talus Vortex is ideally suited for the most challenging designs -- especially for wireless, graphics, networking and multimedia chips with tens of millions of gates, at technology nodes ranging from 130 to 32 nanometers (nm). Talus Vortex has been production proven on more than 100 designs, including dozens at 45 nm or smaller.
"For our customers' toughest designs, Talus Vortex continues to set the standard for the best quality of results and provides unmatched productivity," said Kevin Moynihan, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "The January 2009 release increases Talus Vortex's effectiveness and offers significant performance improvement over the 2008 versions."
Talus Vortex's multi-mode and multi-corner analysis capabilities have been enhanced for better memory and runtime efficiency and are performed earlier in the flow. This release delivers timing, power and area results that are up to 20 percent better compared to the 2008 versions, and turnaround time has been cut nearly in half. Talus Vortex has enhanced automation for better usability and offers the industry's best full-flow multithreading speedup.
Talus Vortex: Best Design Flow for Advanced Chips
Talus Vortex improves the productivity of physical designers by offering complete design closure. This integrated implementation and sign-off system delivers improved timing and signal integrity, smaller area, lower power, better manufacturability, faster turnaround time and higher capacity than conventional point-tool flows. These capabilities, combined with optional automated distributed processing on multiple computers, enable Talus Vortex to implement any size design from RTL to GDSII in a predictable fashion.
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