Magma Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS Physical Verification Duo Nominated for EDN Innovation of the Year; Quartz LVS Now in Production Release; Users Rave in Cooley Survey.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced that Quartz(TM) DRC DRC Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Down (Stage) Right Center DRC Director(ate) of Reserve Components DRC Disability Rights Commission (United Kingdom) and Quartz LVS LVS Linux Virtual Server LVS Live Vaccine Strain LVS Las Vegas, New Mexico (Airport Code) LVS Low Voltage Switchgear LVS Logistical Vehicle System LVS Laser Vibration Sensor LVS Logistics Vehicle System have been nominated for the EDN Innovation of the Year. The result of Magma's acquisition of Mojave(TM) Design, this advanced physical verification Physical verification A procedure auditors use to ensure that inventory recorded in the book is correct by actually checking out the physical inventory. combination is the first truly scalable design rule check (DRC) and layout versus schematic The Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) is the class of electronic design automation (EDA) verification software that determines whether a particular integrated circuit layout corresponds to the original schematic or circuit diagram of the design. (LVS) solution, able to physically verify virtually any design at any technology node See technology generation. in 2 hours or less. Magma also announced today that Quartz LVS is now in production release. Quartz LVS was Beta tested with select semiconductor and fabless design companies. All designs tested during the Beta period were extracted in less than two hours, with peak memory usage up to 10 times better than competitive tools. "The market response to Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS has been tremendous," said John Lee, general manager of Magma's Physical Verification Business Unit. "Results of a recent survey by John Cooley, moderator of the E-Mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG ESNUG E-Mail Synopsys Users Group ) and the DeepChip website, showed that 76 percent of those surveyed planned to move to Magma's physical verification solution. We're very pleased with the nomination for the EDN Innovation of the Year as we feel it underscores the growing market adoption of Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS." Survey respondents' comments on the Mojave-spawned Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS included "Mojave rocks!" and "Mojave is looking hot." Complete survey results are available on the DeepChip website at http://www.deepchip.com/items/snug05-15.html. For more on Quartz LVS and trends in physical verification, listen to an interview with Lee in a recent MagmaCast(TM), Magma's series of podcast interviews available at www.magmacast.com for download to portable MP3 players such as iPod or listening online. About the EDN Innovation Awards The EDN Innovation Awards honor outstanding engineering professionals and products. The Innovation of the Year awards recognize unique, state-of-the-art electronics products in several categories. The Innovator of the Year award recognizes an electronics engineer or engineering team for innovation in product design or technical leadership. In addition to honoring these people and products, EDN donates a portion of the proceeds from the nominations and the awards event to an engineering college or university chosen by the Innovator of the Year. It's EDN's way of encouraging and supporting tomorrow's great minds. The EDN Innovation Awards carry special meaning because the winners are chosen by a jury of their peers. After an open nomination period, a panel of EDN editors selects finalists in each category. Then, EDN's audience of engineers and engineering managers votes to select the final winners using an online ballot at www.edn.com/innovation. About Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are the industry's first fully scalable physical verification solutions. Leveraging a unique architecture and advanced modeling capabilities, these revolutionary products allow massively distributed processing of DRC and LVS operations. With this technology and the right number of processors, virtually any design can be physically verified in two hours. Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are both available now for both Linux and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. platforms. About Magma Magma is a leading provider of software for semiconductor design. The world's top chip companies use Magma's EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. products to design and verify complex, high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for communications, computing, consumer electronics and networking applications, while at the same time reducing design time and costs. Magma provides software for IC implementation, analysis, physical verification, characterization and programmable logic design, and the company's integrated RTL-to-GDSII design flow offers "The Fastest Path from RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; to Silicon"(TM). Magma is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. with offices around the world. The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation Magma Design Automation (NASDAQ: LAVA) is a software company in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. The company was founded in 1997 and maintains headquarters in San Jose, California. on the Web at www.magma-da.com. Magma is a registered trademark, and MagmaCast, Mojave, Quartz and "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" are trademarks, of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and 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 can verify virtually any design at any technology node in 2 hours or less and about the market adoption of Magma's physical verification technology, and other statements about the features and benefits of Magma's software, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and 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 Magma'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). Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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