Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Design Automation Conference 2004
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2004--Magma(R)
Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design
solutions, today became a Corporate member of Accellera, the
electronics industry organization focused on electronic design
automation (EDA) standards. By joining Accellera, Magma has pledged to
become actively involved in defining and evolving the SystemVerilog
standard, implementation efforts, and interoperability definitions.
"Magma is an influential EDA leader and we welcome the company as
a new Accellera member," said Dennis Brophy, chairman of Accellera.
"Our ongoing standards efforts will benefit from Magma's active
participation and valuable technical expertise."
"SystemVerilog is being adopted by some of our high-end customers
and, being a technology leader, we want to be at the leading edge of
the adoption curve," said Yatin Trivedi, Magma's director of product
marketing. "Blast Create has been proven to provide a predictable
handoff to ASIC vendors, and Magma is now the leading EDA vendor in
the integrated RTL-to-GDSII implementation market. We joined Accellera
to ensure that our users' concerns about interoperability among all
EDA vendors are adequately addressed and in a timely fashion."
Magma will exhibit at the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC),
at the San Diego Convention Center June 7-10. For more information
about Magma visit: www.magma-da.com.
About Accellera
Accellera provides design standards for quick availability and use
in the electronics industry. The organization and its members
cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of
designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's
partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the
IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. For
more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org.
Accellera is located at 1370 Trancas St., #163, Napa, Calif. 94558.
Phone: 707-251-9977, Fax: 707-251-9877, info@accellera.org.
About Magma Design Automation
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 design planning, 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.
Magma is a registered trademark and Blast Create and "The Fastest
Path from RTL to Silicon" are trademarks of Magma Design Automation
Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and 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 about
Magma working to define and evolve the SystemVerilog standard,
implementation efforts, and interoperability definitions 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, Magma's decision to continue to participate in Accellera,
its 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 Magma's public
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov).
Magma undertakes no additional obligation to update these
forward-looking statements.
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CONTACT: Magma Design Automation Inc.
Monica Marmie, 408-565-7689
monical@magma-da.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING HARDWARE SOFTWARE
COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS PRODUCT TRADESHOW EDA
SOURCE: Magma Design Automation
