Magma Design Joins SOI Consortium
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 3/10/2008 5:54:00 PM
The SOI Industry Consortium said design software company Magma Design Automation Inc. (San Jose) has joined the organization as a technical member, raising the membership to 21 companies.
The initiative, formed last October with 19 original members, is aimed at accelerating silicon on insulator (SOI) adoption, particularly in consumer markets.
The other SOI consortium members include: AMD, Applied Materials, ARM, Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Innovative Silicon, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, NXP, Samsung, Semico, Soitec, SEH Europe, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, TSMC and UMC.
"Magma has worked very closely with leading SOI foundries and library suppliers," said Yatin Trivedi, Magma's director of Industry Partnership Programs. "Magma already supports SOI characterization and timing methodology with our industry-standard SiliconSmart characterization system, and our physical verification system, Quartz DRC, fully supports the requirements for SOI, and has runset support for 65, 45 and 32 nm processes. Our participation as a technical member in the SOI Consortium is an extension of these efforts."
"We welcome Magma's participation in the SOI Industry Consortium," said Andre-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, chairman of the consortium. "With Magma's expertise in developing design tools that address the low-power, complexity and high-performance requirements of SOI-based chips, there is a natural convergence of interests with the consortium. The widening availability of tools and services is good news for designers in the fabless/foundry arena considering the move to SOI."
