SAN JOSE Calif., July 29, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Quartz(tm) DRC and Quartz LVS now support TSMC's interoperable design rule check (iDRC) and layout-versus-schematic (iLVS). With the two unified electronic design automation (EDA) data formats and scalable Quartz physical verification solution, Magma and TSMC are working to make their mutual customers' adoption of TSMC's 40-nanometer (nm) process technology faster, easier and less costly.
"TSMC has taken a leadership role in defining an interoperable, common language for all DRC and LVS tools," said ST Juang, senior director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC. "The unified iDRC and iLVS files eliminate the need to develop and maintain multiple custom runsets, improve data accuracy and consistency, and enables designers to choose the EDA tool that best meets their requirements. Ultimately, our customers can adopt our advanced process technologies early for their designs."
Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are architected to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, in the least amount of time. Magma's is the first truly scalable physical verification solution, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an order of magnitude faster than existing solutions by leveraging existing compute resources. The Quartz tools are fully compatible with third-party IC implementation flows and can read file formats used by traditional physical verification tools.
"The scalable architecture of Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS was designed specifically to provide fast, efficient physical verification of large, complex designs," said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "That scalability and native support for the Tcl procedural language used by the TSMC iDRC and iLVS formats make Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS the ideal solution for designs targeting TSMC's processes."
About Magma
Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software is used to create complex, high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, DVD/digital video, networking, automotive electronics and other electronic applications. Magma products for IC implementation, analog/mixed-signal design, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and characterization are recognized as embodying the best in semiconductor technology, providing the world's top chip companies the "Fastest Path to Silicon."(tm) Magma maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Magma is a registered trademark, and "Fastest Path to Silicon" and Quartz are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Forward-looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements about Quartz DRC's ability to verify designs in a few hours; and statements about the features and benefits of Magma's software and the TSMC's processes are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including but not limited to the ability of Magma's and TSMC's products to produce the desired results, the companies' abilities to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and the companies' decisions to continue working together. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). The companies undertake no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.