SAN JOSE, Calif., July 26, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Telairity, a supplier of innovative video compression solutions, has adopted the FineSim™ SPICE circuit simulator. Telairity is using FineSim SPICE to design innovative real-time video compression integrated circuits (ICs) and selected it because FineSim delivers SPICE-accurate results significantly faster than competitive products.
"Telairity provides a range of video compression solutions to meet the varied requirements of our customer base," said Richard Dickson, president of Telairity. "FineSim SPICE provides the fastest and most accurate circuit simulation, which improves the efficiency of our design flow and enables us to get our next generation of MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC) encoders to market more quickly."
"FineSim defines a new paradigm in circuit simulation," said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "Leveraging an improved architecture, better numerical solvers and a single CPU, FineSim SPICE delivers 3 to 10 times better performance than existing commercial SPICE simulators. FineSim SPICE's multi-CPU simulation can deliver 30 times better performance than other single-CPU SPICE products."
FineSim SPICE: Fast and Accurate Simulation
FineSim SPICE is a SPICE-level simulation analysis tool that incorporates transistor-level simulation analysis capabilities for mixed-signal and analog designs. FineSim SPICE is a full SPICE simulation engine with distributed processing that enables customers to simulate large-scale mixed-signal system chips at the transistor level. By providing increased speed and capacity while maintaining full SPICE accuracy, FineSim SPICE enables designers to simulate advanced circuits – such as PLLs, ADCs (analog-to-digital converters), DACs (digital-to-analog converters) and gigahertz SERDES (SERializer/DESerializer) – that they previously would not even attempt using slower traditional SPICE simulators.
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Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements that FineSim delivers SPICE-accurate results significantly faster than competitive products and about the features and benefits of Magma products, 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). The company undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.