Magma said Tekton runs multi-scenario analysis on low-cost hardware without requiring a large number of expensive servers and software licenses.

The San Jose-based company noted that Tekton meets the runtime, capacity and accuracy requirements for sign-off through an architecture designed to accommodate more than 100 million instances and greater than 15 PVT corners.

Tekton's multi-threaded architecture provides near-linear scaling on up to 24 CPUs. For a single timing scenario, with OCV and crosstalk enabled, Tekton performs timing analysis on designs greater than 10 million cells in minutes, the company claimed.

Magma said its Tekton timing analysis platform is coupled with QCP, a high-capacity, full-chip extractor, so that designers can simultaneously iterate through the timing closure process of analyzing, fixing and extracting nets. Eventually, designers are able to reduce the time spent in trial-and-error ECO loops.

Magma said it anticipates Tekton and QCP to be in general availability in June 2010.

In the meantime, Magma released its FineSim Fast Monte Carlo statistical simulation method that is claimed to deliver superior accuracy and up to 100 times speed improvement over traditional Monte Carlo analysis. It uses proprietary dynamic error-controlled algorithms along with statistical techniques to improve speed and accuracy compared to traditional Monte Carlo statistical analysis.