Magma's Talus Selected by Wintegra as IC Implementation Platform for Low-Power, High-Performance...

Magma's Talus Selected by Wintegra as IC Implementation Platform for Low-Power,
High-Performance 65-nm Chips

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magma(R) Design Automation
Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that
Wintegra, a leading provider of access processing semiconductors and software
for next-generation telecommunication infrastructure solutions, has selected
Magma's Talus(R) 1.1 IC implementation software. Wintegra uses the Talus
platform, which includes Talus Vortex, Talus Design and Talus Power Pro, because
it offers integrated capabilities that enable Wintegra to incorporate more
functionality in a single chip while reducing power consumption, area and cost.

Wintegra provides a wide range of communication platforms used by many of the
leading telecom and networking equipment manufacturers worldwide. "As the
complexity of our designs increased, we needed a solution that was able to meet
our performance and power requirements," said Yoram Yeivin, senior vice
president of Engineering at Wintegra. "We chose Magma's Talus because it
provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII flow that enables us to meet timing
requirements while reducing power on 65-nanometer designs. It's easy to adopt,
too. Our transition to the Magma flow was smooth and accomplished in less than 6
weeks."

"Doing more with less is key in today's electronics industry," said Premal Buch,
general manager of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Talus' advanced
capabilities, high level of automation and integrated approach improve designer
productivity. That is why companies such as Wintegra are moving to Talus to
deliver more complex designs and better results while minimizing development
costs."

Talus: The Platform for Low-Power, High-Performance Designs

Magma's Talus IC implementation software provides advanced capabilities for
high-speed, low-power designs within an integrated and highly automated
RTL-to-GDSII flow. Talus Design allows logic designers to synthesize, visualize,
evaluate and improve RTL code quality, design constraints, testability
requirements and floorplan. Talus Design also integrates fast, full-featured,
high-capacity predictable synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static
timing analysis, and power analysis. Talus Vortex, Magma's physical design
solution, includes optimization, place and route, useful skew clock generation,
power planning, RC extraction and a single, built-in incremental timing
analyzer. The system leverages the Talus(R) COre(TM) (Concurrent Optimizing
Routing Engine) technology to apply the full scope of timing optimization
incrementally during routing. Based on Magma's unified data model, the Talus
platform accurately predicts final timing before detailed placement, eliminates
timing closure iterations and enables rapid design closure while taking into
account nanometer effects such as on-chip variation (OCV).

Talus Power Pro provides advanced power optimization and management
capabilities, and implements multiple power-saving design strategies to achieve
maximum power reduction. The complete Talus system integrates low-power analysis
and optimization engines throughout the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow. The system
supports advanced techniques such as native multi-Vt, automated multi-voltage
designs, adaptive voltage scaling using concurrent multicorner optimization and
multi-Vdd, and physical implementation that meets leading foundries' nanometer
dynamic and leakage power requirements.

About Magma

Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software provides the "Fastest Path
to Silicon"(TM) and enables the world's top chip companies to create
high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for cellular telephones, electronic
games, WiFi, MP3 players, digital video, networking and other electronic
applications. Magma products are used in IC implementation, analog/mixed-signal
design, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and
characterization. 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 COre and "Fastest Path to
Silicon" 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 Magma software improves
performance and productivity while reducing turnaround time, 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 ability to keep pace with
rapidly changing technology, its products' abilities to produce desired results
and Wintegra's decision to continue using Magma software. 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.
Monica Marmie, Director, Marketing Communications
(408) 565-7689
mmarmie@magma-da.com