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Magma Design Automation
Company typePublic
IndustrySoftware & Programming
Founded1997
HeadquartersSan Jose, California
Key people
Rajeev Madhavan, Chairman/CEO
Roy E. Jewell, President/COO
Peter S. Teshima, CFO
Revenue$178.2 million USD (FY 2007)
Number of employees
843 (March 2007)
Websitewww.magma-da.com

Magma Design Automation (NasdaqLAVA) is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, founded in 1997, located in San Jose, California. Its annual revenue is the fourth-highest among companies in the EDA industry.

Magma software is intended to reduce the time it takes engineers to design and produce complex integrated circuits, or ICs. Magma products are used in all major phases of the IC development cycle.

Magma products are intended to comprise an integrated design system for synthesis of the physical layout of ICs from their register transfer level (RTL) descriptions. Magma also offers software for managing the power consumed by ICs and for verification of chip designs.

As of 2007, Magma's major competitors are Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics.


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.
  • FineSim SPICE: Fast, highly accurate circuit simulation.


Company Facts

  • Ranked on the "Silicon Valley 150" list of top public companies, April 2007.
  • Forbes magazine ranked Magma No. 2 on list of fastest-growing technology companies.


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