A collaboration between Magma Design Automation and ChipX has produced a unified RTL-to-GDSII structured ASIC design flow. Based on Magma's Blast Create and Blast Fusion tools, the flow supports ChipX's CX5000 family of structured-ASIC devices. The companies' mutual customers as well as ChipX itself will use it to deliver structured-ASIC designs or to migrate FPGA designs to the CX5000 parts.

Among the advantages offered by the

Magma/ChipX flow are structure-specific optimizations to maximize area utilization and performance. Physical-synthesis

technology tailored for the ChipX architecture handles physical site constraints and overlapping site locations. This

technology lets the tools select and efficiently place the correct implementation of a functional cell to meet

design-specific requirements.