HDL Design House Adopts Magma’s Chip Design Software

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2011 – Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, and HDL Design House, creators of re-usable IP cores, verification components and behavioral simulation models, today announced that HDL Design House has adopted the full suite of Magma chip design software, including the Talus® digital IC implementation system and the Titan™ mixed-signal design platform. With Magma as its primary EDA vendor, HDL Design House will now be able to provide its clients with complete mixed-signal system on chip (SoC) design services, and be able to augment their current family of soft digital IP cores with analog IP. Its proven technology leadership was crucial in HDL Design House’s decision to standardize on Magma’s digital and analog implementation, simulation, verification and characterization software.

Netlist Awarded Additional Patents for HyperCloud(TM) Memory Innovations

Three new patents further extend Netlist's patent protection of rank multiplication and load reduction innovations

Netlist, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLST), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance memory subsystems, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has recently issued to Netlist U.S. Patent No. 7,864,627 entitled "Memory Module Decoder," U.S. Patent No 7,881,150 entitled "Circuit Providing Load Isolation and Memory Domain Translation for Memory Module," and U.S. Patent No 7,916,574, a continuation of the '150.

These patents add to Netlist's growing intellectual property portfolio protecting the Company's HyperCloud(TM) innovations that utilize Rank Multiplication and Load Reduction Technologies.

iWatt Selects Magma’s Titan to Automate Analog Design

SAN JOSE and LOS GATOS, Calif., March 28, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced iWatt has adopted the Titan™ platform to improve analog design and layout productivity, and to automate difficult routing tasks including analog cell layouts and chip-level assembly. iWatt, a developer of energy-efficient digital power supply control integrated circuits (ICs) used in leading-edge power supplies, adopted Titan based on results of an extensive evaluation in which Titan enabled iWatt’s designers to set up and route a design in just 2 days – an effort that would have taken more than 2 weeks to do manually.

Magma Names Maggie Chen to Head Taiwan Operations

HSINCHU, Taiwan, and SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2011 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced the appointment of Maggie Chen as country manager for the company's Taiwan operations. Chen reports to Charlie Shin, Magma’s vice president of Asia-Pacific Sales.

“Maggie brings a great combination of managerial and sales achievement and I expect her experience will help our Taiwan team achieve even greater success,” Chin said. "Taiwan is a key market for Magma and I anticipate that Maggie will contribute to our efforts here right away."