Magma History

2008	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.
	Apr	·	Magma again ranked on the Silicon 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.
	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	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.
	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. One of the best-performing IPOs of 2001.
	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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