SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Open-Silicon Inc., a leading fabless ASIC company, has adopted Magma's new Hydra(tm) floorplanning and hierarchical design planning product. Open-Silicon adopted Hydra because it enables development of production-quality floorplans that accurately reflect final chip architectural intent and performance. With this streamlined approach to ASIC planning, Open-Silicon can improve the quality of results and turnaround time of its customers' designs.
"Open-Silicon's mission is to provide our customers with predictable, reliable and cost-effective ASICs," said Dr. Satya Gupta, vice president of Engineering and Technology of Open-Silicon. "Hydra's advanced floorplanning capabilities, including automated partitioning, macro placement and macro shaping, can help us reduce turnaround time and improve quality of results. Hydra enables us to better capture architectural intent of the customer design and thus achieve a more predictable design handoff and implementation."
"Open-Silicon has enabled silicon success for leading semiconductor companies in a wide range of industry segments, including wireless and mobile, consumer, digital entertainment, computing, storage and networking, security and telecommunications," said Kam Kittrell, general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "We're pleased that the company and its customers are leveraging Hydra to reduce turnaround time and costs."
Hydra: Streamlining ASIC Handoff and Improving Designer Productivity
Hydra is an automated floorplanning and hierarchical design planning product with complete physical optimization capabilities. Unlike other floorplanning tools, Hydra takes timing, power, congestion and area into consideration and generates production-quality floorplans, streamlining ASIC implementation. By automating top-down chip planning, floorplan generation, partitioning and physical block shaping, and then performing top-level clock tree generation and time budgeting for block-level implementation, Hydra dramatically improves designer productivity.
Hydra can be used in third-party flows or integrated with Magma's Talus(r) IC implementation system. Used in conjunction with Talus Design or Talus Vortex, Hydra offers seamless integration from prototyping to implementation within the same data model. Hydra also works with RioMagic(tm), Magma's package-aware chip planning solution, to enable I/O planning and placement tradeoffs for both peripheral and flip chip packages.
Magma to Feature Hydra at DAC
To register for an in-depth Hydra demo at the Design Automation Conference, June 8-13 in Anaheim, visit Magma's website at www.magma-da.com/DAC.
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 and Talus are registered trademarks, and "Design Ahead of the Curve," Hydra and RioMagic 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 Hydra improves quality of results and turnaround time and about the features and benefits of Magma's software and Open-Silicon's design services 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 and Open-Silicon's design services to produce the desired results, Open-Silicon's decision to continue using Hydra and the companies' abilities 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). The company undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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