DongbuAnam Semiconductor Standardizes on Magma's SiliconSmart Characterization and Modeling Technology.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Foundry Relies on SiliconSmart Technology to Deliver High-Speed and Low-Power Silicon Predictability in Nanometer Design

Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, today announced that DongbuAnam Semiconductor (001830.SE) has standardized on SiliconSmart(R) CR and SiliconSmart IO characterization and modeling technology. The software technology will be used for timing and low-power characterization of their next-generation nanometer libraries. The SiliconSmart technology enables developers targeting designs to be manufactured in DongbuAnam's foundries to reach DongbuAnam's timing and low-power objectives faster and with greater accuracy through the use of accurate and consistent libraries throughout the entire design process.

DongbuAnam Semiconductor, the merger of Dongbu Electronics and Anam Semiconductor, has emerged as a leading pure-play wafer foundry. Enabling system-on-chip (SoC) implementations that deploy highly advanced logic, analog and mixed-signal technologies, the company's recently introduced 130 nanometer CMOS process provides world-class wafer manufacturing capabilities. Augmenting its fabrication capabilities, DongbuAnam offers a broad range of services that include advanced design support and a wide variety of intellectual property.

DongbuAnam Semiconductor's library group recognized that providing IP that correlates precisely to the current foundry process was critical to their internal and its customers design teams' ability to meet specific power and performance objectives. To ensure that level of correlation requires the timely characterization of the libraries using up-to-date process models and a characterization and modeling solution that accurately accounts for electrical effects such as increased cell delays due to greater cross-coupling and higher power consumption due to larger leakage currents. DongbuAnam recognized that, further complicating the issues surrounding elevated leakage currents, leakage power is extremely state-dependent in standard-cell designs and that power consumption can vary by orders of magnitude depending on state.

DongbuAnam required a characterization and modeling solution that could accurately represent the timing and power values in silicon. Supporting customers that utilize tool flows from multiple vendors also required the ability to produce high-quality models for a wide variety of flows.

"We are committed to providing exceptional value to our customers through the delivery of responsive design service, high-quality IP and flexible foundry services," said Dr. H.J. Park, senior vice president of DongbuAnam. "The successful delivery of products and services using nanometer processes starts with libraries that exactly reflect silicon produced in the foundry. Regardless of the design flow used, SiliconSmart characterization technology is a key component in the design and fabrication of high-speed and low-power silicon."

As part of its evaluation of the SiliconSmart technology, DongbuAnam developed test structures designed to verify the accurate representation of timing and power measurements. The results showed the SiliconSmart-generated models correlated to within 2 percent of SPICE and 5 percent of silicon for timing across all test circuits; and correlated to silicon for power across all test circuits. Due to the precise correlation of the models and support for advanced design flows from Cadence(R) Design Systems, Magma and Synopsys(R), DongbuAnam standardized on the SiliconSmart characterization and modeling technology from the Silicon Correlation Division of Magma.

"DongbuAnam has become a significant force in the fiercely competitive commercial foundry market," said Premal Buch, PhD., general manager of the Analysis and Signoff business unit of Magma. "The adoption of SiliconSmart CR and IO underscores DongbuAnam's detailed understanding of the important role characterization plays in the interaction between accurate timing and power libraries and delivery of production silicon. We are pleased to add DongbuAnam to our growing list of foundry customers."

About SiliconSmart CR and SiliconSmart IO Technology

SiliconSmart CR and SiliconSmart IO characterization and modeling technology delivers the accurate standard cell and complex IO timing and power models required to enable the latest integrated design flows. Benefiting from extensive collaborative relationships with the major EDA platform providers, SiliconSmart technology produces accurate, proven models that design teams can deploy with confidence.

About DongbuAnam Semiconductor

DongbuAnam Semiconductor, one of the world's largest pure-play wafer foundries, specializes in world-class CMOS wafer processing that enables system-on-a-chip implementations that integrate the most advanced logic, analog, and mixed-signal technologies. Through close working relationships with strategic partners, DongbuAnam offers a broad range of services that augment its world-class wafer manufacturing capabilities. These include advanced design support, access to wide variety of intellectual property, and prototyping, as well as backend assembly, packaging and testing. DongbuAnam is a key global supplier within Korea's well-established semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure. For more information, visit www.dsemi.com.

About Magma

Magma provides leading software for designing highly complex integrated circuits while maximizing Quality of Results with respect to area, timing and power, and at the same time reducing overall design cycles and costs. Magma provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII design flow that includes design planning, prototyping, synthesis, place & route, and signal and power integrity chip design capabilities in a single executable, offering "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon"(TM). Magma's software also includes products for advanced physical synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable logic devices (PLDs); capacitance extraction; and characterization and modeling. The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.

Magma is a registered trademark and SiliconSmart and "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" 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 SiliconSmart technology enables developers targeting designs to be manufactured in DongbuAnam's foundries to reach their design goals faster and with greater accuracy, that SiliconSmart technology will be used in conjunction with DongbuAnam's next-generation libraries, and about the features, functionality 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: DongbuAnam's decision to cease using SiliconSmart technology, the companies' products' abilities to produce the desired results 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). These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.