Magma’s New SystemNav Speeds Board-Level Failure Analysis by Enabling Signal Trace between Chips, Stacked Dies, PCBs and MCMs

ISTFA, SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced SystemNav™, a next-generation tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (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.

 

“Since we introduced this unique technology in the BoardView product, we’ve worked closely with customers to identify and develop critical enhancements and build a more robust solution,” said Ankush Oberai, general manager and vice president of Magma’s Yield Management Business Unit. “With the next-generation SystemNav we offer more comprehensive capabilities, including localizing and tracing faults to, from and through commonly used stacked dies. Its ability to shorten the time required for fault isolation and root cause analysis makes SystemNav a must-have for today’s fab teams.”

SystemNav: Extending Industry-Standard Camelot CAD Navigation to Board-Level Debug

Like BoardView, Magma’s first-generation tool, SystemNav leverages Magma’s industry-standard 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.

 

For every chip on the board, the user can invoke both SystemNav and Camelot’s MaskView™. This enables the user to seamlessly move from an intra-die chip view of the layout and netlists using MaskView to a macro view of a signal trace from die to board using SystemNav, making fault tracing and diagnostics much easier.

 

Magma will feature SystemNav at the 37th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA) in Booth #102 Nov. 15-16 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

 

About Magma

Leading semiconductor companies worldwide 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

 

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Magma is a registered trademark and BoardView, Camelot, MaskView and SystemNav 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 SystemNav accelerates fault isolation and root cause analysis and about the features and benefits of Magma products 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 the ability of Magma’s products to produce the desired results and the company’s ability 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.

 

Contacts:

Monica Marmie

Director, Corporate Marketing

Magma Design Automation

(408) 565-7689

mmarmie[at]magma-da[dot]com

 

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