Magma, Virage create design flow for ASIC, cell libraries

Magma Design Automation Inc. and Virage Logic Corp. have jointly produced a design flow that works for both structured-ASIC and standard cell libraries. Magma's Blast Fusion support for Virage Logic's area, speed and power (ASAP) Logic metal programmable libraries has been validated by both companies and will be added to existing support for the ASAP logic standard cell libraries.

Both Magma and Virage believe that this design flow will enable mutual customers to make trade-offs between density, cost and performance according to their requirements. In addition, customers will also be able to use Magma's standard ASIC design flow and Virage Logic's libraries that include all the necessary requirements and constraints for their structured ASIC designs.