Magma to Offer Hands-on Tutorial and Product Demonstrations at DAC

5/13/2004 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, announced that its activities at the 41st Design Automation Conference will include product demonstrations on power management; prototyping; nanometer design closure; programmable logic solutions; and characterization and modeling. Magma will also offer a hands-on tutorial on power minimization and participate in four panel discussions during the conference, June 7-11 in San Diego.

Magma’s hands-on tutorial entitled “Flows for Power Minimization” will be conducted by Magma’s Patrick Groeneveld in conjunction with Infineon Technologies. The tutorial is Wednesday, June 9, from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 11 of the San Diego Convention Center.

Magma is also participating in four panel discussions:

  • “EDA Mergers & Acquisitions: Glory or Death?” on Monday, June 7 at 11:15 a.m. in the Panel Pavilion on the exhibit floor, will be moderated by John Barr, former electronic design automation (EDA) analyst and presently a senior vice president with Buckingham Capital Management. Featured panelists include Venk Shukla, Magma’s senior vice president, market development.
  • “User Forums or Useless Forums?” is a Pavilion Panel moderated by Naveed Sherwani of Open Silicon. The panel includes Pallab Chatterjee, president of SiliconMap and chairman of Magma’s MUSIC users group meetings. The panel is Monday, June 7 at 4 p.m.
  • “What Happened to ASIC? Go (Recon)figure?” will address the topic of structured ASICS on Tuesday, June 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 6B and will include Magma’s Jason Cong on the panel.
  • “SI Noise Sign-Off – What are you really signing off on?” is a Magma-hosted breakfast panel moderated by Jim Lipman, long-time observer of EDA who has written about the industry for a number of publications. It will be Wednesday, June 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 27A on Level 2 of the convention center.

Demonstrations of Magma’s EDA software will include:

  • “A Comprehensive Solution for Power Management and Power Minimization,” featuring Blast PowerTM and Blast RailTM.
  • “The Fastest Path from RTL to Implementation Using Predictable Synthesis,” featuring Blast CreateTM.
  • “Prototyping to Planning – Fast, Predictable Design Exploration,” featuring Blast PlanTM Pro.
  • “Correct-By-Construction Implementation For Nanometer Design Closure,” featuring Blast Fusion® APX, Blast Noise® and Blast RailTM.
  • “Enabling Lower-Cost Silicon Platforms,” featuring Magma’s programmable logic solutions.
  • “QuickCap® the Gold Standard for Parasitic Capacitance Extraction.”
  • “Characterization and Modeling” for signal integrity, nanometer libraries and embedded memory, featuring the SiliconSmart line of products from Magma’s Silicon Correlation Division.

For more information and to register online for the tutorial, the breakfast panel and the software demonstrations, visit Magma’s website at: www.magma-da.com/dac.

About Magma
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.

Blast Fusion, Blast Noise, Magma, and QuickCap are registered trademarks, and Blast Create, Blast Plan, Blast Power, Blast Rail and “The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon” are trademarks, of Magma Design Automation.

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