Press release for immediate publication:

Magma's Talus IC Implementation System Supports

TSMC 28-nm Process Technology through Reference
Flow 12.0

Magma delivers new differentiated features for improved power and

performance

Bangalore, May 31, 2011:Magma® Design Automation Inc.

(Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced
that Magma's Talus®, Hydra™, Tekton™, QCP™ and Quartz™ DRC
integrated circuit (IC) implementation and verification solutions have
been qualified to support the TSMC Reference Flow 12.0. Through
TSMC's Open Innovation Platform (OIP), Magma's product suite
provides users with advanced features to address the challenges of 28-
nanometer (nm) design.

"Magma and TSMC have already worked closely to support the design
and manufacture of a number of 28-nm ICs for the industry’s highest
volume fabless companies,” said Premal Buch, general manager of
Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "With Talus, Hydra,
Tekton, QCP and Quartz DRC, and Reference Flow 12.0, mutual
customers can have a high level of confidence in their ability to
successfully deliver differentiated ICs using Magma and TSMC
solutions."
"Close collaboration with leading EDA vendors such as Magma is
critical to delivering the 28-nm design ecosystem,” said Suk Lee,
director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC. “Our mutual
customers’ silicon successes highlight the effectiveness of TSMC’s
process technology and Talus, Hydra, Tekton and Quartz for ICs at 28
nm.”

28-nm Design Enablement

Magma's Talus RTL-to-GDSII IC Implementation system supports TSMC
28-nm design rules that have been enhanced in Reference Flow 12.0.
Talus' support of Reference Flow 12.0 takes advantage of new power
and performance features, providing customers with faster overall
design closure and better performance and predictability. In addition,
Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification tools support
in-the-loop physical verification.

Improved Performance
At 28 nm and below it becomes increasingly complicated to capture
the number of potential variations at all process corners. With
Reference Flow 12.0, greater performance is achieved using multiple
advanced stage-based on-chip variation (OCV) optimization and
analysis tables instead of a single OCV value. This analysis technique is
available in Tekton, Magma's standalone static timing analysis tool,
and is also supported by Talus Vortex through its MX timing engine.
This technique can reduce traditional OCV pessimism and improve
performance by removing some of the punitive pessimism associated
with traditional OCV modeling.

Reference Flow 12.0 additionally provides significant user margin

control through add-on OCV that allows further modeling of voltage
and temperature variation and cell-based constraint uncertainty, both
of which are supported fully by Talus Vortex and Tekton.

To ensure optimal dummy fill after GDSII stream-out, Reference Flow

12.0 provides for timing criticality information to be passed through to
latter stages of the flow, a technique also fully supported by Talus
Vortex.
New Low-Power Features
TSMC supports both the Common Power Format (CPF) and Unified
Power Format (UPF) in Reference Flow 12.0. Talus Power Pro, Magma's
advanced low-power optimization technology, also supports both the
CPF 1.1 and UPF 2.0 power intent standards. This provides customers
with complete flexibility in defining power intent. Talus Power Pro's
industry-leading multiple voltage domain (MVdd) infrastructure
delivers the most comprehensive power support combined with the
simplest use model. In particular, its dynamic voltage and frequency
scaling (DVFS) low-power technologies, bolstered by an industry-
leading multi-mode, multi-corner framework, enables customers to
deliver the maximum performance per watt. These capabilities,
combined with Magma's Hydra hierarchical design planner, allow
customers to design very large, low-power systems on a chip without
sacrificing performance.

To support Reference Flow 12.0, Talus Vortex also delivers optimized

cell placement to minimize power hotspots and delivers native
electromigration-safe clock placement and network topologies
throughout the flow. Talus Vortex with Talus Power Pro now supports
post-route multi-mode, multi-corner-aware leakage power optimization
through Magma’s Tekton timing analysis tool.

Magma Support for TSMC Reference Flow 12.0

Reference Flow 12.0 is supported by Magma's full RTL-to-GDSII suite of
tools, which includes:
 • Talus Design – physically aware RTL synthesis
• Talus Vortex – advanced timing and DFM-aware physical
implementation
• Talus Power Pro – low-power optimization
• Hydra – hierarchical design planning
• Talus qDRC – timing-aware metal fill
• Quartz DRC – design rule checking
• Tekton – static timing analysis
• QCP – sign-off-quality extraction

See Magma at DAC

To learn more about TSMC’s Reference Flow 12.0 and Magma’s Talus,
Hydra, Tekton, QCP and Quartz DRC, visit Magma in booth 1743, or in
TSMC’s booth 2535 at the 48th Design Automation Conference, June 6-
8 in the San Diego Convention Center. Magma will offer demos of its
complete line of technology-leading solutions that streamline
customization of high-performance core designs, facilitate
implementation of large SoCs, automate analog/mixed-signal design
and reuse, provide the fastest throughput and predictable closure of
complex application-specific chips and enable cost-effective, highly
reliable memory sub system design. For more information about
Magma at DAC, visit www.magma-da.com/DAC.

About Magma
Top semiconductor makers worldwide use Magma’s electronic design
automation (EDA) software to produce chips for electronic applications
including tablet computing devices, mobile devices such as
smartphones, electronic games, digital video, networking,
military/aerospace and memory. Magma products provide the "Fastest
Path to Silicon”™ and include software for digital design, analog
implementation, mixed-signal design, physical verification, circuit
simulation, characterization and yield management. The company
maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout
North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on
Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at
www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at
www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the
Web at www.magma-da.com.

Magma and Talus are registered trademarks and “Fastest Path to

Silicon,” Hydra, QCP, Quartz and Tekton are trademarks 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 combination of the
TSMC Reference Flow 12.0, and Hydra, QCP, Quartz DRC, Talus and
Tekton improve performance and power on 28-nm ICs, and about the
features and benefits of TSMC and Magma products 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
TSMC’s and Magma’s abilities to keep pace with rapidly changing
technology and the companies’ products’ abilities to produce desired
results. 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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