June 12, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (NASDAQ: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, announced that QuickCap(r) NX has been certified to support the parasitic extraction and modeling accuracy requirements of the TSMC iRCX format for integrated circuits targeting 65-nanometer and 40-nm processes.

With the consistent data provided by the iRCX format, designers can use Magma QuickCap NX to extract accurate parasitic-capacitance values based on the truest 3D representation of the physical circuit. Accurate capacitance values are critical for calculating many properties of chip performance, including capacitive crosstalk, RC delay time and power consumption. With QuickCap NX and the iRCX format, designers can more accurately predict IC performance prior to manufacturing, allowing them to either make modifications or proceed with confidence in achieving silicon success.

The TSMC iRCX is an interoperable interconnect modeling data format that ensures the accuracy of resistance/capacitance extractors, electromigration tools, power integrity analysis tools and electromagnetic simulators. iRCX is the first of several interoperable EDA interface formats co-developed between TSMC and its design tool partners as part of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform(tm) .

“At the 40-nm and 65-nm nodes, the ability to generate accurate interconnect models at a high frequency can create a bottleneck in the design flow,” said Tom Quan, deputy director, Design Service Marketing at TSMC. “By working together to qualify QuickCap NX for TSMC iRCX format, TSMC and Magma ensure designers have the most accurate models, breaking design flow bottlenecks and enabling first-pass design success.”

“TSMC has been using QuickCap NX as the standard deviation comparison target for RC extraction tools on special pattern structures and real design samples,” said Premal Buch, general manager of Magma’s Design Implementation Business Unit. “The TSMC qualification of QuickCap NX for the iRCX format provides our mutual customers with further confidence that Magma’s 3D field solver is the industry gold standard for parasitic extraction.”

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