Magma Design Automation Inc. announced Hydra(TM) 1.1, an enhanced version of Magma's hierarchical design planning solution for large systems on a chip (SoCs). The new version features out-of-the-box reference flows for channel-style, near-abutment, full-abutment, black-box, repeated-block and multi-power domain methodologies, allowing designers to get started quickly and combine these various approaches easily. New advanced capabilities and enhanced ease of use enable faster delivery of better floorplans. Hydra 1.1 features a hierarchical flow manager that enables designers to deliver higher quality floorplans faster. Reference flows for commonly used design styles such as channel based, near abutment and black box are available. Support for more complex flows such as full abutment, repeated block and multi-power domains that are compliant with both the Unified Power Format (UPF) and Common Power Format (CPF), is also provided. These unique reference flows can be used in any combination to obtain an optimal floorplan. They also enable design teams to perform design feasibility analysis at strategic points in the flow to evaluate early netlist quality, floorplan routability and performance goals.

Magma Design Automation Inc. announced BoardView(TM), a new software that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). BoardView is the only commercially available tool to integrate IC and PCB circuit debug with online signal trace and CAD navigation. With BoardView, fab teams can rapidly trace signals on the PCB from chips to board and back again and then quickly navigate failure analysis tools to X, Y locations to determine the cause of the fault. BoardView leverages Magma's Camelot(TM) technology, the industry standard for IC CAD navigation and circuit debug, to trace signals between the chip and the board. 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 BoardView and Camelot's MaskView.

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