Magma Design Automation has announced the SystemNav tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from ICs to stacked die, PCBs and MCMs (multi-chip modules). It is claimed to be the only commercially available tool that integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online trace and circuit debugging with CAD navigation, with rapid signal traces on chips, stacked dies and MCMs and PCBs. Fab teams can trace signals from chip to board, back to chip and then navigate failure analysis tools to X, Y locations to determine the root cause of the fault. The tool leverages the company's Camelot IC CAD navigation and circuit debug to trace signals between the chip and the board. Its framework is modular enabling features and functions, such as 3D cross- sectioning and schematic cross mapping. The tool is able to read industry-standard PCB and chip layout formats and displays them graphically.
