November 15, 2011 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced SystemNav, a next-generation tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from ICs to stacked die, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). SystemNav is the only commercially available tool that integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online trace and circuit debugging with CAD navigation. SystemNav allows rapid signal traces on chips, stacked dies and MCMs and PCBs. With SystemNav, fab teams can trace signals from chip to board, back to chip and then quickly navigate failure analysis tools to X, Y locations to determine the root cause of the fault.

"With this next-generation SystemNav, we offer more comprehensive capabilities, including localizing and tracing faults to, from and through commonly used stacked dies," said Ankush Oberai, General Manager and Vice President of Magma's Yield Management Business Unit. "Its ability to shorten the time required for fault isolation and root cause analysis makes SystemNav a must-have for today's fab teams."

Like BoardView, Magma's first-generation tool, SystemNav leverages Magma's Camelot IC CAD navigation and circuit debug to trace signals between the chip and the board. Its framework is both extensible and modular enabling many new features and functions, such as 3D cross-sectioning and schematic cross mapping. It reads industry-standard PCB and chip layout formats and displays them graphically. Formats supported include OASIS, Virtuoso, Gerber, GDSII and AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format (DXF). Chip layouts are loaded from the Camelot database.