Magma buys analog IP provider
The acquisition of Sabio Labs comes almost a year after Magma settled its long-running litigation with its competitor Synopsys.
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- EDN, February 28, 2008
Magma Design Automation Inc has acquired Sabio Labs, an analog IP process migration specialist, for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition comes almost a year after Magma settled its litigation with its competitor Synopsys Inc in March 2007. That settlement saw Magma pay Synopsys $12.5 million, but also freed the smaller company’s resources from the long-running legal battle, allowing it to refocus on technology and strategic growth.
Sabio Labs’ technology will be incorporated into Magma’s Titan mixed-signal design platform, the EDA company said. Magma describes the Titan platform as one that will provide an environment where not-full-custom analog design can proceed in parallel with digital design, merging during the physical design back-end and working from a unified database. Meanwhile, Sabio’s design approach targets re-usable designs that cut back on the need to run thousands of simulations, Magma said.
“The acquisition of Sabio Labs is another example of Magma’s ongoing strategy of acquiring leading-edge technology at an early point in the product lifecycle,” said Suk Lee, general manager of Magma’s custom design business unit, in a statement Wednesday. “This enables further enhancement and integration within Magma’s overall technology framework.”
Magma further offered customer support of Sabio Labs’ technology in its statement.
"We are using Sabio to migrate our analog IP to 45 nm," Shiro Dosho, manager of the circuit design team at the strategic semiconductor development center at Matsushita Electric Industrial, said. "Sabio's technology allowed us to cut the power consumption of our designs by 50 percent without sacrificing any other performance metric. Sabio's technology significantly reduces analog IP process migration time and it has become a key part of our analog design environment."
