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MMI MAX Family of Layout Editors

MMI Full-Featured IC Layout Design Tools

Built on MAX-3D, Micro Magic's native 3D editor

MAX Layout Editors -- speed, power, ease-of-use -- able to load, view, and edit designs of more than one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) devices in real time.

Video examples below illustrate a few of the many features built into MAX Layout Editors

MAX is the fastest Layout System on the planet. Benchmarks have proven MAX to be 50X faster in displaying physical layout data. All MAX Layout tools offer 3-D VIEWING of layout.

MAX-3D: True 3-D TSV Layout

True 3-Dimensional Layout



MAX-3D TSV Layout is the only true 3D layout editor, handling multiple technologies with true Through-Silicon Via (TSV) capability.

MAX-3d Select net Three distinct wafers: Turning visibility on/off, and tracing net sbetween different wafers

MAX-3D enables 'Through-Silicon Via Wafer Stack' Technology - a technology allowing faster interconnects between discrete wafers. This is accomplished by connecting wafers of varying technologies together with vias through the wafers yielding a single 3-D stacked chip.

MAX3D topview 3chips A still from the video above. This is showing the top-most view, with all chips and all layers visibility turned "on"

MAX-3D has the capacity and speed to handle the largest and nost comlex designs. Features such as limiting editing to a single wafer, or connectivity tracing through multiple wafers, make MAX-3D the only editor for your 3D designs.

Here, a small loop to illustrate the ease of generating complex busses, and 3D display.

MAX-LS: Schematic-Driven Layout

MAX-LS - The Tool for Real Layout Designers



MAX-LS features true Schematic-Driven Layout Design, offering the ability to interactively generate layout that is DRC- and LVS-correct with devices automatically sized.

The video below demonstrates - in real time - the ease of doing layout and cross-probing; literally as simple as the click of a menu button.

Demonstration of schematic-driven layout: (45 sec)
The ease of wiring-up a circuit; selecting a net; seeing that net on the schematic; then changing the schematic and observing the change on the layout.


Schematic-Driven Layout

MAX-LS Schematic-driven Layout System seamlessly integrates the schematic capture of SUE with the MAX layout editor to provide true, schematic-driven physical layout. It includes interactive cell generation based on LVS and DRC correct layout, and can handle the largest SoC IC design databases. Its GDSII output can go directly to mask composition products for IC fabrication.

Crossprobing video Here, a small (30sec.) loop to illustrate the ease of selecting a net, then connecting between two nets.
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MAX Layout

Full-Featured layout



Much more than a layout tool, MAX Full-featured Layout is an intelligent layout environment. MAX is equally at home with all aspects of physical design, from creating cells for a library to interacting with place-and-route activities at the block-level, to assembling an entire chip.

MAX Layout Editor comes with continuous DRC, connectivity tracing, schematic cross-probing, wiring tool, extraction, schematic-driven layout, and more. The example below illustrates interactive DRC.

MAX Layout Interactive DRC (15 sec loop) A feature with all of MMI's layout editors is interactive DRC, shown here as white dots

All of MMI's layout editors offer automatic bus wiring.

Auto Bus wiring anim Animation illustrating the ease of bus wiring in MAX layout editors. (15sec loop)

MAX has a number of features that make it the best choice for doing IC layout for high-performance, fast time-to-market designs.

  • Real-time Interactive DRC and Connectivity Tracing
  • Integrated Calibre® Interface

MAX-View Layout Viewer

Real-Time Speed and Power



MAX-View Layout Viewer can handle the largest IC design databases - in the trillions of devices.

Whether your chip is in GDSII or native MAX format, MAX-View can dislay the entire design, with all layers on, in real time.

The image below shows one trillion devices in a theoretical chip.

MAX-View Layout Viewer Very large chip loaded into MAX-View

Load and view your largest designs

MAX-View Layout Viewer lets you load and view any size layout, in REAL TIME.

Trillion running Portion of an ultra-large chip displayed in 3-dimensional view: One Trillion Transistors! Real Time Redisplay.

MAX-View imports GDSII and .max files, as well as other industry standard technology files. Customize layer display settings; push, pop, and view cell internals; explore cell hierarchy and connectivity tracing -- all with instantaneous re-display.

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The MAX Layout Editor Family

MAX Layout Editors -- speed, power, ease-of-use -- able to load, view, and edit designs of more than one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) devices in real time.

Features of MAX Layout Editors

MAX Features comparison chart Comparison chart: MAX Layout Editor features
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MAX is the fastest Layout System on the planet. Benchmarks have proven MAX to be 50X faster in displaying physical layout data. All MAX Layout tools offer 3-D VIEWING of layout.

Micro Magic's MAX Layout Editors

  • MAX-3D System: Chip/Package/PC Board Editing All In One
  • MAX-3D: True 3D TSV Wafer Stack technology
  • MAX-LS: Schematic-Driven Layout
  • MAX: Full-Featured Layout
  • MAX-View: Layout Viewer with 3D Layout display

Comments From Customers

“Tezzaron has taped out over 100 3D chips using MMI’s MAX-3D tool suite. There’s nothing to compare, and the new TSV placer & MAX-3D Path Finder are incredible.”

Robert Patti, VP/CTO, Tezzaron Semiconductor

“This is one of the few tools that can deal with multiple levels of hierarchy and multiple tech files all at the same time, and it is awesome for visualization of complex things like, say, PDN mesh across multiple die and interposers. Fantastic! I like it!”

Riko Radojcic, Director of Design for Silicon Initiatives, Qualcomm