Magma® Design Automation has become a founding member of the Open Process Design Kit (OpenPDK) Coalition sponsored by The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2).

By joining the Si2 OpenPDK Coalition, Magma intends to continue expanding its iPDK efforts supported by the Titan Mixed-Signal Platform. “The OpenPDK Coalition is an important step to opening the PDKs and offering greater industry efficiencies. With better interoperability in the custom design domain, our customers can fully exploit the advanced capabilities and features offered by the Titan Mixed-Signal Platform,” said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit.

The OpenPDK Coalition from Si2 will enable greater efficiency in PDK development, verification and delivery, and will provide equivalent support to all foundries, EDA tool vendors, intellectual property (IP) providers and end users. Its goal is to define a set of open standards for a PDK structure portable across foundries and agnostic to EDA tools, that supports all process nodes up through 22-nanometer and beyond, including high-voltage analog processes.

Magma joins other electronic design automation (EDA) vendors including, Anaglobe Technologies, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Pulsic, Silvaco, SpringSoft and Synopsys, along with IBM, Intel Corporation, NXP and STMicroelectronics.