San Jose, Calif., and Palaiseau, France -- September XX, 2004 Demand for ZeBu

Hardware-Assisted Verification Platform in India Drives Move

Advanced verification specialist Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) today named D'gipro Design Automation and Marketing, Ltd., a leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, its distributor in India.

Under terms of the distribution agreement, D'gipro of Bangalore, India, will market and support EVE's ZeBu (for "zero bugs") hardware-assisted verification platform and associated software throughout India.

"We have been impressed by the reputation EVE has gained in Europe and USA in a short timeframe," says S Ramachandran, D'gipro's Managing Director. "Combining very fast execution, ease-of-use, and affordability, ZeBu will meet the growing demand for fast functional verification and embedded software development in the Indian market."
"With so much design work being done in India, the opportunity for ZeBu is growing and demand is high," says Lauro Rizzatti, vice president of marketing and general manager of EVE-USA. "D'gipro has partnered with many successful EDA firms and knows the market well.

We have every confidence that D'gipro will be an excellent partner and help make ZeBu the hardware-assisted verification platform standard in India."
About Emulation and Verification Engineering EVE offers innovative intellectual property (IP) and hardware-assisted verification solutions and verification engineering services that accelerate the design of complex integrated circuits, prevalent in the communications, wireless, networking, computer, and consumer product markets. It has offices in San Jose, Calif. Telephone: (408) 881-0440. Fax: (408) 904-5800. It also has offices in Palaiseau, France. Telephone: (33) 1 64532730. Fax: (33) 1 64532740. Email: info@eve-team.com. Web Site: http://www.eve-team.com.

D’gipro Design Automation Ltd., a leading supplier of electronic design automation tools in Bangalore has entered into a marketing and distribution alliance with UK-based Celoxica to distribute to latter’s products in the Country, an official release said.

D’gipro will market the DK1 design software range of products developed by Celoxica. This product provides a new approach to the design of electronic hardware components of leading high technology products like- programmable gate array and system-on-chip designs.

Engineers can use Handle-C, a high level language available in DK1 to write complex algorithms targeted for migration to hardware. This language is based on Ansi C which provides a tool to migrate C-like language code from C to hardware. Hence, hardware design is not limited to HDL experts, but accessible to application specialists like system architects and software engineers.

"The main object of the DK1 suite is to reduce time to produce new applications in hardware.
This product will open the silicon design industry by leveraging available software programming skills and targeting of-the-shelf silicon enabling companies to innovate new hardware designs," Suresh Potluri, Director South Asia Pacific, Celoxica said.

Celoxica provides software products, development boards, IP cores and design services that enable software engineers to rapidly design application logic for FPGA’s and programmable logic devices. The suite of products from Celoxica are compatible with IBM PC and all versions of Microsoft Windows NT.
DK1 will provide design tools like a compiler, a simulator and a debugger to design, validate, refine and implement designs based on the Handle-C language. Developers using DK1 can take advantage of prototyping boards from Celoxica.