Table of Contents
Design closure
Overview
Magma: Melting Logical and Physical Design
The ‘long wire problem’
Conventional tool flow
Conventional flow
Conservatism costs area
Magma FixedTiming™
Magma flow (simplified)
FixedTiming: area is additive
Focus for timing closure
Delay depends on ‘gain’
Fast circuit design on a napkin
'Sizing-driven' placement
Summary FixedTiming
“Common Database” Architecture
Magma unified data model
Magma Volcanoes
Unified data model is key for USDM
The painful truth about RTL-to-GDS tool interoperability
Why don’t exchange formats work?
Non-problems
Outlooks
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