January 22, 2007 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and TOOL Corp. have announced the integration of Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification solution and TOOL's LAVIS layout visualization platform. Through an easy-to-use GUI, these high-performance, high-capacity tools speed physical verification and debug, accelerate turnaround time and reduce development costs of very large nanometer IC designs.

Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS provide fully scalable physical verification with distributed processing, enabling physical verification of entire multimillion-gate chips in 2 hours. LAVIS, capable of handling very large designs, provides a fast visual platform for reviewing verification results. Identified errors can be organized into cell or error type, letting users debug them sequentially by viewing them quickly and conveniently on LAVIS. There is no need to wait until DRC jobs complete. Moreover, because LAVIS allows editing a small portion of a large amount of data, users can also fix errors while checking identified errors in the same environment. "

Design complexity increases substantially at 65, 45 and 32 nanometers, and with traditional solutions, physical verification is extremely time consuming at those geometries," said John Lee, General Manager of Magma's Physical Verification Business Unit. "Quartz DRC, Quartz LVS and LAVIS share speed and capacity advantages over other solutions, providing dramatic acceleration of physical verification, debugging of multimillion-gate designs and significant reduction of turnaround time and costs."

About Quartz DRC, Quartz LVS, and LAVIS

Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are fully scalable physical verification solutions. Leveraging a unique architecture and advanced modeling capabilities, these products allow affordable massively distributed processing of DRC and LVS comparison and integrate inherent DFM knowledge into physical verification. According to Magma, with this technology virtually any design can be physically verified in 2 hours.