May 6, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (NASDAQ: LAVA) (Current Market Cap: US$96.55 Mil.) reported recently that consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp. (NYSE: PC) decided to standardize on Magma’s FineSim(tm) SPICE simulator with scalable multi-CPU technology for verification of large analog IP designs.

With FineSim SPICE in the production analog design flow, Panasonic designers have access to fast, accurate, high-capacity SPICE simulation technology that enables them to verify circuit performance of designs that previously were too large and complex to simulate. The ability to accurately predict performance of these large analog designs prior to manufacturing reduces the time and effort required for IC development and fabrication.

According to Dr. Shiro Dosho, senior staff engineer at Panasonic, “With FineSim SPICE, we have seen effective speedup compared with a conventional SPICE simulator, while simulating much larger circuits never before practical in SPICE simulation — and we can verify our designs over multiple conditions.”

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Magma makes software for designing integrated circuits is used to create complex, high-performance chips required in cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, DVD/digital video, networking, automotive electronics and other electronic applications.

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