CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Magma(r) Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, today announced that Paxonet Communications, a leading telecommunications intellectual property (IP) and Silicon provider, has successfully completed a 133 MHz, 0.13-micron optical networking integrated circuit (IC) using Blast Fusion(tm) and Blast Noise(tm). Paxonet's "Chopper" device, which performs classification, policing and performance monitoring of packets / cells at rates of 2.5Gbps (OC-48), contains 2 million gates and 1.4Mbits of RAM. The high capacity of Blast Fusion allowed Paxonet to implement the large design using a flat design methodology, and using Linux systems helped achieve accelerated run times. With Magma's powerful and integrated approach to implementation and signal integrity avoidance, Paxonet was able to take the design from netlist to GDSII in just 10 weeks, meeting all their design and schedule requirements.In an effort to maximize the performance and minimize the turnaround time for their high-density, high-speed designs, Paxonet Communications decided to establish a customer owned tooling (COT) flow. Paxonet Communications selected Magma software as the basis for its new COT flow because it provides a comprehensive IC design and implementation solution in a single executable. This integrated system made adoption of the new flow faster, easier and more cost effective than patching together a set point tools."Prior to this design, we utilized ASIC vendor flows for physical implementation," said Dinesh Mahale, director of engineering at Paxonet Communications. "Despite the high gate counts, high-speeds, and our designers unfamiliarity with Magma system's we were able to tape out the chip with ease and efficiency using Magma software."Magma Design Automation Inc.Paxonet Communications Inc.