BANGALORE, INDIA: Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of chip design software, has announced Titan, the first full-chip mixed-signal design, analysis and verification platform. Unlike other design solutions, Titan tightly integrates mixed-signal implementation with digital implementation, circuit simulation, transistor-level extraction and verification –- providing a quantum leap in efficiency and productivity for analog designers.

As Titan is based on Magma's unified data model, it works seamlessly with Magma's Talus digital IC implementation, FineSim circuit simulation, QuickCap TLx transistor-level extraction (also announced) and Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification products. As a result, analog and digital design teams are no longer isolated and can have clear visibility into their counterparts' design space.

Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and chief executive officer, said, "With Talus for digital design and Titan for mixed signal, we have achieved a level of integration that the electronic design automation industry has never before provided chip designers."

Today, analog design flows and teams are isolated from the digital world. Analog ICs are still largely full-custom and are painstakingly crafted by hand. In addition to being time-consuming and prone to error, this transistor-level design style does not allow an existing design to be easily transferred to a new foundry or process/technology node.

Instead, the migration of such a design effectively requires the circuit to be re-implemented from the ground up. With Titan, analog designers will still apply their expertise in defining the first circuit topology, but porting to new nodes will be significantly easier.