Fastrack Announces Support for RTL Synthesis Using Magma's Blast Create
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 13, 2003—
Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a
provider of chip design solutions, today announced that Fastrack
Design Inc. has delivered a turnkey design exclusively using Magma's
RTL-to-GDS flow.
"We have taped out designs from netlist to GDSII using Magma's
Blast Fusion physical design system," said Moazzem Hossain, president
and CEO of Fastrack Design. "One common struggle we had in all of them
was the inability to predict the design performance of our customer's
netlist. We took some of our customer's RTL through Magma's Blast
Create and found that the use of a single set of constraints from
start to finish guided us smoothly to timing closure, with
improvements in area and power. Not having to iterate through the
design process and not having to switch timing constraints between
design and implementation improved productivity and turnaround time;
these were the most important benefits to our engineers and the
customer. We are now designing a 3.6-million-gate turnkey system
operating at 350 MHz using Blast Create and Blast Fusion."
"We're very pleased with Fastrack's design success," said Yatin
Trivedi, director of product marketing at Magma. "Their decision to
adopt Blast Create is a strong endorsement of the unique benefit of
having an integrated system and only one library and a single set of
constraints for the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow."
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 Fastrack Design, Inc.
Fastrack Design, Inc. (www.fastrack-design.com) is a design
services start-up with its headquarters in San Jose, Calif. Fastrack
provides turnkey ASIC design services. Fastrack customers have
achieved significant improvement on their design productivity by
working with Fastrack on their ASICs.
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 the 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 about
Fastrack using Magma software on a 3.6-million-gate design 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, its products ability to produce desired results and
Fastrack's decision to continue using Magma's software. 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
