Apache Achieves Record Sales for the Nineteenth Consecutive Quarter

Business Wire, Oct 25, 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power sign-off and silicon integrity, today announced that the company has achieved its 19th consecutive quarter of record sales, while maintaining profitability. Sales growth consists of a healthy mix of RedHawk SoC and mixed-signal dynamic power and Sentinel chip-package and I/O integrity solutions. In addition, the company signed a four-year agreement that includes the full spectrum of Apache product lines with one of the top five fabless semiconductor companies.

"Power and noise are clearly a system-wide challenge. The rapid adoption of our new Sentinel product demonstrates that we are addressing the critical need of chip-package-system co-design," said Craig Shirley, vice president of sales at Apache. "Adding the success of Sentinel to the widespread adoption of RedHawk strengthens our business growth."

"Achieving nineteen consecutive quarters of record sales signifies Apache's solid business execution," said Andrew Yang, CEO of Apache. "We are committed to continue delivering innovative technologies required for our customers to manage power and noise challenges for 65/45nm migrations."

About RedHawk

RedHawk is a full-chip Vectorless Dynamic[TM] power integrity solution for power closure sign-off of nanometer SoC designs. Correlated with silicon measurements and SPICE, RedHawk addresses dynamic power issues such as simultaneous switching output (SSO) for core, memory, clock, and I/O, as well as effects of on-chip inductance, package RLC, and decoupling capacitance. With RedHawk, designers can identify dynamic "hot spots," examine its impact on timing, accurately pinpoint the cause of dynamic voltage drop, and automatically repair the source of supply noise. RedHawk enables designers to reach power closure sign-off for high performance SoCs, including those utilizing ultra-low-power design techniques such as MTCMOS (power-gating), substrate back-biasing, and on-chip LDO voltage regulators.

About Sentinel

Sentinel is the industry's first combined chip-package-board power and I/O integrity solution. It combines a chip's core switching power delivery network, I/O sub-system, and package/PCB models in a single environment for accurate IC-Package co-design from early prototyping to sign-off. Sentinel includes a compact, Spice-compatible chip power model (CPM) including LC resonance along with high capacity I/O-SSO (SSO) solutions for optimal pad/package selection and electro-magnetic interference (EMI) for EMI noise source modeling.

About Apache Design Solutions

Apache delivers the leading power sign-off solution adopted by 80% of top IDMs, fabless semiconductor companies, and foundries, and a complete platform solution for silicon integrity of SoC, analog IP, and system designs. Apache's innovative platform considers all sources of noise that impact the design - such as power, signal, package/system IO, substrate, and temperature. Apache's silicon integrity platform enables designers of leading networking, wireless, communication, consumer, and semiconductor companies to detect, fix, and prevent design weaknesses that can result in reduced yield and failed silicon or system. Apache's vendor-neutral solutions enable designers to adopt any industry-standard physical design flow and are certified by TSMC's Reference Flows (NYSE:TSM). For more information, visit www.apache-da.com.

Apache Design Solutions, NSPICE, RedHawk, PsiWinder, Sahara, Sentinel, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.