Magma History

2011

Dec

eSilicon Recognizes Magma with 2011 Supplier of The Year Award

Nov

Synopsys acquires Magma to speed delivery of advanced mixed-signal design solutions.

Apr

Magma ranks No. 131 on the Silicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley

2010

Dec

Tekton Named to EDN’s 2010 Hot 100 Products List

Electronic Design Names Tekton to 2010 List of Best Electronic Designs

Magma Introduces Talus Vortex FX, the first and only integrated circuit (IC) implementation solution to fully utilize distributed computing for place and route. Talus Vortex FX significantly increases productivity and provides higher capacity, enabling designers to implement 2 million to 5 million cells per day with crosstalk avoidance, advanced on-chip variation (AOCV) and multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) analysis enabled – while using existing hardware resources.

Oct

TSMC honors Magma with EDA Partnership Awards for routing and extraction at the 28-nm node.

Apr

Magma ranks No. 132 on the Silicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley

Magma Ranks No. 170 in Software Magazine’s 28th Annual Software 500

Mar

Magma introduces Tekton^TM, a next-generation timing analysis platform that offers significantly higher capacity and dramatically faster runtimes than traditional tools, without sacrificing accuracy. Tekton is the first static timing analysis solution to deliver fast multi-scenario analysis on a single CPU.

2009

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 158 in Software Magazine’s 27th Annual Software 500

Apr

Magma ranks No. 120 on the Silicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley.

2008

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 161 in Software Magazine’s 26th Annual Software 500

May

Magma introduces Hydra^TM, an automated floorplan synthesis and hierarchical design planning product with physical optimization capabilities that delivers superior predictability.

Apr

Magma moved up to No. 114 on the Silicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley.

Feb

Magma announces Titan™, the first full-chip mixed-signal design, analysis and verification platform. Unlike other design solutions, Titan tightly integrates mixed-signal implementation with digital implementation, circuit simulation, transistor-level extraction and verification – providing a quantum leap in efficiency and productivity for analog designers.

2007

Oct

Deloitte Technology ranks Magma among "Fast 50" fastest-growing tech companies in Silicon Valley and is also named to "Fast 500" list of fastest-growing tech companies in North America.

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 157 in Software Magazine’s 25th Annual Software 500

Apr

Magma again ranked on theSilicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley.

Mar

Magma expands to new facility in San Jose.

2006

Nov

Magma acquires Knights Technology. Combining Magma and Knights Technology products will allow tighter integration between design software and semiconductor manufacturing.

Oct

Deloitte Technology ranks Magma in Top 10 among "Fast 50" fastest-growing tech companies in Silicon Valley and is also named to "Fast 500" list of fastest-growing tech companies in North America.

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 166 in Software Magazine’s 24th Annual Software 500

Jul

Magma software integrated into TSMC Reference Flow 7.0. Provides designers a comprehensive and integrated implementation and verification flow that accounts for the complexities and interdependencies of power, timing, area and variability.

Announces FineSim Pro, a circuit simulator enabling the simulation of entire mixed-signal SoCs at the transistor level.

Jun

Quartz DRC given the Outstanding Performance Award in the Design Environment/Development Tool category at the 13th annual “LSI of the Year” awards ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.

Apr

Talus Automated Chip Creation platform announced. All-new IC implementation product line offers unequaled automation and virtually unlimited capacity while delivering improved timing, area, power, signal integrity and manufacturability.

Magma again ranked on the Silicon Valley 150, the top public companies in Silicon Valley.

2005

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 195 in Software Magazine’s 23rd Annual Software 500

Jun

Blast Fusion given the Outstanding Performance Award in the Design Environment/Development Tool category at the 12th annual “LSI of the Year” awards ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.

Magma announces Quartz DRC. The result of Magma’s acquisition of Mojave, Quartz DRC can process IC designs of any size, at any technology node, in two hours or less.

Mar

Electronic Business places Magma on list of "Best Small Electronics Companies" for third year in a row.

Feb

Forbes ranks Magma No. 2 on list of fastest-growing technology companies.

2004

Oct

Deloitte Technology ranks Magma No. 7 on "Fast 500" list of fastest-growing tech companies in North America and No. 4 among "Fast 50" fastest-growing tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Sep

Magma Ranks No. 210 in Software Magazine’s 22nd Annual Software 500

May

Magma Announces QuickRules, Integrates Gold-Standard QuickCap Technology into Blast Fusion APX to Improve the Accuracy of its Built-in Extractor.

Apr

Magma named No. 1 on Electronic Business' list of "Best Small Electronics Companies" for second year in a row.

Magma Announces Blast Power for Power Optimization and Management.

Feb

Magma to Acquire Mojave. Combining Magma and Mojave technology will allow DFM analysis and correction during implementation.

2003

Oct

Magma expands to a 130,000-square-foot facility in Santa Clara.

Magma acquires Silicon Metrics, establishes Silicon Correlation Division. Technology from this library/IP characterization company, will strengthen the correlation between EDA design tools and foundry-generated silicon.

Magma acquires Random Logic Corporation. Technology from this developer of the parasitic extraction software product QuickCap®, the industry-standard 3D field solver, will enable Magma to provide accuracy levels not available in integrated circuit (IC) design flows today.

Sep

AMCC gives Magma "Supplier of the Year" and "Innovation Award" for helping AMCC bring products to market in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Jul

Acquires Aplus Design Technologies, providing logical and physical synthesis and prototyping software solutions for programmable logic devices.

May

Blast Rail announced. Correct-by-construction rail design solution fully integrated with Magma’s RTL-to-GDSII implementation flow.

Apr

Magma named No. 1 on Electronic Business' list of "Best Small Electronics Companies."

Blast Create announced. Next-generation front-end solution that enables logic designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve the quality of their RTL code, design constraints, testability requirements floorplan and placement.

Jan

VDEC recommends Magma software to Japan universities. Magma donates 100 licenses.

2002

Dec

Blast Fusion APX announced. Offers twice the capacity, half the runtime and a 50 percent smaller memory footprint than the previous release of Blast Fusion.

Magma to distribute TSMC libraries. First EDA company to make this announcement.

Oct

New facility opened in Korea.

Sep

Magma convenes first Fusion users group meeting.

Aug

Rajeev Madhavan selected as Top Innovator by Red Herring.

Jul

Opens new facility in Taiwan.

May

Magma named to The Red Herring 100. Recognized by the Red Herring editors for innovation and business strategy.

Apr

100+ successful customer tape-outs announced.

2001

Nov

Magma IPO on Nasdaq with ticker symbol LAVA.

Jun

Blast Plan released. This hierarchical design planning product's GlassBox data reduction methodology handles large designs efficiently without sacrificing accuracy.

2000

Jun

Blast Chip and Blast Noise released. Blast Chip is the first truly integrated logic and physical design system. Its unique gain-based synthesis provides an order of magnitude improvement in gate-count capacity. Blast Noise provides the only system that can identify and correct signal integrity violations during the design flow.

Magma acquires Moscape. Technology from this leading provider of assertion-based electrical integrity solutions will form the foundation for Magma's comprehensive design, analysis and implementation solutions.

1999

Aug

Magma KK established to support growing base of Japanese customers.

Jun

Magma's DAC debut in New Orleans. 16-foot volcano and Hawaiian shirts are the talk of the show.

Apr

Blast Fusion released. The first physical design system able to accurately predict final timing prior to layout and eliminate iterations back through synthesis.

1997

Apr

Magma founded, based on the concept of combining logic and physical design into a single system to better address emerging deep submicron design challenges.

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