Quartz Rail

Quartz™ Rail is a power sign-off solution for nanometer designs. With integrated power analysis and planning, voltage-drop analysis, voltage-drop-induced delay analysis and electromigration analysis on rail wires and vias, Quartz Rail enables designers to maintain power integrity in their designs. Quartz Rail is a standalone power integrity tool that can also be fully integrated with Magma’s RTL-to-GDSII implementation flow for correct-byconstruction rail design.

Complete methodology for power and rail analysis throughout the design flow minimizes power integrity problems and limits postlayout analysis and repair.
Transient analysis accounts for sudden changes in power consumption by considering decoupling capacitors and package inductance.
Embedded power analysis accounts for static, dynamic and short circuit power.
Thermal analysis capability accounts for temperature impact on leakage power.
Concurrent timing, IR-drop, power and thermal analysis minimize design iterations.
Embedded characterization capability for switching-current waveform and intrinsic de-coupling capacitance increases accuracy.
Accurate memory modeling enables full-chip, dynamic IR-drop analysis.
Intelligent guidance for decap insertion based on transient analysis helps optimize leakage power and improve yield.
GUI-based visualization and what-if analysis capabilities enable users to plan and define optimal power grid configurations.
Accurate macromodeling and abstraction of intellectual property (IP) and soft macro blocks leverage Magma’s unique GlassBox™ technology.
Unified data model architecture provides increased speed and capacity along with instant access to analysis data that enables automatic correction
Interfaces with industry-standard simulators and supports standard file formats including precharacterized power libraries.