MAX has always been the fastest and most powerful layout editor, and has always worked with existing tool flows. Now it’s even easier for chip designers to share information among various tools through the use of OpenAccess.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Business Wire EON) May 13, 2008 --
MAX has always been the fastest and most powerful layout editor, and has
always worked with existing tool flows. Now it’s
even easier for chip designers to share information among various tools
through the use of OpenAccess.
Another problem facing chip designers is the lack of interoperable
processor design kits (PDKs). The IPL Alliance solves this problem
through the use of open standards for PCells. Micro Magic, Inc. is now
an official member of the IPL Alliance. The entire MAX family of layout
tools now has the ability to use IPL-based PDKs.
By combining the world’s fastest layout editor
with OpenAccess and IPL standards, Micro Magic provides real choice for
chip design professionals.
“Joining OpenAccess and IPL are a natural
extension of our philosophy – which has always
been to push for and quickly adopt open standards for tool
interoperability,” said Mark Santoro, PhD,
Micro Magic’s CEO.
MAX is the fastest layout system for any size IC - able to load, view
and edit designs of more than one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) devices
in real time.
Pricing of the MAX series is unchanged. Current Micro Magic MAX
customers get the OpenAccess upgrade at no additional charge.
About Micro Magic, Inc.
About Micro Magic, Inc.
Micro Magic provides tools, design services, and intellectual property
(IP) for the design of high-speed, low-power SoCs. The company’s
mission is to help designers dramatically reduce the time and cost
required to produce high-performance SoC designs. Micro Magic’s
advanced EDA tools are built by IC designers for IC designers. They can
handle any size design, are production-proven, and are easy to learn.
The company’s products have been used to
design the datapaths and memory subsystems associated with all types of
SoCs, including processors, DSPs, embedded controllers, multi-media,
network and graphics chips.
About OpenAccess and Si2
OpenAccess is a community effort to provide true interoperability, not
just data exchange, among IC design tools through an open standard data
API and reference database supporting that API for IC design. The
OpenAccess Coalition is a neutral organization of industry leaders that
are leading this effort operating under Si2 bylaws.
http://www.si2.org/?page=621
About IPL
IPL (Interoperable PDK Libraries) is an industry alliance established on
April 2007 to collaborate on the creation and distribution of an
open-source interoperable PCell library that supports the OpenAccess
database from the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2).
In November 2007, IPL formed three technical working groups for 1)
Properties and Parameters, 2) PCells and 3) Constraints. Also, the
organization expanded its charter to address broader interoperability
issues with foundry process design kits (PDK) and design flows.
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IPL current members include:
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Applied Wave Research (AWR)
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Ciranova
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Helic
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JEDAT
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Magma Design Automation
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Mentor Graphics
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Micro Magic, Inc.
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Silicon Canvas
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Silicon Navigator
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Synopsys
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Virage Logic
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Mentor Graphics and Pulsic are supporting members.
http://www.iplnow.com
MAX, MAX-LS, MAX-3D, and MAX-View are trademarks of Micro Magic, Inc.
Ciranova, PyCell Studio, PyCell and PCell Xtreme are trademarks of
Ciranova, Inc. OpenAccess is trademarked by Si2 –
Silicon Integration Initiative.
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