Genesys, Magma Unveil Automated Design-for-Test
Solution Integrating ArraytestMaker and Blast Create;
Simplifies Design Flow for Memory BIST Insertion
eSilicon Incorporates Genesys-Magma Solution into 3.2-million-cell, 500 Mhz device; Demonstration at ITC October 24-26
eSilicon Corporation, the
industry’s leading supplier of custom integrated circuits (ICs), has
successfully incorporated the Genesys-Magma DFT solution into the physical
design of a 3.2-million-cell, 500 Mhz device. The
Genesys-Magma solution provided eSilicon rapid turnaround
for memory BIST insertion and optimized area and performance of the BIST logic.
“By using the ArraytestMaker
software with BIST capability within the Blast Create flow, we were able to
successfully perform the automated insertion of test, diagnosis and repair
circuits for a highly complex customer design with 250 memory instances,” said Hao Nham, vice president and general
manager of Design Services, eSilicon Corporation. “This
solution simplified our design flow by eliminating the need to import and export
design data, and provided faster timing closure with its memory-floorplan-driven test methodology.”
“We are pleased to
report the successful implementation of ArraytestMaker
in the Blast Create RTL-to-GDSII design flow at eSilicon,”
said Bejoy Oomman, president, Genesys Testware. “We are particularly excited
that the manufacturing experts at eSilicon chose the
Genesys-Magma solution for volume production.”
The Genesys-Magma solution provides
automated insertion of circuits to optimize yield and quality of embedded
memory. This automated insertion is performed during synthesis within the Blast
Create RTL-to-placed gates flow. The Tcl interface to
Magma’s unified data model is used to create synthesis scripts for automated
insertion inside the ArraytestMaker software. By
streamlining the interoperability and increasing automation, the Genesys-Magma
solution eliminates extra steps and accelerates the design flow.
“Integrating the automated insertion of
circuits to optimize memory yield and quality using Blast Create in ArraytestMaker provides a strong added design value for end
users,” said Kam Kittrell, general
manager of Magma’s Design Implementation Business Unit. “Many of our mutual
customers will find this effortless automation of testability and
manufacturability extremely useful.”
About
Genesys Testware
Genesys Testware, Inc. provides tools to
improve yield, quality and cost of nanometer ICs. Its products are all
silicon-proven in various customer designs. For more information, please visit
the company’s web site at http://www.genesystest.com.
About Magma
Magma’s software for integrated circuit (IC) design is recognized as embodying the best in semiconductor
technology. The world's top chip companies use Magma's EDA software to design
and verify complex, high-performance ICs for communications, computing,
consumer electronics and networking applications,
while at the same time reducing design time and costs. Magma provides software
for IC implementation, analysis, physical verification, characterization and
programmable logic design, and the company's integrated RTL-to-GDSII design
flow offers "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon"™. Magma is
headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. with offices around the world. Magma's
stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA.
Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com
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press release, including statements that the Genesys-Magma solution provides automated insertion of circuits to optimize yield and quality
of embedded memory, and that it
eliminates the need for extra steps in the design flow, and about the features and
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