Magma announces availability of Titan analog design kit for TSMC 180-nm/65-nm nodes

DAC 2011, SAN DIEGO, USA: Magma Design Automation announced immediate availability of the Titan Analog Design Kit for TSMC 180-nanometer (nm) and 65-nm processes, that implements Titan’s model-based design methodology with Titan FlexCells, which are modular, process- and specification-independent, reusable analog building blocks. The kit provides an analog design ecosystem that enables mutual Magma and TSMC customers to dramatically improve design quality and designer productivity.

The Titan Analog Design Kit design kit contains technology independent FlexCells, associated circuit schematics, symbols, test benches, complete documentation and a tutorial. Using the kit, Titan Analog Design Accelerator (Titan ADX), FlexCells, target process information and specifications, users can create an analog design that meets their specified requirements.

This unique new methodology enables very rapid analog design with re-usable FlexCell building blocks. The combination of FlexCells and Titan ADX’s state-of-the-art optimization engine enables designers to improve the quality and power/performance of their circuits.

The Titan Analog Design Kit also enables analog designers to quickly explore various design specifications and implement optimized designs. This allows TSMC customers a greater range of choices and more flexibility while designing critical analog IP. The design kit plugs directly into traditional analog design environments while reducing overall design time. The Titan Analog Design Kit including FlexCells will be supported by Magma.

“We are pleased to have worked with Magma to help validate the correlation between Titan ADX results and FineSim Spice.” said Suk Lee, director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC. “They have demonstrated, at 180 nm and 65 nm, that their analog optimization tool produces results, at those nodes, that are highly correlated to FineSim Spice, which is a TSMC qualified circuit simulator.”

“By leveraging Titan to automate key portions of the analog design flow and FlexCells to eliminate the need to re-create commonly used analog building blocks, this design kit offers significant advantages over traditional analog design flows,” said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. “By validating Titan FlexCells correlation to spice, TSMC supports Titan’s ability to make analog design faster and easier.”