SiliconBlue and Magma partnering in providing FPGA design tools

SiliconBlue Technologies has signed technology partnership with Magma Design Automation. Both are working to provide a comprehensive FPGA design environment for SiliconBlue's iCE65T FPGA product line, which was introduced in June 08.

Under the agreement, Magma's advanced, timing-driven physical synthesis and placement technology tailored for SiliconBlue's iCE65 architecture has been fully integrated into SiliconBlue's iCEcubeT tool. The tools support standard constraint formats and provide comprehensive coverage of Verilog and VHDL languages. In addition, the tools take advantage of SiliconBlue's advanced NVCM (non-volatile configuration memory) technology at 65 nm and future process nodes.
The iCEcube 2008.9 can be downloaded from: www.siliconbluetech.com/iCube_development_software.php

"Our partnership with Magma gives us and our customers access to proven, state-of-the-art logic and physical synthesis tools," said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue. "The integration of these tools will allow SiliconBlue customers to take full advantage of the benefits of our unique low-cost, low-power iCE65 FPGA product line. We look forward to continuing our co-development work with Magma."

"Reducing chip development costs through increased productivity, improved results and faster turnaround time is a key advantage of the Magma software," said Kevin Moynihan, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "We're pleased to be working with SiliconBlue to make our superior technology available to a broader set of FPGA designers."