Proven and pre-packaged methodologies accelerate adoption of Early Design Closure® solutions

ANAHEIM, Calif., June 9, 2008 - Atrenta Inc., the leading provider of Early Design Closure® solutions to radically improve design efficiency throughout the IC design flow, today unveiled GuideWare™  pre-packaged methodologies at the 45th Design Automation Conference.

Early Design Closure solutions from Atrenta allow design capture, verification, optimization and exploration early in the design flow at the register transfer language (RTL) stage, when it's faster and easier to correct problems and explore alternatives.  This approach facilitates propagation of design efficiencies to detailed, back-end implementation, with minimized schedule risk.

GuideWare consists of a robust library of pre-packaged methodologies that integrate all aspects of Atrenta's industry standard SpyGlass® platform.  Methodologies are tuned for new RTL creation, IP reuse and system on chip integration.

"GuideWare methodologies have allowed us to develop a broad deployment strategy for Atrenta's SpyGlass products," said Anil Mankar, senior vice president worldwide core engineering and chief development  officer at Conexant Systems Inc.  "With GuideWare, we can proliferate Atrenta's tools quickly and bring the benefits of Early Design Closure to a broader group of users."

Atrenta's GuideWare methodologies leverage many years of joint customer development across thousands of analysis and optimization techniques.  The methodologies embodied in GuideWare have been tuned for high impact results and low noise, resulting in a very efficient and reliable path to Early Design Closure.

"IPextreme's business is to partner with the world's leading semiconductor companies to commercialize their internal IP for broad external licensing.  That model demands a focus on quality, completeness and ease of use to ensure our customers are successful," said Pierre-Xavier Thomas, vice president of engineering at IPextreme. "We have standardized on Atrenta's GuideWare pre-packaged methodologies to deploy a broad IP inspection and quality initiative at IPextreme. Using GuideWare, we can access the technologies for RTL design, design constraints, clock domain crossing, design for testability and low power that are part of Atrenta's SpyGlass platform. SpyGlass provides our engineers with a fully integrated and productive cockpit to efficiently highlight quality issues with incoming IP and address them up-front before they creep into later stages of design. Furthermore we have started packaging SpyGlass setup and waiver files as part of our IP deliverables for the purposes of communicating design intent to our common customers."

"GuideWare will enable our customers to achieve quick benefits with Atrenta's Early Design Closure solutions," said Dr. Ajoy Bose, chairman, president and CEO of Atrenta. "With a small amount of effort, our customers can now begin enjoying optimized design performance, improved schedule predictability and reduced design risk."

GuideWare is available immediately as a no-cost addition for existing SpyGlass customers. 

About Atrenta
Atrenta is the leading provider of Early Design Closure® solutions to radically improve design efficiency throughout the IC design flow. Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and methodologies to capture design intent, explore implementation alternatives, validate RTL and optimize designs early, before expensive and time-consuming detailed implementation. With over 140 customers, including the world's top 10 semiconductor companies, Atrenta provides the most comprehensive solution in the industry for Early Design Closure. For more information, visit www.atrenta.com. Atrenta, Right from the Start!

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Krishna Uppuluri, Corporate Marketing
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Email: krish@atrenta.com