Released on: January 30, 2008, 5:17 am

Press Release Author: Magma Design Automation

Industry: Semiconductors

Press Release Summary: Magma® Design Automation Inc., a provider of chip design
software, announced that NVIDIA Corporation standardized on Magma's Talus® IC
implementation software for design of 45-nanometer (nm) integrated circuits. NVIDIA
selected Talus because it offers advanced capabilities for addressing 45-nm design
challenges, supporting leading edge 45-nm routing rule and extraction, low-power
design and large, high-utilization macro-rich designs. By leveraging Talus'
advanced, integrated capabilities NVIDIA can achieve better time to market and
higher productivity.





Press Release Body: Bangalore, January 30, 2008: Magma® Design Automation Inc.
(Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that NVIDIA
Corporation standardized on Magma's Talus® IC implementation software for design of
45-nanometer (nm) integrated circuits. NVIDIA selected Talus because it offers
advanced capabilities for addressing 45-nm design challenges, supporting leading
edge 45-nm routing rule and extraction, low-power design and large, high-utilization
macro-rich designs. By leveraging Talus' advanced, integrated capabilities such as a
congestion-aware automated macro placer, rapid timing and DRC closure, and
sign-off-correlated post-layout optimization, NVIDIA can achieve better time to
market and higher productivity.



"NVIDIA produces some of the world's largest designs at advanced process nodes, and
the success of these designs is dependent on meeting very tight time-to-market
demands," said David Dumoulin, director of Engineering at NVIDIA. "Because of this,
improving our overall design quality is important. The Talus platform, which
provides unique integrated features that directly address our 45-nm design
challenges, allows us to significantly accelerate design optimization to achieve
better quality of results."



"Magma's Talus IC implementation software provides advanced capabilities, a high
degree of automation and a proven predictable flow," said Kam Kittrell, general
manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "NVIDIA's decision to
standardize on Talus for its 45-nm ICs confirms Magma software's ability to address
the design challenges of advanced process nodes."



Talus: The Platform for 45-nm Design

Magma's Talus IC implementation software provides advanced capabilities for 45-nm
design within an integrated and highly automated RTL-to-GDSII flow. The front-end
product allows logic designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve RTL
code quality, design constraints, testability requirements and floorplan. Talus also
integrates fast, full-featured, high-capacity predictable synthesis capabilities,
full and incremental static timing analysis and power analysis. Magma's physical
design solution includes optimization, place and route, useful skew clock
generation, floorplanning and power planning, RC extraction and a single, built-in
incremental timing analyzer. Based on Magma\'s unified data model, this platform
accurately predicts final timing prior to detailed placement, eliminates timing
closure iterations and enables rapid design closure while taking into account 45-nm
effects such as on-chip variation (OCV). Magma supports leading foundries' 45-nm
routing rules and parasitic technology files.



The Magma platform also includes advanced power optimization and management
capabilities, and implements multiple power-saving design strategies to achieve
maximum power reduction. The Magma system integrates low-power analysis and
optimization engines throughout the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow. The system supports
advanced techniques such as native multi-Vt, automated multi-voltage designs,
adaptive voltage scaling using concurrent multicorner optimization and multi-Vdd,
and physical implementation that meets leading foundries' 45-nm dynamic and leakage
power requirements.



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 and Talus are registered trademarks, and "Design Ahead of the Curve," is a
trademark 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 Magma software improves performance
and reduces turnaround time and manufacturing costs of 45-nm chips 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 ability to keep pace with rapidly
changing technology, its products' abilities to produce desired results and NVIDIA's
decision to continue using Magma software. 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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