Magma and ChipX Team to Deliver Unified RTL-to-GDSII Design Flow for Structured ASIC Platforms

• Published in: Business Wire p. 1
• Format: Newsletter
• Language: English
• Published: New York Business Wire 14.09.2004
• Subjects: Automation; Design; Integrated circuits; Magma; Massabki, Elie; Trademarks; SANTA CLARA, Calif

Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions and ChipX, the structured ASIC leader, today announced the availability of a unified RTL-to-GDSII design flow based on Magma's Blast Create(TM) and Blast Fusion(R). The companies have worked together to test and customize the Magma flow to support the ChipX CX5000 family and future structured ASIC product families. The flow will be used by mutual customers and by ChipX to deliver low-cost structured ASIC designs or to migrate FPGA designs to ChipX's structured ASIC platforms. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements about the features and benefits of the Magma flow for the ChipX 5000 and future product families and that customers and ChipX will use the flow for structured ASIC design and/or to migrate FPGA designs to ChipX's structured ASIC platform 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 ChipX's decisions to continue working together, their products' abilities to produce the desired results and the companies' abilities 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.