This is not surprising, but tiresome. Magma supports the Si2 OpenAccess format for inter-operability. Now this would be a non-issue except for one thing - Magma apparently has cool internal data structures to support its entire unified flow. And what’s more, these data structures are patented.

However, I suppose this makes sense from a business perspective. Magma is’nt used across the entire design cycle. The front-end is dominated by the Big Three. And I suppose when big design firms ask you to read data in formats dumped by other tools, you’re gonna have to do it.

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