Sharad Malik Joins AXYS Design's Technical Advisory Board

Business Wire, April 4, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2002

AXYS(R) Design Automation, Inc. today announced the expansion of its distinguished technical advisory board (TAB) with the appointment of Professor Sharad Malik from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Professor Malik brings a wealth of experience to AXYS Design's TAB, based on his research activities which include all aspects of electronic design automation, with special attention to the areas of design tools for embedded processors and the synthesis and verification of digital systems. Professor Malik is also a member of the executive committee of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center (GSRC), an organization involving leading US universities and performing long range, collaborative research addressing the challenges of chip design and the growing design productivity gap.

"The AXYS Design team is excited to have Professor Sharad Malik join our Technical Advisory Board where his broad knowledge and active forward thinking shall be important assets for the definition and implementation of AXYS Design's ongoing advanced research activities. He will also be actively involved in the synchronization of external research results relevant for AXYS Design. Personally, I am very happy to have the opportunity to closely work with Sharad again," said Vojin Zivojnovic, president and CEO of AXYS Design.

The mission of AXYS Design's TAB is to provide technical and strategic guidance in the context of the company's focus on advanced embedded processor and software development tools and solutions for high software content System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The chairman of AXYS Design's TAB is professor Jan Rabaey from the University of California at Berkeley and incoming director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. Other members are James Spoto, President and CEO of Applied Wave Research, Inc., and Keith Bindloss from Bindloss Consulting.

"AXYS Design is a company with deep roots in system-level EDA research and whose development from a university startup to the recognized technology leader I have followed closely. Large EDA companies are revisiting their stance towards system-level design tools, which provides opportunities for highly innovative newcomers with great technology, like AXYS Design, to take over a substantial part of this growing market. I am happy to join AXYS Design's TAB during these exciting times and look forward to contributing to the further expansion of their strong technology and pioneering research," said Sharad Malik.

About Sharad Malik

Sharad Malik is a professor at the department of electrical engineering at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. He also serves as co-leader of the MESCAL project on Fully Programmable Systems for the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. Professor Malik holds several patents in the areas of electronic design automation and is active in conferences, committees, editorial boards, panels and tutorials on the subject.

Professor Malik holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He is an IEEE Fellow and holds numerous awards in the areas of engineering research and teaching.

About AXYS Design Automation, Inc.

AXYS(R) Design Automation, Inc. is a provider of fast, accurate, and integrated processor and SoC (System-on-Chip) C/C modeling and simulation solutions for the development of high software content SoC devices. The use of AXYS Design's tool suites in the pre-silicon phase substantially shortens the SoC design cycle by enabling early system integration and embedded software development, thus reducing NRE cost and time to market.

AXYS Design's customers and partners are companies involved in cutting edge technologies for the electronics industry and include Adelante Technologies, ARM Ltd (Nasdaq:ARMHY), Conexant Systems (Nasdaq:CNXT), DSP Group (Nasdaq:DSPG), Infineon Technologies (NYSE:IFX), LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI), Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq:MENT), MIPS Technologies (Nasdaq:MIPS) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM).

The MaxSim(TM) Developer Suite is a tool enabling the modeling and verification of multi-core SoC designs. The MaxCore(TM) Developer Suite is a toolset for the automatic generation of processor models and software development tools. MaxLib(TM) is AXYS Design's growing library of models for popular SoC components. For more information, visit the AXYS Design web site at http://www.AXYSdesign.com.

AXYS is a registered trademark of AXYS Design Automation, Inc. MaxSim, MaxCore and MaxLib are trademarks of AXYS Design Automation, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner.