SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov.21, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced its Titan™ Analog Design Accelerator (Titan ADX) was adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor. Titan ADX was selected by Fujitsu Semiconductor after an extensive evaluation in which the software was used to optimize and port a variety of analog intellectual property (IP) circuits to new design specifications and processes. The evaluation demonstrated Titan ADX’s ability to increase designer productivity, to accelerate turnaround time on systems on chip (SoCs) and to reduce the cost of analog design and reuse.

Analog Bits Accelerates Analog IP Verification Using Magma’s FineSim SPICE

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 18, 2011 – Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Analog Bits, Inc., the integrated clocking and interface IP leader, accelerates analog IP verification for its precision clocking macros, programmable interconnect solutions and specialized memories using FineSim™ SPICE multi-CPU circuit simulation technology.

Using the FineSim SPICE multi-CPU simulation technology, Analog Bits has significantly shortened simulation runtimes, increasing simulation coverage without sacrificing accuracy.

Samsung Renews Tessera License

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA - News) (the “Company”) announced today that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. exercised the renewal option in its Jan. 1, 2005 license agreement with Tessera, Inc. to extend the term of that license to May 17, 2017.

“We are delighted to have Samsung, a worldwide leader in memory technology, elect to renew its license agreement with Tessera, Inc.,” said Richard Chernicoff, president of the Intellectual Property and Micro-electronics Division of Tessera, Inc. “Samsung's intellectual property team is among the most sophisticated in the world, and we greatly value their decision to renew our license.”

Magma’s New SystemNav Speeds Board-Level Failure Analysis by Enabling Signal Trace between Chips, Stacked Dies, PCBs and MCMs

ISTFA, SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced SystemNav™, a next-generation tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to stacked die, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). SystemNav is the only commercially available tool that integrates multiple, interactive IC and PCB online trace and circuit debugging with CAD navigation. SystemNav allows rapid signal traces on chips, stacked dies and MCMs and PCBs. With SystemNav, fab teams can trace signals from chip to board, back to chip and then quickly navigate failure analysis tools to X, Y locations to determine the root cause of the fault.