SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, SemiWiki.com announced that Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, has joined the Semiconductor Wikipedia Project (www.semiwiki.com), the industry leading social media site for the semiconductor design and manufacturing ecosystem.
The goal of SemiWiki is to bring semiconductor professionals together to foster better collaboration in meeting the challenges of advanced semiconductor design and manufacturing. Magma, along with other members of the EDA, IP and foundry ecosystem, will contribute meaningful content including company and product wikis, blogs, and discussion forums.
"Magma has joined forces with SemiWiki.com to better enable chip design through its knowledge-sharing capabilities that bring technology and technologists closer together," said Phil Bishop, Magma's corporate vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "We believe SemiWiki will become a key communications platform for us to demonstrate how, through its Silicon One initiative, Magma provides the most advanced technology solutions for emerging silicon and enables semiconductor companies to deliver profit-driving differentiated silicon."
While Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines will continue to play an important role in social media, knowledge sharing sites like SemiWiki are the new search. The role of user generated content has changed the way information is exchanged. SemiWiki.com brings technology and technologists closer together than ever before, providing in-demand content and facilitating peer-to-peer communications using Web 2.0 technologies.
"Our industry needs improved communication channels," said Daniel Nenni, founder of the SemiWiki Project. "SemiWiki.com provides our members with a connected community of tens of thousands that promotes the open exchange of ideas and experiences with a real-time feed back loop. Traffic has doubled every quarter since going live in January and now exceeds 50,000 visits per month."
If you have not already, please join The Semiconductor Wikipedia Project. Put "iPad2" as the referrer and you may win one.
About Magma
Leading semiconductor companies worldwide use Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software to produce chips for a wide variety of vertical markets including tablet computing, mobile devices, electronic games, digital video, networking, military/aerospace and memory. Silicon One, Magma's technology solutions for emerging silicon, address time to market, product differentiation, cost and performance while making silicon more profitable. Magma products include software for digital design, analog implementation, mixed-signal design, physical verification, circuit simulation, characterization and yield management. 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.
About the SemiWiki Project
SemiWiki is a growing online community of professionals involved with the semiconductor design and manufacturing ecosystem. Daniel Nenni is joined by industry veterans Paul McLellan, Daniel Payne, Ed McKernan, and Eric Esteve at SemiWiki.com.