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The IBM/Chartered/Samsung Common Platform is an advanced technology platform based on leading-edge process technologies at the 45-nm, 65-nm and 90-nm technology nodes, with a roadmap to 32 nm. With it, a single design can be manufactured at any of the companies’ fabs. This comprehensive and open ecosystem allows customers to share IP and design rules, potentially reducing development costs.
Since 2003, Magma has been developing reference flows with the Common Platform and providing enablement kits to the design community. The advanced, low-power 65-nm Common Platform reference flow enables designers to address low-power design considerations such as multi-Vdd, Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and automatic MTCMOS insertion during implementation within a single RTL-to-GDSII environment. This capability helps minimize power consumption of the design while reducing die size and improving turnaround time.
The 65nm Common Platform DFM solution is based on Magma’s DFM-aware design environment which accounts for process variability and lithographic effects in context of timing, power, noise and yield. With this flow, Magma and the Common Platform technology alliance enable mutual customers to meet their performance, yield and time-to-market goals.