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July 25, 2005 06:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

Magma Appoints Chairmen of MUSIC Technical Program Committee

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2005--Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced the recently appointed chairmen for the Technical Program Committees (TPCs) of the MUSIC users conferences. Professor Kamakothi of IIT Chennai will oversee the conference program in Bangalore, India (Aug. 24-25); Jason Karka of Texas Instruments will oversee the conference program in Santa Clara (Sept. 15-16); and Russell David of ClearSpeed will oversee the conference program in Bristol, United Kingdom (Nov. 9).

Professor Kamakothi is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Chennai. He has been using Magma software for three years for both teaching and research purposes. Jason Karka is currently the Houston DSP physical design lead at Texas Instruments and has been designing high-speed, low-power 90-nanometer Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and complex DSP-based SoCs using Magma software for the last three years. Russell David, vice president of Engineering at ClearSpeed, has been using Magma software for two and a half years. He and his design team have used Magma software to successfully complete a number of projects, including the CSX600, a 50-GFLOPs application accelerator and co-processor based on the company's advanced multi-threaded array processor.

"Magma believes that user group conferences are of the highest value when they are organized 'by the users and for the users,'" said Jason Cong, international chairman of MUSIC. "I look forward to working with this seasoned group of Magma users to develop a technically rich program that will help other users better leverage the capabilities of the Magma software to deliver advanced designs."

About MUSIC

MUSIC -- Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits -- provides a forum for Magma users to exchange ideas, discuss common problems and explore solutions related to the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits, as well as offering users an opportunity to meet with Magma staff and product experts. The MUSIC program covers the key elements of semiconductor design, from system-level design to tape-out, for systems on chips, ASICs, structured ASICs, ASSPs and FPGAs. Magma users can register to attend any of the conferences via the Magma website at www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.

Designers with perspective on using Magma software in an RTL-to-GDSII design flow for logic, physical, or low-power design, test, sign off, design for manufacturability, physical verification or FPGA design are encouraged to present at the MUSIC events. The call for papers has been distributed and is available on the Magma website along with abstract submission guidelines at www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.

Magma's EDA, IP, foundry and ASIC partners will also showcase their solutions and interoperability with Magma's software at MUSIC conferences. Magma users will see how other designers have achieved their design goals with a complete methodology that includes products from Magma's RTL-to-GDSII technology and complementary tools and technologies from Magma's partners.

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 prototyping, synthesis, place & route, and signal and power integrity chip design capabilities, capacitance extraction, design for test (DFT), physical verification (DRC/LVS), static and statistical timing analysis, and characterization and modeling in a single executable, offering "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon"(TM). Magma's software also includes products for advanced logical, physical synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable logic devices (PLDs), FPGAs and Structured ASICs; 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 "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" and MUSIC are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies.