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MAX Family Layout Editors

MAX-3D, MAX-LS, MAX, MAX-View, all with 3D editing and display

MAX Layout Editors -- speed, power, ease-of-use -- able to load, view, and edit designs of more than one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) devices in real time.

MAX is the fastest Layout System on the planet. Benchmarks have proven MAX to be 50X faster in displaying physical layout data. All MAX Layout tools offer 3-D VIEWING of layout.

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MAX-3D: True 3-D TSV Layout
Three distinct wafers: Turning visibility on/off, and tracing net sbetween different wafers

MAX-3D enables 'Through-Silicon Via Wafer Stack' Technology - a technology allowing faster interconnects between discrete wafers. This is accomplished by connecting wafers of varying technologies together with vias through the wafers yielding a single 3-D stacked chip.

MAX3D topview 3chips
A still from the video above. This is showing the top-most view, with all chips and all layers visibility turned "on"
Here, a small loop to illustrate the ease of generating complex busses, and 3D display.
MAX-LS: Schematic-Driven Layout
Demonstration of layout and cross-probing: (1 min)
The ease of wiring-up a circuit; selecting a net; seeing that net on the schematic; then changing the schematic and observing the change on the layout.

Schematic-Driven Layout: Cross-probing Between Schematic & Layout

MAX-LS features true Schematic-Driven Layout Design, offering the ability to interactively generate layout that is DRC- and LVS-correct with devices automatically sized.

The video above demonstrates - in real time - the ease of doing layout and cross-probing; literally as simple as the click of a menu button.

MAX-LS Layout System seamlessly integrates the schematic capture of SUE with the MAX layout editor to provide true, schematic-driven physical layout. It includes interactive cell generation based on LVS and DRC correct layout, and can handle the largest SoC IC design databases. Its GDSII output can go directly to mask composition products for IC fabrication.

MAX: Full-featured Layout
MAX Layout Interactive DRC
(15 sec loop) A feature with all of MMI's layout editors is interactive DRC, shown here as white dots

•Real-time Interactive DRC and Connectivity Tracing
•50X faster, with schematic-driven layout
• Integrated Calibre® Interface
•OpenAccess and IPL support

MAX Layout Editor comes with continuous DRC, connectivity tracing, schematic cross-probing, wiring tool, extraction, schematic-driven layout, and more

Auto Bus wiring anim
All of MMI's layout editors offer automatic bus wiring (15sec loop)
MAX-View Layout Viewer
MAX-View Layout Viewer
Very large chip loaded into MAX-View
Trillion running
Portion of an ultra-large chip displayed in 3-dimensional view: One Trillion Transistors! Real Time Redisplay.

Load and view your largest designs

MAX-View Layout Viewer lets you load and view any size layout, in REAL TIME.

MAX-View imports GDSII and .max files, as well as other industry standard technology files. Customize layer display settings; push, pop, and view cell internals; explore cell hierarchy and connectivity tracing -- all with instantaneous re-display.

MAX Layout Editors Feature Comparison chart

MAX features comparison chart
Chart showing features of different members of MAX Family
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Micro Magic's
MAX Layout Editors

  • NEW! 3D-MAX System: Chip/Package/PC Board Editing All In One
  • MAX-3D: True 3D TSV Wafer Stack technology
  • MAX-LS: Schematic-Driven Layout
  • MAX: Full-Featured Layout
  • MAX-View: Layout Viewer with 3D Layout display

  • About MMI

    Incorporated in 1995, Micro Magic, Inc. is the industry leader in true 3-dimensional TSV layout tools. Click here for the full story

  • How We Work

    Engineers from Micro Magic meet with your engineers and management, to discuss the best solution to the problem or problems in the chip design. Some issues are smaller, and more easily remedied; some are larger and will require more involvement. Micro Magic's intention is to provide the most efficient solution utilizing your current design flow and our development tools. Our engineers can either do the work off-site, in house, or provide the MMI tool(s) and advice for a plug-n-play augmentation to your existing flow.

  • Points of Interest

    Trying to achieve the performance we needed from commercially-available tools just wasn't working. Over the course of several years, Micro Magic's engineers wound up writing their own tools to help get chips out. Our design services history is unmatched for making tapeout on time. Of course, our clients began to notice that MMI engineers were more efficient, more productive, and started asking about the tools. We responded by making them available to other engineers,and in 1995 the first versions of MAX and SUE were ready for the public..

  • Contact Us

    Micro Magic, Inc.
    Sunnyvale, CA
    408.414.7647 x202
    info at micromagic.com.

 
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