Marvell Implements High-Speed, High-Volume Communications Designs with

Marvell Implements High-Speed, High-Volume Communications Designs with Magma's Blast Create and Blast Fusion

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    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2005--

Tight Integration of Advanced Synthesis and Place & Route Capabilities Deliver Reduced Area and Turnaround Time
    Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, today announced that Marvell(R) Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:MRVL), the technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications and storage solutions, has achieved silicon success on several designs using Magma's Blast Create(TM) and Blast Fusion(R) software. Marvell selected Magma's software as an alternate synthesis and place & route flow that offered tight integration and could meet Marvell's timing, area and turnaround time requirements. With the Magma software, Marvell was able to reduce area by as much as 5 to 10 percent, resulting in increased yield and a significant die cost savings. On one of the more complex chips, Marvell was able to take the design from RTL to GDSII in just 8 weeks while meeting timing and area goals, minimizing development costs.
    "To stay ahead in the highly competitive communications market, Marvell operates on a continuous cycle of innovation, and that includes adopting advanced chip design tools such as Magma's," said Pantas Sutardja, CTO and co-founder of Marvell. "In each of the designs we've implemented with Blast Create and Blast Fusion, we have consistently achieved our design goals in terms of timing, area and turnaround time."
    "We are pleased that such a successful company as Marvell has leveraged the tight integration of Blast Create and Blast Fusion to reduce costs while meeting performance and time-to-market requirements," said Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chief executive officer. "Partnerships with customers like Marvell provide us with the motivation and knowledge to continue delivering innovative products."

    Integrated Synthesis and Physical Implementation Reduces Area and Increases Productivity

    Blast Create and Blast Fusion, the cornerstones of Magma's integrated RTL-to-GDSII system, are based on the patented FixedTiming(TM) methodology and a unified data model. This unique technology and system architecture provide a tightly coupled logic and physical optimization flow. Magma's system determines the design's optimal timing prior to detailed physical design, then dynamically controls the size, placement and interconnects of each cell to maintain the established optimal timing. This correct-by-construction approach eliminates the need to re-synthesize to meet timing. By ensuring that each cell is sized optimally for the driven load, Magma's system is able to deliver designs that consume less power and area while meeting the timing requirement.

    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 design planning, 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.

    Blast Fusion and Magma are registered trademarks, and Blast Create and "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon" are trademarks, of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and 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 Blast Fusion and Blast Create reduce area, increase yield, minimize development costs and meet timing goals, and statements that the Magma system is able to deliver designs that consume less power and area while meeting timing requirements, and other statements about the features and benefits of Magma's 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 the ability of Magma's products to produce the desired results and Magma's ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. 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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CONTACT: Magma Design Automation Inc. Maxine Bingham, 408-565-7631 maxine@magma-da.com

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