SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Wintegra, a leading provider of access processing semiconductors and software for next-generation telecommunication infrastructure solutions, has successfully taped out its latest low-power, high-performance 65-nanometer (nm) chip using Magma's Quartz™ physical verification products. With Quartz DRC's and Quartz LVS's advanced capabilities, Wintegra was able to quickly sign off on the design using TSMC 65-nm runsets.
"As we integrate more features, our designs are getting larger, more complex. To meet our time-to-market windows we need a fast, high-capacity physical verification solution," said Yoram Yeivin, senior vice president of Engineering at Wintegra. "Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS provide the ultra-fast turnaround time and performance we need. Plus, with the excellent support Magma provided during the flow development and deployment and the availability of sign-off runsets from TSMC's website, Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS were very easy to adopt."
"The Quartz products' proven ability to accelerate turnaround time of large designs and to support complex, leading-edge, deep-submicron process rules makes them ideal physical verification solution for today's advanced designs," said Anirudh Devgan, CVP and General Manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "Wintegra's success on this important design is a strong endorsement of the Quartz technology."
Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS: Fastest Fully Scalable Physical Verification
Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS products are architected to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, in the least amount of time. Magma's is the first truly scalable physical verification solution, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an order of magnitude faster than existing solutions while using existing computer resources. The Quartz tools are fully compatible with third-party IC implementation flows and can read file formats used by traditional physical verification tools.
Magma will demonstrate Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS and its entire line of chip design software in Booth 602 at the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) June 14-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. For information about Magma's activities at DAC, visit www.magma-da.com/DAC2010.
About Magma
Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software provides the "Fastest Path to Silicon"™ and enables the world's top chip companies to create high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, digital video, networking and other electronic applications. Magma products are used in IC implementation, analog/mixed-signal design, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and characterization. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Magma is a registered trademark, and "Fastest Path to Silicon" and Quartz 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 Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS provide higher capacity and faster turnaround time and other statements about the features and benefits of the Magma 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 Magma's ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, its products' abilities to produce desired results and Wintegra's decision to continue using Magma 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.