Magma expands Titan mixed-signal design platform

Titan Analog Layout Accelerator (ALX) and Titan Analog Virtual Prototyper (AVP) expand the Titan mixed-signal design platform and are part of a set of plug-and-play analogue design solutions known as Titan accelerators.

Based on analogue design technology and featuring new capabilities and compatibility with existing analogue tool flows, the Titan accelerators deliver an order-of-magnitude productivity improvement for analogue-/mixed-signal layout designers.

Titan ALX automatically migrates an existing analogue layout to a new target technology without any DRC violations while preserving analogue design intent.

Titan AVP creates fast and accurate device-level prototypes and captures layout-dependent proximity effects early in the circuit design phase.

Early visibility into parasitic R and C, as well as proximity effects such as shallow trench isolation (STI) stress, well proximity effect (WPE), oxide-definition-to-oxide-definition (OD-OD) spacing and poly-to-poly spacing accelerate schematic-layout convergence.

Titan AVP also includes a detailed device placement engine that produces a high-quality, DRC-clean layout.

The capabilities delivered in these two new Titan accelerators reduce the analogue layout creation time.

According to Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma's custom design business unit, the company's analogue design layout tools allow chipmakers to build differentiated analogue products faster, accelerate the adoption of newer process technologies and achieve a higher return on design investment.

Titan ALX and Titan AVP will be in production release in June 2010.