Magma Design Automation Inc. today announced that ZiiLABS has implemented its 14th design using Magma’s software. The recently announced 100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor combines 96 of ZiiLABS' StemCell media processing cores with four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs to deliver stunning multi-tasking application and media processing performance and is optimized for Android-based handheld and tablet computing applications.

Magma Design Automation Inc. and MunEDA Inc. announced today the completion of a collaborative effort to integrate Magma’s FineSim SPICE simulator and MunEDA’s WiCkeD tools suite. The joint solution enhances and speeds the analysis, modeling and optimization of full-custom analog and digital circuit designs – especially in leading-edge 28-nanometer (nm) and 20-nm process technologies.

Magma Design Automation Inc. announced today that SuVolta, Inc. has expanded its business relationship with Magma by entering into a licensing agreement to use the FineSim SPICE multi-CPU circuit simulator.

Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced today that it has received the eSilicon Corporation 2011 Supplier of the Year Award. Magma, an eSilicon technology and business partner since 2003, beat out a crowded field this past year by providing technology leadership, product quality, lowest total cost of ownership and excellent customer service.

Magma Design Automation has announced that Dolphin Technology has standardized on the FineSim SPICE multi-CPU circuit simulation technology to accelerate delivery of high quality intellectual property (IP). Magma’s FineSim SPICE has enabled Dolphin Technology to quickly and accurately run thousands of simulations of their IP across all process corners. By increasing simulation coverage without sacrificing accuracy, FineSim SPICE enables Dolphin...

Magma Design Automation Inc. today announced the availability of a new version of the FineSim Pro full-chip circuit-level simulation product that delivers 3X faster runtime than previous versions while continuing to deliver SPICE-accurate results. As an example, FineSim Pro was able to simulate a large post-layout design containing more than 75K MOS devices and more than 2.9 million parasitic resistors and capacitors in a little over an hour. Wit...

Magma Design Automation has reported revenue of $38.3 million for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended Oct. 30, 2011, up 13 percent from the $33.9 million reported in the year-ago second quarter. During the second quarter, Magma made great business and technical progress—adding a record number of new logos and generating positive cash flow for the 11th consecutive quarter, said Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and chief executive officer. Our p...

Magma Design Automation has announced the company has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Synopsys. The combination of the two companies’ technologies, development capabilities, support teams and sales channels will provide chip designers with greater access to state-of-the art electronic design automation (EDA) solutions that enable more profitable silicon.

Magma Design Automation Inc. has announced that recent improvements to the Talus 1.2 integrated circuit (IC) implementation platform have triggered a significant increase in customer adoption. Since its initial release 12 months ago, Magma has continued to refine the system, improving runtime by 40 percent and enhancing high-performance core design capabilities. The result is a robust and silicon-proven solution that accelerates development and ...

Magma Design Automation has announced the availability of a new version of the FineSim Pro full-chip circuit-level simulation product that delivers 3X faster runtime than previous versions while continuing to deliver SPICE-accurate results. As an example, FineSim Pro was able to simulate a large post-layout design containing more than 75K MOS devices and more than 2.9 million parasitic resistors and capacitors in a little over an hour. With this ...

Magma Design Automation has announced the availability of a new release of the Titan Analog/Mixed-Signal (Titan AMS) Design Platform. With patent-pending analog design technology, Titan provides an innovative FlexCell-to-GDSII analog/mixed-signal (AMS) flow that organically integrates both electrical design and physical design into one unified design methodology. This paradigm-shifting, electrical-physical co-design flow ranges from front-end des...

Magma Design Automation has announced that since its release 18 months ago, Tekton has grown its customer base to more than 25 companies, achieving the fastest adoption rate of any tool in the company’s history. Tekton, the most advanced sign-off-quality static timing analysis (STA) tool on the market, was introduced to the industry in the spring of 2010. This unprecedented growth was accomplished despite the chip industry’s shrinking electro...

Magma Design Automation has announced Exar Corporation has adopted the Tekton static timing analysis and QCP extraction software to accelerate sign-off and engineering change order (ECO) flows for 40-nanometer systems on a chip (SoCs). Exar selected the Magma solution after an extensive evaluation in which Tekton and QCP were shown to efficiently perform multi-mode multi-corner analysis and extraction, to deliver 5X faster runtime than traditiona...

Magma Design Automation has announced its Titan Analog Design Accelerator was adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor. Titan ADX was selected by Fujitsu Semiconductor after an extensive evaluation in which the software was used to optimize and port a variety of analog intellectual property (IP) circuits to new design specifications and processes. The evaluation demonstrated Titan ADX’s ability to increase designer productivity, to accelerate turnaroun...

Magma Design Automation has announced that Analog Bits, accelerates analog IP verification for its precision clocking macros, programmable interconnect solutions and specialized memories using FineSim SPICE multi-CPU circuit simulation technology. Using the FineSim SPICE multi-CPU simulation technology, Analog Bits has significantly shortened simulation runtimes, increasing simulation coverage without sacrificing accuracy.

Magma Design Automation has announced SystemNav, a next-generation tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to stacked die, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). SystemNav is the only commercially available tool that integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online trace and circuit debugging with CAD navigation. SystemNav allows rapid signal traces on chips, stacked dies and MCMs a...

Magma Design Automation has announced SystemNav, a next-generation tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to stacked die, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). SystemNav is the only commercially available tool that integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online trace and circuit debugging with CAD navigation. SystemNav allows rapid signal traces on chips, stacked dies and MCMs ...

Magma Design Automation has announced that Adapteva used Magma software to tape out the Epiphany-IV 64-core microprocessor array IC targeted to GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28-nm SLP process. By leveraging Magma’s Talus, Hydra and Titan leveraging Magma’s Talus, Hydra and Titan digital and analog IC design solutions and the Quartz DRC/LVS physical verification tool with newly qualified runsets for the 28-nm SLP process, Adapteva was able to deliver the...

Magma Design Automation has announced that eSilicon Corporation used Magma software to tape out a three-way microprocessor cluster based on MIPS’ leading-edge MIPS32 1074Kf Coherent Processing System (CPS). Typical performance of the cluster is expected to be approximately 1.5GHz with worst-case performance of 1GHz. By leveraging Magma’s Talus IC implementation platform and the Talus-Flow-Manager-Based Reference Flow for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 28nm...

Magma® Design Automation brings its Silicon One Seminar Series to Europe next month, with one-day seminars to be held in the UK and France. The European dates are part of a global roadshow which includes events in the US, Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan and Israel. Magma will host the France seminar on Tuesday 8th November at Sophia Antipolis, and on Thursday 10th November in London.