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Producing Full-Custom Performance with ASIC Effort

Our engineering services can provide complete chip designs, high performance processor cores, datapaths, memories, and cell libraries.

Remember when the only design approach was "full custom" — where everything was a manual task and took a long time? By the late 70's most IC companies and EDA vendors had come to realize that design time was the limiting factor in the growth of the IC industry, not process technology.

Micro Magic, Inc. provides integrated circuit design services, as well as tools, for high-speed digital systems including processors, memory sub-systems, and complete IC designs. These services include architecture through circuit design and layout, consultation, and methodology review and development.

Take advantage of Micro Magic's "plug and play" solution, where you use our experts —using the proven tools they developed— and an existing design or new idea. We'll take it from there, instantly removing all of the obstacles that are getting in the way of getting to market. You won't need to research tools or integrate them into a design flow; you won't need to put together a design team. You'll be out the door with a design flow that is scalable and transferable, with the confidence that your product will work the first time!

  • Gate Optimizer Service

    Give MMI your design data — We'll give you a better design »

    Gate Optimizer Service

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    Our Gate Optimizer Service will improve performance and decrease power consumption of your digital circuit.

    MMI has new software that walks through your P&R block, upsizing gates where needed to increase performance while it simultaneously decreases gate sizes whenever it can to save power.

    There is also an option of decreasing power only which will not require any changes to your DEF placement file.

    Nothing to Buy — It’s a service.
    No tools to buy.
    Our engineers do the work.

    You supply the design data (Verilog, DSPF/SPEF, .LIB files) and we'll return an improved design quickly, at a very reasonable cost. You only pay if we can improve your design.

    It's Better, or It's Free
    You only pay if we can improve your design.
    — Risk Free! — You Only Pay for Success
    • Faster and/or Lower Power
    There are two options with this service:
    • Faster/Lower Power outcome - with resized Verilog; or
    • Lower Power Only option with no change to the DEF file.

  • Short Finder Service

    We'll find your Vdd/GND short!
    MMI engineers, using MAX-3D Layout software, crawl thru all layers of your design and search all nets for shorts — in just minutes.

  • 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.

 
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