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News Articles / Press Releases

3-Dimensional Integrated Circuit for Cellular Automata
A presentation by Cosmaic
Utilizing technology from Tezzaron and Micro Magic, Inc.


Building 3D-ICs: Tool Flow and Design Software Part 1 EETimes
By Robert Patti
Tezzaron Semiconductor

EETimes Building 3D-ICs: Tool Flow and Design Software Part 2
By Robert Patti
Tezzaron Semiconductor

3D EDA Tools – Coming out of the Woodwork
Francoise VonTrapp
InCites

Micro Magic's MAX LAYOUT EDITOR Will Demonstrate Realtime Redisplay of a One Trillion Transistor Chip at 43rd DAC
World's Largest Layout Showcases EDA Tool's Capabilities
-- Press Release

Reborn Micro Magic offers EDA,
Design Services
by Richard Goering -- EE Times

Micro Magic Reemerges
By Michael Santarini, EDN -- Electronic News

Micro Magic Back in Business with Revised Suite of Tools
Original Team Has Re-Formed the Company and is Offering Radically Enhanced Software for the Design of SoCs
-- Press Release

Schematic-Driven IC Layout Editor Accelerates SoC Design
-- Electronic Design

Trimming a Third off I/O Power Use
-- Electronics Times

Openness among EDA vendors will aid growth
Mark Santoro -- EE Times

High-End Services Firm Taps I/O
Gale Morrison -- Electronic News

Design Boutique Helps Malleable
Gale Morrison -- Electronic News

ASICs Join Full-Custom Flow
Hybrid Approach Brings 300% Performance Gains
Richard C Smith -- EE Times

IC-CAD tools to show dazzling advances
Richard Goering -- EE Times

CAD Veteran Richard Smith joins
Micro Magic, Inc. as Senior Technical Advisor
-Press Release-

New MAX-LS from Micro Magic, Inc. Dramatically Accelerates SoC Design
Schematic-Driven Layout System Is the Fastest Available for Any Size IC Design
--Press Release

Design Methodology for Quickly and Accurately Generating SRAMs
Tavrow, Johnson, Santoro
-- as published in EE Times

Micro Magic Shipping Chip Layout Software
-- Electronic News

Micro Magic, Inc. Announces Major Sale of EDA Software to SiByte, Inc.
SiByte standardizes on MMI Software and Methodology for Low-power, High-speed IC Design
--Press Release

Discovering a Reluctant New
EDA Tool Vendor
Jonah McLeod -- ISD Magazine

 

White Papers / Other Technical Writing

Quarterly Technical Report project:
High Speed CMOS Analog-to-Digital Circuit for Radio Frequency Signal
Kyusun Choi

Design Considerations for Databus Charge Recovery
( PDF format)
Bishop, Lyuboslavsky, Vijaykrishnan, Irwin
-- Designed using Micro Magic tools

Institute of Micro Electronics
- Research activities
-- including Micro Magic tools

Design Methodology for Quickly and Accurately Generating SRAMs
- Original Paper
 Tavrow, Johnson, Santoro

Fast Iteration: A Performance Design Requirement
 Richard Smith

Impact of process scaling on the efficacy of leakage reduction schemes
( PDF format)
Tsai, Duarte, Vijaykrishnan, Irwin
-- Intel Corporation

Challenges and Methodologies for Implementing High-Performance Network Processors
( PDF FORMAT)
Bhamidipati, Zaidi, Makineni, Low, Chen, Liu, Dahlgren
-- Intel Corporation,
       Intel Technical Journal

Micro Magic's University Program

Micro Magic University IC Design Program Serves Leading Schools Worldwide
Including U.C. Berkley, Stanford, University of Adelaide, and Penn State

Penn State Graduate Degree Programs Bulletin - Research Facilities
features Micro Magic EDA tools

  • Founder: Mark Santoro


    Mark Santoro, PhD

    Co-Founder and President
    PhD Stanford 1990
    Invented 4:2 trees
    Born Florida 1957
       He holds 9 patents and loves his dogs.
    After working for such companies as Vector General, Weitek, Apple Computer & Sun Microsystems Dr. Santoro cofounded MMI in Jan 1995, where he served as President & CEO.
    Dr Santoro invented 4:2 trees as part of his PhD dissertation which are used in most modern multiplier architectures.

  • Founder: Lee Tavrow


    Lee Tavrow, PhD

    Co-Founder and Chief Engineer
    PhD MIT 1991
    Born California 1964
      He holds 13 patents, but still seems lucky.
    After working at Digital Equipment Corporation & Sun Microsystems, Dr. Tavrow cofounded Micro Magic as Vice President and chief engineer.

  • A Sample of MMI Successes

    • Ternary CAM with Embedded Processor
    • Network Processor
    • VoIP Processor
    • Embedded High Speed SRAM
    • Custom Register File
    • Low Power Memory
    • 26-Million-Transistor Processor.

We challenge anyone, anywhere to design a faster chip faster than we can, without using our services or our tools.

  • 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.