Fabless Start-up Enuclia Semiconductor Selects Magma EDA Software for

Fabless Start-up Enuclia Semiconductor Selects Magma EDA Software for IC Design

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    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2005--

Enuclia's Using Magma's Blast Create and Blast Plan Pro to Create Chip for Flat Panel Television Industry
    Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, announced that Enuclia Semiconductor has selected Magma's front-end design tools, Blast Create(TM) and Blast Plan(TM) Pro, to prototype designs in FPGAs and structured ASICs, and then move them into to Enuclia's ASIC/COT (customer-owned tooling) design flow.
    "Enuclia has been impressed with the ability of Magma's products to provide for seamless design transitions from FPGA prototyping to structured ASIC, and ultimately to our ASIC/COT design flow," said Carl Ruggiero, CTO of Enuclia Semiconductor. "We are using Magma's unique tools to achieve a high quality, low power design on schedule and with a smaller die size.
    Architecture-specific synthesis and physical optimizations are integrated into Magma's Blast Create product to deliver superior quality of results (QoR). Using Magma's unified synthesis flow, Enuclia's engineering team has a straightforward process for migrating from FPGA prototyping to structured ASICs for low-volume field testing, then to standard cell ASIC designs for production release. Magma's unified synthesis flow can immediately assess trade-offs in area, performance, and power early in the design cycle to provide hardware implementation options to designers.
    Magma's Blast Plan Pro provides for virtual prototyping and partitioning of large designs into manageable blocks. It also uses its patented GlassBox(TM) abstraction technology for accurate budgeting of the chip-level timing constraints among the top-level blocks. Each block can then be implemented concurrently and modeled as a GlassBox for full-chip extraction and timing signoff, power analysis, crosstalk fixing, clock tree synthesis, and final assembly. The floorplanning automation and virtual prototype feedback in Blast Plan Pro lets engineers make floorplanning and partitioning decisions to achieve their full-chip timing and area goals.
    Magma's integrated flow offers time-to-market and performance benefits for companies developing FPGAs and ASICs from different vendors. By deploying Magma's flow in its design environment, Enuclia can use the same RTL, standard scripts, design constraints, and user interface across platforms. This streamlines the design flow by eliminating time spent learning the use of disparate tools.
    "We have found that tool installation, maintenance and support are greatly simplified by Magma's Volcano integrated data model structure," said Tom Moxon, principal IC design engineer at Enuclia. "Magma Volcano lets us easily hand-off a design to foundry partners and ensures they will view the design just as we do. We also like the collaboration and team design features in Magma's products."
    "We are excited to be working with the world-class design team at Enuclia," said Behrooz Zahiri, director of business development for Magma Design Automation. "That an innovator such as Enuclia has chosen Magma tools to achieve QoR and fast time to market is a testament to Magma's innovative approach to EDA."

    About Enuclia Semiconductor

    Enuclia Semiconductor of Beaverton, Ore. is developing a revolutionary, intelligent technology that will deliver unparalleled image quality and cost savings to the world's leading manufacturers of integrated digital televisions. The company recently closed its Series A funding round, which was co-led by Seven-Rosen Funds and BA Venture Partners. Visit www.enuclia.com for the latest company news and information on career opportunities.

    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 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, Blast Plan Pro, GlassBox, Volano and "Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" are trademarks of Magma Design Automation. Other products and trademarks are owned by 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's architecture-specific synthesis and physical optimizations shorten design cycles and ensure quality of results 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 and Enuclia's decision to continue working together, abilities to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and the ability of Magma's products to produce desired results. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on form 10-K, and any subsequent updates thereto on form 10-Q. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Magma disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT: Magma Design Automation Inc. Maxine Bingham, 408-565-7631 maxine@magma-da.com

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