Agmas Tekton Achieves Adoption Milestone With More Than 25 Companies Now Using The Advanced Stati

Magmas Tekton Achieves Adoption Milestone with More than 25 Companies Now Using the

Advanced Static Timing Analysis Solution to Accelerate Timing Sign-off

Super fast runtime, advanced multi-mode, multi-corner analysis capabilities and silicon-proven results drive growth

Bangalore, November 30, 2011: Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that since its release 18 months ago, Tekton has grown its customer base to more than 25 companies, achieving the fastest adoption rate of any tool in the companys history. Tekton, the most advanced sign-off-quality static timing analysis (STA) tool on the market, was introduced to the industry in the spring of 2010. This unprecedented growth was accomplished despite the chip industrys shrinking electronic design automation (EDA) budgets and designers historical unwillingness to change sign-off tools.

Tekton has garnered strong customer interest for multiple reasons, said Jacob Avidan, general manager of Magmas Digital Sign-Off Business Unit. First and foremost, the need for faster runtimes and true multi-mode, multi-corner (MMMC) sign-off is not being met by legacy tools today. Second, Tektons superior architecture, which was designed specifically for multi-core processing and concurrent MMMC analysis, has been proven on production designs. And third, customer confidence is high in Magmas ability to sustain its performance and technology leadership in timing sign-off solutions.

Customers are using Tekton to accelerate post place-and-route engineering change order (ECO) loops as well as for final sign-off runs. With the slow runtimes of legacy tools and the increasing number of scenarios that need to be analyzed, todays timing closure phase can take two to three months to complete. Tektons concurrent MMMC analysis and multi-threaded architecture can save tens if not hundreds of hours over the span of numerous ECO loops. Tekton also provides a huge savings in hardware costs for MMMC analysis. Recent customer results show savings between 75 and 95 percent of machine-count usage for running large numbers of scenarios. With fast and sign-off-accurate results in the ECO flow, customers can have confidence in using Tekton for final timing sign-off analysis and eliminate the need for additional STA point tools.

Tektons customers range from the largest networking and mobile broadband design houses to some of the worlds largest semiconductor manufacturers. More than half of the top 20 IDMs and fabless semiconductor companies are committed to using Tekton. The diversity of customers using Tekton has driven our R&D and support resources to produce a robust tool that works across a broad range of design styles and technology nodes including advanced nodes such as 28 and 20 nanometer. This diversity has also driven continued development to maintain Tektons competitive edge over other STA tools, Avidan added. In the last 9 months alone, Tektons runtime has been improved by over 2X while maintaining the same sign-off accuracy.

Tekton was developed as part of a fully integrated system that includes extraction sign-off and place-and-route capabilities that use the same data base and are MMMC aware. This allows the platform engines to work simultaneously and to achieve higher quality of results and throughput compared to competitive point-tool solutions.

About Magma

Leading semiconductor companies worldwide use Magmas 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, Magmas 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. Magmas 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.

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