Components are more and more complex driving the cost of design higher, in proportion such that the number of ASICs designed may actually decrease: start-ups in particular cannot afford the tools they need.

Second-generation system-on-chips are single-chip multifunctional devices built with multiple processor cores, to enhance performance, each driving a subsystem that has its own operating system firmware and application programming interface software. The industry is global : multi site projects, multi location teams spread all over the word . This shift in design approach has fundamental consequences for users of future systems.

More than half of ASIC design starts in 2005 are SoCs, it will grow to 80% by 2010.

Increased chip scaling and design complexity create an upsurge in advanced design tools and startups, fueling EDA revenue. Integrated circuit computer-aided design tools have hit the market in 2005 and 2006 for 65- and 45-nm products going into production in 2007 and 2008.

Also more and more users are designing for FPGAs : 75% of designs are for communications and industrial products.

Complexity increases but time to market decreases . As a consequence , the EDA Market is moving towards ESL. A growing need for IP Reuse, Design Reuse, and interoperability change the design requirements. The revised ESL methodologies presented in 2005-2006 are holding up as working methodologies. The user community has started to evaluate commercial ESL tools instead of developing them in-house. Moreover, true system design automation tools have entered the market : Platform products are the wave of the future.

Magillem Design Services operates and competes in this ESL market, which includes products to describe, configure and verify systems at TLM and RTL levels, IP database builders, software debug tools,etc..

There is a paradigm shift : the market needs to adapt METHODS to the new “blockbuster strategy” the large R&D divisions have to live with. New tools are not the issue. At stake is the future of companies : they cannot fail one generation / one new product or they are out of business.

XML and Internet will be the foundation for innovative methodologies.

Our vision is that new methodology tools should adapt to the trends in SoC design and help streamline the design flows without disrupting existing process.

Our offering :

Magillem designs and markets an Integrated Developemnt Environment for the design of complex systems based on the notion of IP blocks and allowing for :  

• Reuse of existing blocks , sub components, sub systems and systems,
• Evaluate their integration in a new design
• Communicate thanks to a common description format between R&D teams

• Describes existing IP blocks and stores them in a portfolio of IP and documents them
• Exchanges IP blocks with partners, vendors, colleagues, distant R&D centers
• Assembles blocks on a new platform and follows the design flow along the design process 

Magillem integrated design environment offers a non-disruptive framework, a backbone to the design flow, providing fluidity, flexibility, openness, a cockpit for all existing EDA point tools, client-custom features, seamless execution of the entire flow (TLM+RTL), and better control to designers.

The primary value proposition for Magillem’s tools is two-fold:

Operational :
Automated verification, flow scripting and documentation, chip composition, top level interconnect, simplification of the flow for designers, centralized, easy to maintain library of metadata for IPs guaranteeing consistency, integrity and re-usability.

Strategic :
Magillem’s solutions help customers along the supply chain improve communications with other partners, lower risks of failure, reduce time wasting, facilitates cooperation between project managers and remote multiple design teams, help satisfy standardization demands, insure independence from EDA vendors and allow customers to leverage their know how and expertise more effectively.