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21 April 2009

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Magma Congratulates Winners of MUSIC China "Best Paper" Awards -- Prototyping, Floorplanning and Physical Implementation of Complex Chips Among Popular Topics

Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced the winners of the MUSIC China "Best Paper" awards. MUSIC (Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits) was held in Shanghai April 9.

The top paper award went to Lei Zhang of NVIDIA for his paper titled "Floorplanning a Complicated Partition with the Talus® Tcl Interface." The second place award went to Koki Tsurusaki of Renesas Technology for his paper titled "Prototyping a Large-Scale System-on-a-Chip with a Complex Floorplan and Massive Amount of Hard Macros." Third place went to Ding-shan You of the Institute of Computing Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences for his paper titled "The Physical Implementation of a Complex Switch ASIC for a High-Performance Parallel Computing System."

"Since establishing operations in China in 2002, Magma has gone from being practically unknown to being recognized as a leading EDA tool vendor in this region," said Haiwei Chen, managing director of Magma China. "To help the China IC design industry continue to mature and grow, designers must participate in forums that enable them to share expertise and gain knowledge. With an impressive number of attendees and a technically rich program, MUSIC China provided a forum that benefited Magma users and the design community."

Magma users who missed the conference can access the MUSIC papers and presentations via MOLTEN, Magma's online technical support. For more information, visit http://www.magma-da.com/MUSIC.

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