Toshiba standardized on Magma's physical verification products after validating their accuracy on 32-nanometer designs. Quartz DRC's and Quartz LVS's advanced features were shown to improve the yield and reliability of Toshiba's flash memory designs.

Traditional DRC and LVS tools analyze only physical behavior, an approach that either introduces undue conservatism or fails to identify effects that affect product reliability. At advanced process nodes, analysis of electrical behavior is also required. Magma's Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are the first tools to provide both physical and electrical analysis.

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"Toshiba is dedicated to providing customers with the most value for their budget," said Ted Nemetz, VP, Service Business Unit, Toshiba. "The Aquilion Assurance Program does just that - allows customers to acquire the service and performance Toshiba is known for, at a price that meets their facility's needs."

A refurbished CT system from Toshiba is held to the same quality and performance standards as a brand-new Toshiba CT system. Previously owned Toshiba CT systems are inspected at the Quality Assurance Center, where a team of experts evaluate and test all moving parts and programs. After the system has been inspected, new parts are installed and upgraded, including crucial items like the X-ray tube, and new software is installed. The system is then repainted, relabeled and placed in new packaging. Before a system leaves the Quality Assurance Center, it is tested against Toshiba's original factory standards.

According to Toshiba, the Aquilion Assurance Program is for health care facilities looking to acquire diagnostic imaging equipment, but may not have the capital to purchase a brand-new system. Existing customers can trade in an Aquilion 8-, 16-, 32- or 64-detector row system for credit towards a refurbished CT system. Customers also have the option to acquire a new Service contract with the purchase of a refurbished CT system.

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"We've been using Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS on our system LSI designs for over two years, and they have proven to provide the high-capacity, high-speed and highly reliable physical verification we require," said Masaki Momodomi, Technology Executive for Memory of Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "Through joint work to validate these tools, we are now using it for both static and dynamic physical verification to increase product reliability and decrease project cycles of our 32-nm flash memory designs."

"Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS offer significantly faster turnaround time while providing full compatibility with legacy industry tools," said Anirudh Devgan, general manager of Magma's Custom Design Business Unit. "By combining these tools with the FineSim(TM) circuit simulator, Magma offers an innovative solution for advanced process designs. Toshiba's decision to expand the use of Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS to its flash memory products highlights the Magma products' unique abilities to address the verification challenges of 32-nm designs."

Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS: Fast, Accurate, Fully Scalable Physical Verification

Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are architected to process integrated circuit (IC) designs of any size, at any technology node, in the least amount of time. Magma's is the first truly scalable physical verification solution, able to provide turnaround time that is up to an order of magnitude faster than existing solutions while using existing compute resources. Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS are fully compatible with third-party IC implementation flows and can read file formats used by traditional physical verification tools.

About Magma

Magma's electronic design automation (EDA) software provides the "Fastest Path to Silicon"(TM) and enables the world's top chip companies to create high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) for cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, digital video, networking and other electronic applications. Magma products are used in IC implementation, analog/mixed-signal design, analysis, physical verification, circuit simulation and characterization. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Magma's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Follow Magma on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MagmaEDA and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Magma. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.

Magma is a registered trademark, and FineSim, "Fastest Path to Silicon" and Quartz are trademarks of Magma Design Automation Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Forward-looking Statements:

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements about Quartz DRC's and Quartz LVS's abilities to verify designs in a few hours; Toshiba's intent to use the software for flash memory designs; and statements about the features and benefits of Magma's software are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including but not limited to the ability of Magma's products to produce the desired results, the company's ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and Toshiba and Magma's decisions to continue working together. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). The companies undertake no additional obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT:  Magma Design Automation Inc.
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"Toshiba is dedicated to providing customers with the most value for their budget," said Ted Nemetz, VP, Service Business Unit, Toshiba. "The Aquilion Assurance Program does just that - allows customers to acquire the service and performance Toshiba is known for, at a price that meets their facility's needs."

A refurbished CT system from Toshiba is held to the same quality and performance standards as a brand-new Toshiba CT system. Previously owned Toshiba CT systems are inspected at the Quality Assurance Center, where a team of experts evaluate and test all moving parts and programs. After the system has been inspected, new parts are installed and upgraded, including crucial items like the X-ray tube, and new software is installed. The system is then repainted, relabeled and placed in new packaging. Before a system leaves the Quality Assurance Center, it is tested against Toshiba's original factory standards.

According to Toshiba, the Aquilion Assurance Program is for health care facilities looking to acquire diagnostic imaging equipment, but may not have the capital to purchase a brand-new system. Existing customers can trade in an Aquilion 8-, 16-, 32- or 64-detector row system for credit towards a refurbished CT system. Customers also have the option to acquire a new Service contract with the purchase of a refurbished CT system.

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