Characterization

Magma library characterization products ensure silicon predictability and improve designer productivity

Library developers, IP vendors and COT design teams rely on abstract models to accurately represent the electrical behavior of circuits implemented with advanced process technologies. To meet the needs of these customers, the SiliconSmart product suite characterizes standard cells, I/O cells and embedded memories to provide robust timing, low-power, signal integrity and design for manufacturability (DFM) models in a variety of industry-standard formats. SiliconSmart offers accuracy, high throughput, support for a comprehensive range of standard formats and ease of use. When used with popular implementation and verification tools, these models offer silicon predictability and improved designer productivity. As a result, SiliconSmart models help customers shorten design cycles and improve chip performance.

The SiliconSmart base product and extensions include:

SiliconSmart® provides standard-cell and I/O characterization and modeling for all popular design flows and supports advanced timing and power modeling.
SiliconSmart HP (High Performance) embeds Magma’s high-speed SPICE simulator, FineSim™ SPICE, providing a 2x improvement in throughput and the shortest path to high-quality, production-ready nanometer models.
SiliconSmart DFM enables designers to tackle both systematic and random process variations. By reducing reliance on guard-banding techniques such as on-chip variation and by guiding the selection of higher-yielding cells, SiliconSmart DFM allows designers to increase yield.
SiliconSmart Sign-Off provides the advanced modeling constructs required for timing, power and noise analysis and repair flows.