Spike Technologies Joins MagmaTies, Announces Support for RTL Synthesis Using Magma's Blast Create
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 13, 2003—
Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a
provider of chip design solutions, today announced that Spike
Technologies has joined its MagmaTies partner program. Through this
program Spike Technologies gains access to Magma's software,
methodologies and training and can serve as a qualified design
resource to Magma customers. Spike will support Magma's Blast
Create(TM) synthesis and physical design solution. With the addition
of Spike Technologies to its partner program, Magma ensures the
availability of expert design services to complement its complete
RTL-to-GDSII integrated circuit (IC) implementation flow.
"We have had a number of potential customers inquire about our
experience with Magma's design software, and in particular Blast
Create," said Nikhil Modi, president of Spike Technologies. "What
we've found is that for turnkey designs of 5 to 10 million gates with
clock frequencies of 250 MHz to 500 MHz, Magma has delivered reliable
timing information early in the flow and ultimately better quality of
results than our traditional flow. With this high degree of
predictability and performance, we have confidence in our ability to
deliver better performance and meet aggressive schedules."
"We welcome Spike Technologies to the MagmaTies program," said
Yatin Trivedi, director of product marketing at Magma. "Increased
availability of design service providers that are trained on Blast
Create is very good news for the design community in general and the
Magma user community in particular. Spike Technologies is known for
its highly skilled resources and for managing large turnkey projects.
We are confident their customers will benefit from faster time to
market and better quality designs."
About Blast Create
Blast Create is an RTL-to-placed-gates system that enables logic
designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve the quality
of their RTL code, design constraints, testability requirements and
floorplan. Blast Create integrates fast, full-featured, high-capacity
logic and physical synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static
timing analysis, design for test (DFT) analysis and synthesis, and
power analysis. Unlike conventional point-tool front-end flows, Blast
Create does not rely on wireload models or inaccurate physical design
data. With Blast Create's high capacity and integrated technology,
designers can quickly build and analyze a flat, multimillion-gate
design. This allows them to identify and fix problems early in the
flow, ensuring a clean handoff between the RTL designer and the layout
engineer, providing a predictable path to timing closure and
accelerating the RTL-to-GDSII design flow. Both Verilog and VHDL
hardware definition languages (HDLs) are supported. Blast Create
accepts design constraints in SDC format and libraries in .lib format,
avoiding the need and cost of adapting Blast Create to existing logic
design environments.
About Magma Design Automation
Magma software is used to design fast, multimillion-gate
integrated circuits, providing "The Fastest Path from RTL to
Silicon"(TM), enabling chip designers to reduce the time required to
produce complex ICs. Magma's products for prototyping, synthesis, and
place & route provide a single executable for RTL-to-GDSII chip
design. The company's Blast RTL(TM), Blast Fusion(R), Blast Fusion
APX(TM), Blast Plan(TM) and Blast Noise(R) products utilize Magma's
patented FixedTiming(R) methodology and single data model architecture
to reduce the timing-closure iterations often required between the
logic and physical processes in conventional IC design flows. Through
acquisition of Aplus Design Technologies and the PALACE(TM) and
ArchEvaluator(TM) products, Magma addresses all silicon implementation
platforms, including advanced physical synthesis and architecture
development tools for programmable logic devices (PLDs).
Magma maintains headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., as well as
facilities in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, Calif.;
Boston, Mass.; Durham, N.C.; Austin and Dallas, Texas; Newcastle,
Wash.; and in Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan,
Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. The company's
stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma
Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
About Spike Technologies, Inc.
Spike Technologies, Inc. is an established global Chip Design
Services company headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. Spike provides
services to top semiconductor corporations, system houses, IDMs and
fabless start-up companies by offering complete chip design solutions
including RTL design, verification, synthesis, DFT, place & route,
physical verification and tape-out.
Spike's engineering team has extensive experience in dealing with
critical issues associated with deep sub-micron technologies and is
working on complex multimillion gate ASICs at 90-nanometer technology.
Spike's customers are offered a variety of engagement models from a
time and material basis to a full turnkey development to best fit the
business and project needs. For more information visit Spike Web site
at www.spiketech.com.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters set forth in this press release, including statements that,
with Spike as a MagmaTies member, expert design services will be
available, that Spike's use of Blast Create will enable them to
deliver better performance and turnaround time and statements about
the features and benefits of Magma's system, 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, Magma's and Spike's abilities to keep pace with rapidly
changing technology and to produce desired results. Further discussion
of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's Form
10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003 and filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on June 20, 2003, and from time to
time in Magma's SEC reports. These forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date hereof. Magma disclaims any obligation to update
these forward-looking statements.
Magma, Blast Fusion, Blast Noise and FixedTiming are registered
trademarks, and ArchEvaluator, Blast RTL, Blast Fusion APX, Blast
Plan, Blast Rail, "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon," and PALACE
are trademarks of Magma Design Automation. Broadcom(R) is a trademark
of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and
certain other countries. All other product and company names are
trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Magma Design Automation Inc.
Monica Marmie, 408-565-7689
monical@magma-da.com
