November 21, 2011 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Exar Corp. has adopted the Tekton static timing analysis and QCP extraction software to accelerate sign-off and engineering change order (ECO) flows for 40-nanometer systems on a chip (SOCs).

Exar selected the Magma solution after an extensive evaluation in which Tekton and QCP were shown to efficiently perform multi-mode multi-corner analysis and extraction, to deliver 5X faster runtime than traditional tools, and to provide sign-off quality results. Exar is now leveraging the Magma solution to shorten development cycles and accelerate shipment of next-generation devices to customers to meet dynamic market requirements

"Our migration to smaller process geometries (40nm and below) requires an exceptional timing-analysis platform that yields rapid and accurate results over an ever increasing number of timing scenarios," said George Apostol, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations, and Chief Technical Officer at Exar. "Enabling analysis of multiple timing modes simultaneously, Magma's Tekton and QCP with a multi-threaded capability for full-chip extraction gives us world-class performance to greatly shorten our time to tape-out schedules."

Tekton performs extremely fast, multi-scenario analysis on a single machine and provides the accuracy of existing sign-off solutions. Over a variety of designs with up to 50 scenarios and design sizes up to 30M instances, Tekton performed timing analysis, with OCV and crosstalk enabled, in less than one hour on a single machine.