Date: 21/06/2010

Wintegra uses Magma Quartz products for verification of its 65-nm Chip

Wintegra has made a 65-nanometer (nm) chip using Magma's Quartz physical verification tools Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS by using fab services TSMC.

"As we integrate more features, our designs are getting larger, more complex. To meet our time-to-market windows we need a fast, high-capacity physical verification solution," said Yoram Yeivin, senior vice president of Engineering at Wintegra. "Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS provide the ultra-fast turnaround time and performance we need. Plus, with the excellent support Magma provided during the flow development and deployment and the availability of sign-off runsets from TSMC's website, Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS were very easy to adopt."

"The Quartz products' proven ability to accelerate turnaround time of large designs and to support complex, leading-edge, deep-submicron process rules makes them ideal physical verification solution for today's advanced designs," said Anirudh Devgan, CVP and General Manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "Wintegra's success on this important design is a strong endorsement of the Quartz technology."

Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS products are architected to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, consuming only a small amount of time. Magma says that this verification solution will be able to provide turnaround time that is faster than existing solutions while using existing computer resources. These Quartz tools are fully compatible with third-party IC implementation flows and can read file formats used by traditional physical verification tools.

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