Magma Design Automation, Inc. : Magma Enables ZiiLABS to Double the Performance, Cut Power by Half on 100-Core ZMS-40 Processor
02/16/2012| 05:03pm US/Eastern
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma®
Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip
design software, today announced that ZiiLABS, a pioneering
media processor and platform company (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd), has implemented its
14th design using Magma's software. The
recently announced
100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor
combines 96 of ZiiLABS' StemCell media
processing cores with four 1.5GHz ARM
Cortex ™-A9 CPUs to deliver stunning multi-tasking
application and media processing performance and is optimized
for Android-based handheld and tablet computing applications.
By doubling the number of StemCell Media processors compared
to the previous ZMS-20, the ZMS-40 delivers twice the peak
media performance. Alternatively, the ZMS-40's larger
array can be run at lower clock speeds to achieve the same
performance as the ZMS-20 while consuming up to 50 percent
less power. The Magma software was instrumental in enabling
ZiiLABS to tape out the ZMS40 while maintaining an aggressive
design
schedule. As a result of this latest success, ZiiLABS will
deploy the Talus® 1.2 IC implementation system, Tekton™
static timin analysis, QCP™ extraction, FineSim™ SPICE
circuit simulation and Quartz™ DRC/LVS physical verification
solutions on i next-generation designs.
In 2000 ZiiLABS, then 3Dlabs, was the first company ever to
tape out a design using Magma's then nascent IC
implementation software. In commemoration of the first tape
out and in recognition of ZiiLABS' latest design
milestone, Magma presented ZiiLABS' Vice President of
Technical Strategy, Paul Pontin, with the SiliconOne
Leadership award.
"For over a decade, Magma has been instrumental in
allowing us to meet our customers' ever-increasing
demands for innovation, phenomenal performance and
value," said Pontin. "Magma software continues to
provide the most advanced features, capacity and turnaround
time and the company's responsive and professional
engineering support gives us complete confidence in our
ability to achieve silicon success."
"Our close, long-term relationship with ZiiLABS has been
invaluable in helping us understand the changing requirements
of the exploding handheld and tablet computing market,"
said Premal Buch. "As a result, we've been able to
leverage the tight integration enabled by Magma's
unified datamodel to develop a flow that provides better
efficiency and higher productivity while streamlining
deployment."
Magma: An Advanced Flow for Complex, Next-Generation Designs
The Magma flow provides several key capabilities that ensure
better quality of results and faster turnaround time for
complex, next-generation designs. The Talus IC implementation
solution includes advanced placement technology, robust
multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) clock tree synthesis and
advanced on-chip variation (AOCV)-aware full-flow MMMC
optimization, allowing designers to meet top-level timing
goals and ensure that total chip area is minimized. Tekton
performs extremely fast, multi- scenario analysis on a single
machine and provides the accuracy of existing sign-off
solutions. The QCP extractor provides
near-linear scalability on multi-processor machines as well
as highly efficient distributed processing to handle
increasing design sizes and the exploding number of corner
scenarios at 28 nm. FineSim SPICE multi-CPU/multi-machine
circuit simulator enables the simulation of very large
analog/mixed-signal designs with true SPICE accuracy. Quartz
DRC/LVS is the first truly scalable physical verification
solution, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an
order of magnitude faster than existing solutions while using
existing compute resources.
About Magma
Leading semiconductor companies worldwide, including 16 of
the top 20, 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 and Talus are registered trademarks and FineSim, QCP,
Quartz and Tekton are trademarks of Magma Design
Automation Inc. All other product, company and institution
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.
Forward-looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters set forth in this press release, including statements
that ZiiLABS will use Magma software on 28-nm designs and
statements about the features and benefits of Magma and
ZiiLABS product are forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially, including but not limited to ZiiLABS'
decision to continue using Magma software, the ability of
Magma and ZiiLABS products and services to produce the
desired results and the companies' abilities to keep
pace with rapidly changing technology. Further discussion of
these and other potential risk factors may be found in
Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (
www.sec.gov). The company undertakes no additional
obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: Magma Design Automation
Monica Marmie
Director, Corporate Marketing
(408) 565-7689 mmarmie@magma-da.com
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