CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 March 2007
Product News
Magma Announces FineSim Pro Parallel Manager - First Parallel Fast-SPICE Simulator
Magma® Design Automation Inc . announced the availability of FineSim® Pro Parallel Manager, the first parallel fast-SPICE simulation capability available to the semiconductor industry. Built on Magma's proprietary Native Parallel TechnologyT, this parallel fast-SPICE option to FineSim Pro changes the landscape of analog design by making possible the verification of very large, complex mixed-signal systems on chip (SoCs).
"Key customers tested this new product on several of their large mixed-signal designs and are very excited about its performance and capacity," said Anirudh Devgan, general manager and vice president of Product Development for Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "FineSim Pro Parallel Manager showed significant speed advantages, as much as an order of magnitude when the results were compared to other commercial fast-SPICE simulators. In many cases the Native Parallel Technology in FineSim Pro enabled the simulation of very large, complex designs that other products could not simulate at all."
This technology not only provides much faster simulation, but also delivers more accurate results than other commercial products. With increased performance, capacity and accuracy, analog designers can now simulate advanced mixed-signal designs, such as wireless SoCs or very large Flash or DRAM designs. "The addition of FineSim Pro Parallel Manager to our circuit simulation product family demonstrates Magma's ongoing commitment to understanding and addressing our customers' toughest challenges," said Suk Lee, general manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "With this technology, our customers can now validate their most complex mixed-signal designs with the best performance and highest level of accuracy possible, before they commit to silicon".
FineSim Pro Parallel Manager is available now for production use with FineSim Pro for full-chip circuit-level simulation and analysis.
About FineSim Pro
FineSim Pro is a circuit-level simulation and analysis tool that incorporates transistor-level simulation capabilities for full-chip mixed digital and analog designs. FineSim Pro contains a new tri-mode simulation engine with distributed processing that enables customers to simulate entire mixed-signal system chips at the transistor level.
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