SAN JOSE, Calif., March 16, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced the "Best Paper" winners for MUSIC – Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits – in Silicon Valley, held here March 10.
The top paper award went to Anand Raman of Helic Inc. for his paper titled "A High-Capacity Power Integrity Flow Supporting Inductive Rail Effects with Transistor-Level Accuracy." The second place award went to Siobhan Barry of QThink for her paper titled "Comparing Crosstalk Delay Calculations in Talus® and PrimeTime-SI." Third place went to Lyle Smith of Actel Corporation for "Using the Titan™ Shape-Based-Router for Actel's Next-Generation Flash-based FPGA Product Family."
Conference attendees and the MUSIC Technical Program Committee selected the winners from the field of papers presented by Magma users at top-tier technology companies, including IBM, National Semiconductor and Wipro.
Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and CEO, gave a keynote address describing the "Electronic Ocean" and predicting a tidal wave of demand for mixed-signal chips. Madhavan explained how Magma's unique ability to integrate analog and digital design has transformed the company into the leading provider of mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. Tekton™, Magma's next-generation static timing analyzer, and QCP™, a new, fast, full-chip extractor, were announced at MUSIC and highlighted in Madhavan's keynote and in a user paper. Tekton's ability to perform static timing analysis in just minutes for the industry's biggest chips – on a single machine – generated great interest from attendees.
"At MUSIC I had the opportunity to interact with users from a wide range semiconductor companies," Madhavan said. "They are working on some really exciting designs and many are mixed signal. But they have smaller teams, shorter schedules and tougher requirements. It was great to be able to show them how Tekton and other new Magma products will enable them to get their jobs done faster and with better results."
Magma users who missed the conference can access the MUSIC papers and presentations via MOLTEN, Magma's online technical support portal. Two more MUSIC conferences are scheduled: March 23 in Shanghai, China and March 30 in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.
About Magma
Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software provides the "Fastest Path to Silicon"™ and enables the world's top chip companies to create high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, digital video, networking and other electronic applications. Magma products are used in IC implementation, analog/mixed-signal design, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and characterization. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's 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 and www.magma-da.com.cn.
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