BANGALORE: Semiconductor design software provdier Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced the expansion of its operations in India with the inauguration of a 40,000-square-foot facility in Bangalore.

The company expects its India headcount to cross 200 this year, according to Anand AnandKumar, managing director of Magma Design Automation Pvt. Ltd.

Magma is the only global EDA company to have a three-city R&D footprint in India. It opened a new facility in Noida in 2006 and gained a Mumbai office as part of its November acquisition of Knights Technology, the firm said in a statement.

Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and chief executive officer and Roy E. Jewell, president and chief operating officer of the company presided over the opening ceremony of the Bangalore facility. M N Vidyashankar, IT secretary, Government of Karnataka and J. Parthasarathy, director, STPI-Bangalore, as well as key customers and partners, were also present.

“Magma is focused on building on our success in chip design implementation to expand our product portfolio and address other markets, including circuit simulation and physical verification,” said Madhavan. “We are making significant investments in R&D, product engineering and applications engineering globally, and India will continue to play a significant role across these three areas.”

“The new facilities in Bangalore and Mumbai enhance further our ability to attract an increasing number of the talented engineers in India who will play a key role in developing products that fully address the RTL-to-silicon design flow and allow our users to reduce the turnaround time and costs of nanometer semiconductor design,” said Jewell. “A globally distributed product development and support network gives Magma access to talent anywhere in the world to ensure our customers’ success.”

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