Magma Announces Talus Design 1.1 and Talus RTL 1.1 -- Enhanced Synthesis Products Deliver New Capabilities, Reference Flows and Interfaces

Magma Design Automation Inc.a provider of chip design software, today announced the availability of Talus® Design 1.1 and Talus RTL 1.1, Magma's full-chip synthesis products for advanced integrated circuits. Capabilities in these new versions include GlassBox™ abstraction technology; enhanced optimization algorithms; RTL-to-GDSII reference flows for leading IP providers including ARM, MIPS and Imagination Technologies (see related announcement today); and additional interfaces for commonly used third-party design-for-test (DFT) and formal verification tools. These enhanced synthesis products with new out-of-the box synthesis flows eliminate the need to develop customized scripts, significantly reducing the time and effort required to achieve timing, area and power goals.

Design teams are facing increasing pressure to achieve more with less and to reduce design iterations and turnaround time while meeting performance objectives, said Premal Buch, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. To help designers address these challenges, Magma created version 1.1 of the Talus RTL-to-GDSII solution to deliver optimal quality of results out of the box. The recent enhancements to the Talus synthesis products provide designers with all the capabilities they need to generate high-quality netlists. Plus, the seamless integration with Magma's Talus Vortex implementation solution provides our users with increased confidence in achieving excellent results while shortening the time to final design closure.

Using Talus Design within Magma's Talus implementation system has allowed us to significantly improve our productivity and time to market, said Andreas Olofsson, president of Adapteva, a manufacturer of multi-core processors that provide ultra low-energy solutions for high-performance portable applications. The Magma system delivers outstanding turnaround time; it enabled us to complete our most recent multimillion-gate 65-nanometer design in just 6 weeks. The tight link between Talus Design and Talus Vortex also provided the platform we needed to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in power and performance.

We use Magma's complete RTL-to-GDSII solution, including Talus Design, said Mats Löfling, vice president ASIC and Hardware Development for Xelerated, a leading provider of high-performance network processors. The tight integration between Talus Design and Talus Vortex helps us achieve our demanding high-performance targets quickly and efficiently.