Veritools Integrates Undertow Tool Suite With Blast Create, Magma's Fast, High-Capacity Synthesis Solution
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 13, 2003—
Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a
provider of chip design solutions, and Veritools, a leading provider
of debug solutions, today announced integration of Veritools' flagship
Undertow toolset with Magma's Blast Create(TM) synthesis solution.
Blast Create and Undertow users now have a seamless
RTL-to-placed-gates design flow that includes cross-probing and
interactive debugging capabilities for very large and complex
system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The combination of Magma and Veritools
technology allows designers to find errors in the design intent within
the RTL code or timing constraints using familiar techniques such as
cross-probing HDL source code, gate-level schematics, block diagrams,
state machine diagrams and waveforms.
"Many of our Undertow customers are beginning to use Magma's
powerful RTL synthesis solution," said Robert Schoppmeyer, president
and CEO at Veritools. "These users go back and forth between writing
Verilog or VHDL code, timing constraints, functional verification and
RTL synthesis. A familiar debug environment they have been using for
functional verification now helps them analyze the netlist created
through Blast Create and cross-probe it to HDL code. With its easily
accessible unified data model, it took us less than one month to
integrate Undertow with Blast Create."
"We are very pleased with the ease in which Undertow was
integrated with Blast Create. This demonstrates how Magma's open data
model makes it easy for our users to add existing tools to their
design flow," said Yatin Trivedi, director of product marketing at
Magma. "Just as we have brought traditionally separate logic designers
and physical designers together through our integrated RTL-to-GDSII
flow, Undertow integration brings functional verification and design
engineers under one familiar debug environment."
About Blast Create
Blast Create is an RTL-to-placed-gates system that enables logic
designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve the quality
of their RTL code, design constraints, testability requirements and
floorplan. Blast Create integrates fast, full-featured, high-capacity
logic and physical synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static
timing analysis, design for test (DFT) analysis and synthesis, and
power analysis. Unlike conventional point-tool front-end flows, Blast
Create does not rely on wireload models or inaccurate physical design
data. With Blast Create's high capacity and integrated technology,
designers can quickly build and analyze a flat, multimillion-gate
design. This allows them to identify and fix problems early in the
flow, ensuring a clean handoff between the RTL designer and the layout
engineer, providing a predictable path to timing closure and
accelerating the RTL-to-GDSII design flow. Both Verilog and VHDL
hardware definition languages (HDLs) are supported. Blast Create
accepts design constraints in SDC format and libraries in .lib format,
avoiding the need and cost of adapting Blast Create to existing logic
design environments.
About Veritools Inc.
Veritools is an EDA company in the United States that designs and
sells the very popular and widely used Undertow and Undertow Suite
software that provides waveform viewing of almost all analog and
digital simulators and source code debugging of Verilog, VHDL and
System C.
About Magma Design Automation
Magma software is used to design fast, multimillion-gate
integrated circuits, providing "The Fastest Path from RTL to
Silicon"(TM), enabling chip designers to reduce the time required to
produce complex ICs. Magma's products for prototyping, synthesis, and
place & route provide a single executable for RTL-to-GDSII chip
design. The company's Blast Create(TM), Blast Fusion(R), Blast Fusion
APX(TM), Blast Plan(TM) and Blast Noise(R) products utilize Magma's
patented FixedTiming(R) methodology and single data model architecture
to reduce the timing-closure iterations often required between the
logic and physical processes in conventional IC design flows. Magma
also provides PALACE(TM) and ArchEvaluator(TM) advanced physical
synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable logic
devices (PLDs).The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker
symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at
www.magma-da.com.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters set forth in this press release, including statements that the
combination of Magma and Veritools technology will allow designers to
find errors in the design intent using a familiar debug environment
and about the features and benefits of Magma's system, are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor"
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
including, but not limited to, Magma's ability to keep pace with
rapidly changing technology and its products ability to produce
desired results. Further discussion of these and other potential risk
factors may be found in Magma's Form 10-K for the year ended March 31,
2003 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on
June 20, 2003, and from time to time in Magma's SEC reports. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Magma
disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Magma, Blast Fusion, Blast Noise and FixedTiming are registered
trademarks, and ArchEvaluator, Blast RTL, Blast Fusion APX, Blast
Plan, Blast Rail, "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon," and PALACE
are trademarks of Magma Design Automation. Broadcom(R) is a trademark
of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and
certain other countries. All other product and company names are
trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Magma Design Automation Inc.
Monica Marmie, 408-565-7689
monical@magma-da.com
