New breakthroughs in IC physical design!!!!

By Nathan Kirsch

Magma Design Automation, Apache Design Solutions, and Sierra Design Automation are pitching new IC physical design technology in advance of next week’s Design Automation Conference. This is big news because it is the first time that a next-generation IC can have a physical-verification completed. This means that work on next-gen IC’s can advance quicker now. The new software is not cheap though, as Pinnacle 2.0 costs $395,000 for a one-year license. Now it makes sense why products that contain IC’s cost so much.

Magma Design Automation Inc. this week will release Quartz-DRC, which claims to verify any chip design in two hours or less. Apache Design Solutions Inc. is rolling out PsiWinder, a critical-path analysis tool that considers both power and crosstalk. And Sierra Design Automation Inc. will announce Pinnacle 2.0, which allows concurrent multimode and multicorner analyses of timing, area, power and signal integrity.

EE Times

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