SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, and Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM), a leader in digital media processing systems on a chip (SoCs) for consumer electronics, today announced that Sigma Designs is adopting a suite of Magma products -- including design implementation, physical verification and circuit simulation -- for Sigma Designs' complex, next-generation designs. This multiyear agreement includes licensing for Magma's Talus(r) Design and Talus Vortex automated IC implementation, Quartz DRC and Quartz(tm) LVS physical verification and FineSim(tm) SPICE circuit simulation software.
"Sigma Designs' SoCs enable developers of Blu-ray and HD-DVD players to provide stunning audio and video quality as well as intelligent interactive features," said Ken Lowe, vice president of Strategic Marketing of Sigma Designs. "We selected Magma's software because it provides the automation, integration, accuracy and performance we need to meet the cost and time-to-market requirements of our advanced SoCs."
"Getting products to market on time and within budget are critical to success in the highly competitive consumer products field," said Kam Kittrell, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Design flows based on multiple products from multiple vendors can slow turnaround time and increase production costs. Magma's comprehensive and integrated flow will allow Sigma Designs to quickly and cost-effectively implement, simulate and verify its next-generation SoCs."
Talus and Quartz: An Automated, Integrated IC Implementation and Verification Environment
Talus Design is a full-chip synthesis environment that enables rapid development of RTL and chip-level constraints throughout the design process without sacrificing the quality of design or delivery schedule. Talus Vortex provides a complete physical design environment that dramatically improves the productivity of physical designers by automating floorplan generation and complete design closure. These capabilities, combined with optional automated distributed processing on multiple computers, enable Talus Design and Talus Vortex to implement design of any size, from RTL to GDSII, in a predictable fashion.
Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are the industry's first fully scalable physical verification solutions. Leveraging a unique architecture and advanced modeling capabilities, these revolutionary products allow affordable massively distributed processing of DRC and LVS comparison and integrate inherent DFM knowledge into physical verification. With this technology virtually any design can be physically verified in 2 hours.
FineSim SPICE: Accurate and Fast
FineSim SPICE, Magma's SPICE-level simulator that incorporates transistor-level simulation analysis capabilities for mixed digital and analog design, runs on both multiple-CPU and multiple-machine compute environments, can simulate much larger designs than traditional SPICE simulation could handle yet delivers silicon-accurate results.
About Sigma Designs
Sigma Designs is a leading fabless provider of highly integrated system-on-chip, or SoC, solutions that are used to deliver multimedia entertainment throughout the home. Sigma's SoC solutions combine its semiconductors and software and are a critical component of multiple high-growth, consumer applications that process digital video and audio content, including Internet protocol TV, or IPTV, high definition DVD players, high definition TVs, or HDTVs, and portable media players. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., Sigma Designs also has sales representatives in the United States, Belgium, China, Japan and Taiwan and sells its products through a third-party distributor in Korea. For more information, please visit Sigma Designs' web site at www.sigmadesigns.com.
About Magma
Magma's software for designing integrated circuits (ICs) is used to create complex, high-performance chips required in cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, DVD/digital video, networking, automotive electronics and other electronic applications. Magma's EDA software for IC implementation, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and characterization is recognized as embodying the best in semiconductor technology, enabling the world's top chip companies to "Design Ahead of the Curve"(tm) while reducing design time and costs. Magma is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices around the world. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Talus and Magma are registered trademarks and Quartz, FineSim and "Design Ahead of the Curve" are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements that Sigma will implement its complex SoCs with the Magma software, that Magma software can implement any size design in a predictable fashion, allow any design to be physically verified in 2 hours and provide SPICE-accurate simulation results are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to Magma's and Sigma Designs' abilities to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, the companies' products' abilities to produce desired results and Sigma Designs' decision to continue using Magma's software. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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