CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 November 2007
Product News
Magma's Quartz DRC Runsets Qualified for TSMC's 45-nm Process Technology
Magma® Design Automation Inc . announced the availability of QuartzT DRC-qualified runsets for TSMC's 45-nanometer (nm) process technology. Combined with Magma software, the runsets provide designers with a complete, integrated implementation and verification solution that accelerates time to market and improves manufacturability of designs targeted for TSMC's advanced process technology.
At 45 nm, variability in manufacturing is sensitive to chip yield and performance; as a result, design rule checking (DRC) remains a very critical step to ensure the quality of design tapeout. Quartz DRC, introduced in 2005 as the industry's first linearly scalable physical verification tool, enables faster time to market for manufacturing sign-off. This product is now deployed in production worldwide at top semiconductor manufacturers, including recognized leaders in microprocessors, graphics, networking and wireless chip design, and has been certified by major foundries for sign-off at 90-, 65-, 45-nm and finer process nodes. Magma's "in-the-loop" DRC physical sign-off brings DRC-correct layout into the place-and-route flow, eliminating costly final errors by performing GDSII-level error correction without exporting the design database.
"Magma's Quartz DRC tool is essential to the confidence of designers who have been using Magma for physical verification sign-off and the Talus® platform for physical synthesis and sign-off," said Kuo Wu, deputy director of Design Services Marketing at TSMC. "Magma's DRC tool is interoperable with the design tools in TSMC's Reference Flow 8.0, enabling it to fit into our customers' flows."
"Magma's physical verification solution has been shown to reduce tapeout cycles by weeks and enable increased parametric and catastrophic yield," said John Lee, general manager of Magma's Physical Verification Business Unit. "By partnering to provide mutual customers with advanced process technology, physical verification solutions and Quartz DRC runsets, Magma and TSMC demonstrate a shared commitment to enabling designers to meet time-to-market and yield challenges at 45 nm."
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