Released on: February 28, 2008, 3:18 am

Press Release Author: Magma Design Automation

Industry: Semiconductors

Press Release Summary: Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of
chip design software, announced TitanT, the first full-chip mixed-signal design,
analysis and verification platform. Unlike other design solutions, Titan tightly
integrates mixed-signal implementation with digital implementation, circuit
simulation, transistor-level extraction and verification - providing a quantum leap
in efficiency and productivity for analog designers. This marks another significant
milestone in Magma's history of delivering game-changing advances in IC design .



Press Release Body: BANGALORE, India, Feb. 28, 2008 : - Magma® Design Automation
Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced TitanT, the
first full-chip mixed-signal design, analysis and verification platform. Unlike
other design solutions, Titan tightly integrates mixed-signal implementation with
digital implementation, circuit simulation, transistor-level extraction and
verification - providing a quantum leap in efficiency and productivity for analog
designers.



Because Titan is based on Magma's unified data model, it works seamlessly with
Magma's Talus® digital IC implementation, FineSimT circuit simulation, QuickCap® TLx
transistor-level extraction (also announced today) and QuartzT DRC and Quartz LVS
physical verification products. As a result, analog and digital design teams are no
longer isolated and can have clear visibility into their counterparts' design space.




"Today's announcement marks another significant milestone in Magma's history of
delivering game-changing advances in IC design," said Rajeev Madhavan, Magma
chairman and chief executive officer. "With Talus for digital design and Titan for
mixed signal, we have achieved a level of integration that the electronic design
automation industry has never before provided chip designers."



"Analog/mixed-signal design tools have not kept up with Moore's Law the same way
digital design tools have," said Suk Lee, general manager of Magma's Custom Design
Business Unit. "With its unequaled automation of analog IP optimization and process
migration, unified simulation, physical verification, physical design and chip
finishing environment - and live integration with the digital design flow - Titan is
a quantum leap in the evolution of mixed-signal design."

Titan: An Evolution in Analog/Mixed-Signal Design

Today, analog design flows and teams are isolated from the digital world. Analog
integrated circuits are still largely full-custom and are painstakingly crafted by
hand. In addition to being time-consuming and prone to error, this transistor-level
design style does not allow an existing design to be easily transferred to a new
foundry or process/technology node. Instead, the migration of such a design
effectively requires the circuit to be re-implemented from the ground up. With
Titan, analog designers will still apply their expertise in defining the first
circuit topology, but porting to new nodes will be significantly easier.



Lightning-Fast, Automated Chip Finishing and Live Integration with Digital
Implementation

In traditional flows, chip finishing - the point at which the digital and analog
blocks of a design are placed and routed together - is a time-consuming and manual
task. Titan Chip Finishing, the first product to be released on this platform,
provides complete and automated chip finishing capabilities. This fast,
high-capacity system integrates mixed-signal layout with the Talus place-and-route
capabilities. It can manipulate the largest designs with ease, automates analog and
special net routing through an efficient constraints-based approach and makes all
mixed-signal layout changes immediately available for physical and timing
verification sign-off analysis through a live interface with Talus, Quartz DRC and
Quartz LVS. Titan Chip Finishing can implement late engineering change orders (ECOs)
that affect both analog and standard-cell components without significantly delaying
the schedule.



Highly Efficient Full-Chip Circuit Simulation

Titan offers an integrated simulation environment using the industry's leading
circuit simulator, FineSim, along with the gold standard tool for parasitic
extraction, QuickCap TLx. When coupled with ground-breaking schematic driven layout,
analog circuit optimization, and analog placement-and-routing, Titan provides a
level of efficiency in the analog design domain that is similar to that of the
digital domain. For true mixed-signal design, the FineSim interface also allows for
full-chip circuit simulation, offering SPICE-level accuracy for the analog portions
of the design and fast SPICE-level accuracy for the digital portions of the design.
This ensures that the analog/digital interfaces are well simulated and verified
before committing the chip to silicon.



Titan Chip Finishing is available now. For more on how Magma integrates analog and
digital design to accelerate development of mixed-signal designs, download "The
Titan Unified, Automated, Full-Chip Mixed-Signal Design Solution" white paper at
www.magma-da.com/WPTitan.html.



About Magma

Magma\'s software for designing integrated circuits (ICs) is used to create complex,
high-performance chips required in cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3
players, DVD/digital video, networking, automotive electronics and other electronic
applications. Magma\'s EDA software for IC implementation, analysis, physical
verification, circuit simulation and characterization is recognized as embodying the
best in semiconductor technology, enabling the world\'s top chip companies to \"Design
Ahead of the Curve\"T while reducing design time and costs. Magma is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., with offices around the world. Magma\'s stock trades on Nasdaq
under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at
www.magma-da.com.



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Magma, QuickCap and Talus are registered trademarks, and "Design Ahead of the
Curve," FineSim, Quartz and Titan 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 Titan
improves the efficiency and productivity of analog designers, seamlessly works with
Talus, FineSim, QuickCap TLx, Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS products, provides analog
designers with the same advantages that digital designers have and about the
features and benefits of Magma's software 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 ability of Magma's products to produce the desired results and the company'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). The company undertakes no
additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.



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