Magma congratulates winners of MUSIC India 2011 “Best Paper” awards

BANGALORE, INDIA: Magma Design Automation Inc. announced the “Best Paper” winners for MUSIC – Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits held here on September 7. Over 200 Magma users attended the annual event that featured 11 papers, a keynote by Balajee Sowrirajan, director of IC Engineering in the OMAP Business Unit at Texas Instruments, and a presentation given by Magma CEO Rajeev Madhavan.

The top award was presented to Vishweshwara Ramamurthy, Santhosh Thiyagaraja, Venkataraman R and Mahita Nagabhiru of Texas Instruments for their paper titled “Clock Tree Considerations for Improved Quality and Robustness.” Second place was awarded to Pavan Torvi, Thenappan Meyyappan, Shanti Rangaswamy, Tilak Wadhwa and Sanjay Singh of Texas Instruments for their paper titled “An Efficient Timing Closure Technique for High-Performance DSPs and Accelerators with OTB Routing in 40 nm.”

Two third-place awards were given to authors from Qualcomm and ARM. Qualcomm’s Sivakumar Jeyaprakash won for his paper titled “Characterization Cycle-Time Reduction of Complex DDR I/Os Using SiliconSmart ACE.” Kartikay Shrama, Nirav Patel, Tejas Gurjar and Prashant Lokeshwar of ARM won for their paper titled “FineSim Pro: A Fast Circuit Simulator for Efficient IP Development.”

Rajeev Madhavan, chairman and CEO of Magma Design Automation, presented a keynote highlighting the trend towards vertical integration in major product markets in which companies are aggregating silicon, services and software to gain tighter control over the quality of their electronic end products.

Greater vertical integration in electronics manufacturing requires greater silicon integration of complex analog and digital technology. He went on to explain how Magma supports this trend by providing advanced digital design, digital sign-off, analog design, analog verification and yield management capabilities that address the time-to-market, product differentiation, cost, power and performance requirements of emerging silicon devices.