SHANGHAI, China and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma® 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 – held in Shanghai March 23.
Conference attendees and the MUSIC Technical Program Committee selected the winners from a field of 10 papers presented by Magma users from top-tier technology companies, including Global UniChip, Micron Technology, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments and 30JAVEE Microelectronics. The top paper award went to Albred Mo of NVIDIA for "A Fast Macro Placement Methodology Based on the Logic Group." The second place award went to Tommy Liu of Texas instruments for his paper titled "Dealing with the Timing Closure Challenges on a 65-Nanometer (nm) Design." Third place went to Zhenhao Chen of Micron Technology for "A Simulation Strategy for NAND Flash Memory using FineSim™."
"MUSIC China provides an interactive platform for Chinese designers to exchange ideas on digital and analog/mixed-signal IC design technology," said Professor Ren Junyan, chairman of MUSIC China 2010 and vice director of the State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System at Fudan University. "The designs featured in this year's MUSIC conference papers ranged from 65 nm to 40 nm. Traditional digital IC design implementation techniques such as floorplanning, clock tree synthesis and congestion solving were covered, as were analog and mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. These papers, along with Magma CEO Rajeev Madhavan's keynote, provided valuable information about the latest products, technology and related design applications for digital and analog/mixed-signal SoCs."
Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and CEO, gave a keynote address describing "The Electronic Ocean" and predicted a tidal wave of demand for mixed-signal chips. Madhavan explained how Magma's unique ability to integrate analog and digital design has transformed the company into the leading provider of mixed-signal SoC solutions. Tekton™, Magma's next-generation static timing analyzer, and QCP™, a new fast, full-chip extractor, were announced at MUSIC and highlighted in Madhavan's keynote. Tekton's ability to perform static timing analysis in just minutes for the industry's biggest chips – on a single machine – generated great interest from attendees.
Magma users who missed the conference can access the MUSIC China papers and presentations via MOLTEN®, Magma's online technical support portal. The next MUSIC conference is scheduled for March 30 in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.
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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 and www.magma-da.com.cn.
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