Released on: July 17, 2008, 3:03 am

Press Release Author: PRHUB Integrated Marketing Communications Pvt. Ltd

Industry: Semiconductors

Press Release Summary: Bangalore, July 16, 2008: Magma® Design Automation Inc.
(Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced a new technology
OEM partnership with Zyvex Instruments to provide faster, more accurate failure
analysis for sub-100-nanometer (nm) ICs. Under the terms of the agreement, Zyvex
will include Magma's Knights CamelotT CAD navigation software as a standard option
to its flagship nanoprobing system, the nProberT. Zyvex selected Camelot as its CAD
navigation tool of choice because of its robust, feature-rich functionality and
dominant market presence.

Press Release Body: The Zyvex nProber is designed and optimized to electrically
probe sub-100-nm features on semiconductor devices with increased throughput and
ease of use. Camelot works seamlessly with Zyvex's tool, creating layout views from
GDSII or Oasis files, overlaying images on layouts and driving the tool to very
accurate X, Y coordinates for device probing and debug. This joint Magma and Zyvex
solution allows semiconductor lab and fab analysis teams to more quickly and easily
locate potential defects and make corrections faster.

"As semiconductor customers' process technologies shrink, IC design and
manufacturing challenges become more complicated, time-consuming and costly," said
Randy Schussler, general manager of Zyvex Instruments. "By providing our customers
with Camelot CAD Navigation Software, we can offer them more accurate,
higher-throughput and cost-efficient failure analysis solutions."

"Zyvex is the industry leader in nanoprobing technology," said Ankush Oberai, vice
president of Magma's Fab Analysis Business Unit. "The combination of NanoWorks® and
Camelot makes failure analysis a greater competitive advantage for our mutual
customers."

Camelot: Industry Standard for Failure Analysis
Magma's Camelot software system is the next-generation CAD navigation standard for
failure analysis, design-debug and yield improvement analysis. Camelot optimizes the
equipment and personnel resources of design and semiconductor failure analysis labs
by providing computer interfaces and navigation capabilities for more than 50
different types of analysis and test equipment. Its application tools, features,
options and networking capability provide a complete, integrated system for fast and
efficient investigation and resolution of inspection, test and analysis jobs.
Camelot also enables closer collaboration between product and design groups with
failure analysis labs, thus dramatically improving time to yield and market.
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