Wintegra selects Magma's Talus as IC implementation platform for low-power, high-performance 65nm chips

SAN JOSE, USA: Magma Design Automation Inc. announced that Wintegra, a leading provider of access processing semiconductors and software for next-generation telecommunication infrastructure solutions, has selected Magma's Talus 1.1 IC implementation software.

Wintegra uses the Talus platform, which includes Talus Vortex, Talus Design and Talus Power Pro, because it offers integrated capabilities that enable Wintegra to incorporate more functionality in a single chip while reducing power consumption, area and cost.

Wintegra provides a wide range of communication platforms used by many of the leading telecom and networking equipment manufacturers worldwide. "As the complexity of our designs increased, we needed a solution that was able to meet our performance and power requirements," said Yoram Yeivin, senior vice president of Engineering at Wintegra.

"We chose Magma's Talus because it provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII flow that enables us to meet timing requirements while reducing power on 65-nanometer designs. It's easy to adopt, too. Our transition to the Magma flow was smooth and accomplished in less than six weeks."

"Doing more with less is key in today's electronics industry," said Premal Buch, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Talus' advanced capabilities, high level of automation and integrated approach improve designer productivity. That is why companies such as Wintegra are moving to Talus to deliver more complex designs and better results while minimizing development costs."

Magma's Talus IC implementation software provides advanced capabilities for high-speed, low-power designs within an integrated and highly automated RTL-to-GDSII flow.

Talus Design allows logic designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve RTL code quality, design constraints, testability requirements and floorplan. Talus Design also integrates fast, full-featured, high-capacity predictable synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static timing analysis, and power analysis.

Talus Vortex, Magma's physical design solution, includes optimization, place and route, useful skew clock generation, power planning, RC extraction and a single, built-in incremental timing analyzer. The system leverages the Talus COre (Concurrent Optimizing Routing Engine) technology to apply the full scope of timing optimization incrementally during routing.

Based on Magma's unified data model, the Talus platform accurately predicts final timing before detailed placement, eliminates timing closure iterations and enables rapid design closure while taking into account nanometer effects such as on-chip variation (OCV).

Talus Power Pro provides advanced power optimization and management capabilities, and implements multiple power-saving design strategies to achieve maximum power reduction. The complete Talus system integrates low-power analysis and optimization engines throughout the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow.

The system supports advanced techniques such as native multi-Vt, automated multi-voltage designs, adaptive voltage scaling using concurrent multicorner optimization and multi-Vdd, and physical implementation that meets leading foundries' nanometer dynamic and leakage power requirements.