Magma®
Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software,
announced today that SuVolta, Inc., a developer of scalable low-power CMOS
technologies in Los Gatos, Calif., has expanded its business relationship with
Magma by entering into a licensing agreement to use the FineSim™ SPICE
multi-CPU circuit simulator.
SuVolta’s PowerShrink™
low-power platform reduces the power consumed by integrated circuits (ICs) by
50 percent or more while maintaining the same performance levels by minimizing
the electrical variation of the millions of transistors on a chip. Using
FineSim SPICE, SuVolta reduced simulation runtime, enabling the design team to
increase test coverage by 4X without sacrificing accuracy.
“Our technology is used by
advanced semiconductor companies that require the highest level of accuracy in
verification of test chip data,” said Robert Rogenmoser, Ph.D.,
SuVolta’s senior vice president of Product Development and Engineering.
“Magma’s FineSim SPICE provides SuVolta with runtime improvements
to ensure our designs are of the highest quality.”
“SuVolta has emerged with
game-changing technology that significantly reduces power consumption,”
said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma’s Custom Design Business
Unit. “Their innovative approach is enhanced by the fast and accurate
simulation of FineSim SPICE.”
FineSim
SPICE: Fast and Accurate Simulation
FineSim SPICE is a SPICE-level
simulation analysis tool that incorporates transistor-level simulation analysis
capabilities for mixed-signal and analog designs. FineSim SPICE is a full SPICE
simulation engine with distributed processing that enables design teams to
simulate large-scale mixed-signal system chips at the transistor level. By
providing increased speed and capacity while maintaining full SPICE accuracy,
FineSim SPICE enables designers to simulate advanced circuits — such as
PLLs, ADCs (analog-to-digital converters), DACs (digital-to-analog converters)
and gigahertz SERDES (SERializer/DESerializer) — they would not have
attempted to test using slower traditional SPICE simulators.
About
SuVolta, Inc.
SuVolta, Inc.
develops and licenses scalable semiconductor technologies that enable a
significant reduction in IC power consumption while maintaining performance. Based in Silicon Valley, the team includes
world-class engineers and scientists with a long history of technology
development and innovation to advance the semiconductor industry. The company
is backed by leading venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
(KPCB), August Capital, NEA, Bright Capital, Northgate Capital and DAG
Ventures. For more information, visit www.suvolta.com.
About Magma
Leading semiconductor companies
worldwide use Magma’s electronic design automation (EDA) software to
produce chips for a wide variety of vertical markets including tablet
computing, mobile devices, electronic games, digital video, networking,
military/aerospace and memory. Silicon One, Magma’s technology solutions
for emerging silicon, address time to market, product differentiation, cost and
performance while making silicon more profitable. Magma products include
software for digital design, analog implementation, mixed-signal design,
physical verification, circuit simulation, characterization and yield
management. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices
throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma’s stock
trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at
www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma
Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Magma
is a registered trademark, and FineSim is a trademark of Magma Design
Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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