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Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA) is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, founded in 1997, located in Santa Clara, California. It is the fourth-largest company in the EDA industry.
Magma software enables chip designers to reduce the time it takes to design and produce complex integrated circuits, or ICs. Magma products are used in all major phases of the IC development cycle.
Magma products comprise an integrated design system for synthesis of the physical layout of ICs from their register transfer level (RTL) descriptions. Magma has also developed software for managing the power consumed by ICs and for verification of chip designs.
As of 2006, Magma's major competitors are Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics.
Magma is currently involved in patent litigation with Synopsys.
Magma Design Automation
Key Products
Company Facts
Management Team
| | Company Name | Magma Design Automation | | Company Logo | Image:MagmaDALogo.gif | | Company Type | Public company | | Foundation | 1997 | | Location | Santa Clara, California | | Key People | Rajeev Madhavan, Chairman/CEO
Roy E. Jew... | | Num Employees | 711 (September 2006) | | Industry | Software & Programming | | Revenue | $164 million United States dollar |
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Key Products
Blast Create: Logic design (synthesis).
Blast Fusion: Physical design (placement and routing).
Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS: Physical verification.
Talus: Automated IC implementation.
FineSim Pro: Circuit simulation of entire mixed-signal SoCs at the transistor level.
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Company Facts
Ranked on the "Silicon Valley 150" list of top public companies.
Forbes magazine ranked Magma No. 2 on list of fastest-growing technology companies.
One of the hightest levels of revenue/employee in EDA.
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Management Team
Rajeev Madhavan, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Roy E. Jewell, President and Chief Operating Officer
Premal Buch, GM and VP, Product Development, Design Implementation Business Unit
Kam Kittrell, GM and VP, Design Implementation Business Unit
John Lee, GM and VP, Physical Verification Business Unit
Vivek Raghavan, GM and VP, Product Development, Physical Verification Business Unit
Anirudh Devgan, GM and VP, Product Development, Custom Design Business Unit
Suk Lee, GM and VP, Custom Design Business Unit
Saeid Ghafouri, Corporate Vice President, Field Operations
David Stanley, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Peter S. Teshima, Corporate Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Milan G. Lazich, Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Camellia Ngo, Vice President, Human Resources
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