Magma Announces Availability of "Magma-Ready" IP From Major IP Vendors; Large Selection of IP Products Verified for Use in the Magma Design Environment
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 26, 2004—
Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a
provider of chip design solutions, today announced alliances with
major intellectual property (IP) vendors to develop "Magma-Ready"
products. These alliance members and MagmaTies partners have committed
to providing synthesis and reference methodology support for soft IP
products and verification of industry-standard views for hard IP
products. With this level of support, Magma and its MagmaTies partners
ensure that the IP products can be quickly integrated into their
mutual customers' complex integrated circuit (IC) designs. In
addition, these efforts will provide IC designers with a comprehensive
IP portfolio for design deployment. "Magma-Ready" IP is available from
Artisan, Denali, Mentor Graphics, Qualcore Logic, Rambus, SuperH,
TriCN and Virage Logic.
"Many of our customers have already successfully implemented
large, complex ICs using our alliance members' IP products," said
Michael Ma, vice president of business development for Magma. "With
these alliances and additional support, Magma and its partners are
making it easier for our mutual customers to identify the IP products
that are qualified for the Magma design environment and to achieve
design success."
The "Magma Ready" IP Verification Process
Magma has designed comprehensive soft and hard IP verification
processes to enable fast deployment of partner IP products in IC
designs. Through the MagmaTies program, partners are given access to
Magma software, allowing them to meet the necessary requirements. Soft
IP providers can support Blast Create with industry-standard Verilog
and VHDL formats and the most popular synthesis pragmas. They must
also be able to import constraints and verify the quality of results
(QoR), perform formal verification against a known good netlist,
validate the timing using a static timing analyzer and create a script
and documentation for the product. Hard IP providers must import the
industry-standard views into the Magma design environment and check
for logical and physical data consistency, check that the process
rules are consistent, verify timing model compatibility, run routing
feasibility analysis and run performance analysis to ensure QoR.
"Rambus and Magma are working together to address the challenging
requirements of the high-performance, high-bandwidth IC market," said
Jean-Marc Patenaude, director of marketing for the Rambus Logic
Interface Division. "By relying on Rambus' system-proven RaSer serial
interface IP, which is 'Magma-Ready,' chip developers are better able
to meet their critical market windows."
"Mentor Graphics is committed to delivering high-quality IP
products that are proven to work in advanced design flows. As IP
functions grow in complexity and performance, it becomes vitally
important to ensure design goals are met. We are pleased to be part of
the 'Magma-Ready' program," said Michael Kaskowitz, general manager
for the Mentor Graphics Intellectual Property division.
"We have collaborated to optimize and integrate our libraries with
Magma's tools," said Neal Carney, vice president of marketing for
Artisan. "Through our relationship, Magma Ready Artisan IP is
available, bringing value to our mutual customers."
"We are in the process of delivering direct Magma support in our
ASAP Logic(TM) Metal Programmable and Standard Cell Library products.
In addition, we have verified that our entire product portfolio of
silicon-proven IP is 'Magma Ready.' This includes the STAR Memory
System(TM), NOVeA(R) and the ASAP Memory(TM) product lines as well as
our Base I/O Library offering," said Jim Ensell, vice president of
marketing at Virage Logic. "Together, Virage Logic's memory, logic and
I/O products comprise a semiconductor IP platform that customers can
confidently deploy into a Magma design environment today."
"An important and growing sector of TriCN's customer base uses
Magma tools," said Ron Nikel, CTO of TriCN. "For this reason, we feel
it's critical to ensure that our high-performance interface IP is
compatible with the Magma tool suite."
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 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.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters set forth in this press release, including statements that the
MagmaTies partners will provide synthesis and reference methodology
support for soft IP products and verification of industry-standard
views for hard IP products, that Magma and its MagmaTies partners
ensure that the IP products can be quickly integrated into integrated
circuit designs, that as a result of this, IC designers will have a
comprehensive IP portfolio and 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, the MagmaTies partners'
abilities to complete the "Magma-Ready" IP verification process,
Magma's ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and its
products' abilities to produce desired results. Further discussion of
these and other potential risk factors may be found in the parties'
latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on form
10-K, and any subsequent updates thereto on form 10-Q. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The
parties disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking
statements.
Magma is a registered trademark and "The Fastest Path from RTL to
Silicon" is a trademark of Magma Design Automation Inc. 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
