Magma Congratulates Winners of MUSIC India 'Best Paper' Awards -- Design for Manufacturability, Automation and Physical Verification Among Popular Topics

MUSIC Silicon Valley Set for Feb. 27-28 -- Robotics Authority to Deliver Keynote Address


BANGALORE, India, Jan. 29, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced the "Best Paper" winners for MUSIC (Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits) India, held in Bangalore Jan. 22-23.

The top paper award went to B.G. Madhusudan Rao of Texas Instruments for his paper entitled "Planning and Closure for Large Capacity Designs: Talus(r) ACC." The second place award went to Raashid Shaikh of Texas Instruments for his paper entitled "A 65-nm 850K PI Hard Macro Implementations' Trials and Travails: Blast Fusion(r) 5.0 Missing Pieces and Talus Difference." Third place went to Vivek Tatke of Open Silicon for "Practical Techniques to Improve Productivity through the Lifecycle of Rectilinear Dominated Hierarchical Flip Chip Designs."

The winning papers were selected by the more than 250 attendees and the MUSIC Technical Coordination Program Committee (TCPC) from a field of 26 user papers submitted from top-tier companies, including Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, Open Silicon, LSI, Mediatek Singapore, ARM and Infineon.

"I was very impressed with the quality of the papers and presentations by Magma users," said Qualcomm's Venugopal Puvvada, a TCPC member and director of engineering, Qualcomm Bangalore. "The presenters covered topics spanning the entire range of the design flow using Magma tools. I commend the presenters and the technical program committee for continuing MUSIC India's legacy as a valuable learning resource for Magma users."

"As evidenced by the attendance this year, MUSIC India once again was a resounding success," said Anand Anandkumar, managing director of Magma Design Automation Pvt. Ltd. "The number of users who attended reflects Magma's position as a leading EDA company in India."

"We are very happy to provide the technical support for Magma's India users through the quality and quantity of papers submitted at MUSIC India," said Atreya Nagaraja, regional director of Magma India. "Indian designers who are creating advanced designs using Magma's tools gained invaluable insight during the conference. The papers presented covered all areas, from RTL to GDSII, including papers describing designs involving critical issues such as design for manufacturability, automation, low power, timing closure, packaging, physical verification and sign-off."

MUSIC India featured a keynote by Raj Khare, chairman of Surewaves and past chair and founder of the India Semiconductor Association, entitled "Dancing with MUSIC, Romancing with Silicon." Magma users who missed the conference can access the MUSIC India papers and presentations via MOLTEN, Magma's online technical support. For more information, visit www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.

Robot Navigation Pioneer to Keynote MUSIC Silicon Valley

Chris Urmson, one of the leading figures in robot navigation, will deliver the Feb. 28 keynote address at MUSIC Silicon Valley, scheduled for Feb. 27-28 in Santa Clara, Calif. Urmson, director of technology for Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing, will discuss "Boss," the autonomous vehicle his team developed. Boss was demonstrated at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and won the $2 million 2007 DARPA Challenge. For more information on the program and to register for the conference visit Magma online at www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.

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.

Magma, Talus and Blast Fusion are registered trademarks and "Design Ahead of the Curve" is a trademark 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 about the features and benefits of Magma's software 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 the ability of Magma's products to produce the desired results and the company's ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. 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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