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Magma Introduces Quartz DRC
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Wednesday, 06 July 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, announced the availability of Quartz DRC, a key component of Magmas recently announced Cobra 2005.03 release and a result of Magmas acquisition of Mojave Design.
Quartz DRC is architect to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, in two hours or less. It is the first truly scalable physical verification tool, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an order of magnitude faster than existing solutions. Quartz DRC does so by applying fine-grain parallelism across a standard network of heterogeneous Linux machines.
Magma believes that Quartz DRC, and future products based on the Mojave technology, will revolutionize the physical verification and DFM markets. The ability to process any design in less than two hours is a revolutionary breakthrough and one that has received tremendous response from our customer base. Additionally, this new architecture provides very accurate and efficient modeling of lithographic and CMP effects that dominate manufacturability at 90 nanometers (nm) and below, and we are integrating this technology into our design and flow.
With Quartz DRC, design-rule-checking (DRC) time is linear with the number of CPUs, so designers are able to choose the turnaround time that best suits their project needs, said Anandkumar, managing director, Magma Design Automation India. A two-hour turnaround time could save more than a week at the end of the project schedule compared to other commercial products, allowing multiple turns of any full-chip physical design to be made in a single business day, he adds.