ProDesign Presents New CHIPit ASIC Prototyping Product Family at 43rd DAC

Business Wire, July 19, 2006

MUNICH, Germany & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- ProDesign, leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC verification platforms, will introduce for the first time to the public two new CHIPit platforms -- the CHIPit Iridium Edition and CHIPit Copper Edition -- at booth #3020 during the 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) July 24-27. The new members of the CHIPit product family were specially developed for ASIC designers of small and medium ASIC design sizes and offer unprecedented speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance and to debug their designs. The systems concentrate on customers who need a flexible and very cost-effective high-speed verification solution. It is mainly used for the pre-silicon software- and firmware development, where several systems are needed to work in parallel.

For the most complex applications, ProDesign will also demonstrate its flagship, product the CHIPit Platinum Edition V4. ProDesign's CHIPit family grows with your needs for increasing complexity from 2 up to 20M ASIC gates for FPGA based high-speed ASIC/ SoC prototyping.

Fraunhofer IIS, will hold a daily demonstration on using CHIPit for digital broadcasting. The demonstration will be held daily at 11:00am and 2:00pm in the demo suite at booth #3020. If you are interested in a demonstration of the CHIPit Platinum Edition V4 or the user presentation, please register as soon as possible with Janet Ventura at (408) 441-7880 or via email at janet.ventura@prodesign-usa.com.

About ProDesign

The privately held company was founded in 1981 and has over 80 employees, with various facilities for research, design, and sales in Germany, France and the U.S. ProDesign has more than twenty-four years of experience as a service provider and manufacturer in the electronics industry. The company's products and services include the CHIPit family of hardware-assisted verification tools to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation, and assist in hardware/software co-development and co-verification to reduce the verification time dramatically.

For more information about the company's prototyping products, please visit: http://www.uchipit.com.

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