Released on = May 4, 2006, 10:29 pm

Press Release Author = PRHUB

Industry = Semiconductors

Press Release Summary = Magma® Design Automation , today announced that Beceem
Communications, a leading provider of chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology, has
achieved first-pass silicon success on a multimillion-gate, low-power Mobile WiMAX
design using Blast CreateT, Blast Fusion® , Blast PlanT Pro, Blast PowerT and Blast
Noise®.



With Magma's Integrated and predictable RTL-to-GDSII flow the productivity of an
engineering team improves by 30 %.



Press Release Body = Press release for immediate publication:



Magma's Blast Create, Blast Fusion, Blast Plan Pro and Blast Power Deliver

First-Pass Silicon Success for Beceem's Multimillion-Gate Mobile WiMAX Design



Integrated, predictable flow improves productivity of an engineering team by 30 percent



Bangalore, May 05, 06: Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of
semiconductor design software, today announced that Beceem Communications, a leading
provider of chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology, has achieved first-pass silicon
success on a multimillion-gate, low-power Mobile WiMAX design using Blast CreateT,
Blast Fusion® , Blast PlanT Pro, Blast PowerT and Blast Noise®. With Magma's
integrated RTL-to-GDSII flow, a small, geographically distributed team of Beceem
engineers was able to implement and sign-off on the design 30 percent faster than
they had ever done using a conventional point-tool flow. Beceem cellular carrier
customers are already testing samples of the Mobile WiMAX integrated circuit (ICs)
in their next-generation systems.



"To keep up with the rapidly growing demand for broadband connectivity we need an IC
implementation flow that delivers predictability, performance and fast turnaround
time," said Mark Hashemi, vice president of ASIC Engineering at Beceem. "Magma not
only provides us with the best RTL-to-GDSII flow but it provides us with the best
support team in the industry; and this has been a key to our success. Magma's system
concurrently addresses timing, power, area and noise, and incorporates key
capabilities such as DFT insertion and a sign-off-quality timing into a single
environment. As a result, it was easy for our engineers to learn, there were no
iterations between our logic and physical design teams, and they were able to
deliver fast and impressive results."



"As a pioneer in the Mobile WiMAX market Beceem has a very complex and
time-sensitive design challenge: to deliver chipsets that can deal with the
ever-changing signal conditions in a wireless network," said Kam Kittrell, Magma's
general manager of the Design Implementation Business Unit. "Beceem's first-pass
silicon success demonstrates the ability of the Magma software to address the
demands of large, complex designs."

About Magma's RTL-to-GDSII Flow

Magma provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII flow within a single executable. Blast Create
and Blast Fusion are the cornerstones of the integrated flow. Blast Create is an
RTL-to-placed-gates system that enables logic designers to synthesize, visualize,
evaluate and improve the quality of their RTL code, design constraints, testability
requirements and floorplan. Blast Create integrates fast, full-featured,
high-capacity logic and physical synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static
timing analysis, design for test (DFT) analysis and synthesis, and power analysis.
Blast Fusion is a physical design solution that includes optimization, place and
route, useful skew clock generation, floor planning and power planning, RC
extraction and a single, built-in incremental timing analyzer. Based on Magma's
unified data model, Blast Fusion accurately predicts final timing prior to detailed
placement, eliminates timing closure iterations and enables rapid design closure,
taking into account new nanometer design challenges such as on-chip variation (OCV).



Blast Plan Pro, Blast Power and Blast Noise work in conjunction with Blast Create
and Blast Fusion. The high-capacity hierarchical design planning and prototyping
capabilities in Blast Plan Pro enable designers to minimize the cycle time for
top-level analysis and optimization on large and complex designs. Blast Plan Pro
leverages Magma's unique GlassBoxT modeling technology to retain the relevant timing
information in each block, allowing full optimization with minimal data. With Blast
Power, low-power analysis and optimization engines are integrated with - and applied
throughout - the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow. Advanced capabilities are also provided
such as MTCMOS switch insertion. Blast Noise is Magma\'s complete integrated signal
integrity analysis and prevention solution. Blast Noise works concurrently
throughout the implementation flow to automatically analyze and adjust a chip design
to avoid crosstalk noise, crosstalk delay and signal electromigration (EM) problems.




About Magma

Magma's software for integrated circuit (IC) design is recognized as embodying the
best in semiconductor technology. The world\'s top chip companies use Magma\'s EDA
software to design and verify complex, high-performance ICs for communications,
computing, consumer electronics and networking applications, while at the same time
reducing design time and costs. Magma provides software for IC implementation,
analysis, physical verification, characterization and programmable logic design, and
the company\'s integrated RTL-to-GDSII design flow offers \"The Fastest Path from RTL
to Silicon\"T. Magma is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in
this press release, including statements that the Magma software addresses the
demands of large, complex designs and other statements about the features and
benefits of the Magma software 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; and its products'
abilities to produce desired results. Further discussion of these and other
potential risk factors may be found in Magma\'s public







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