eInfochips joins Real Intent's Verification Service Partners Program

eInfochips to Offer Verix Formal Functional Verification Services

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2002 - Real Intent, an EDA company in the assertion-based formal verification market, announced today that it has established a Verification Service Partner Program, a 3rd party program for the Company's formal functional verification service partners. eInfochips is among the first to join.

eInfochips has used Real Intent's Verix™ family of formal functional verification products and is fully trained and capable of providing Verix formal functional verification services to their customers.

According to Dr. Prakash Narain, Real Intent's President and CEO, "Assertion-based formal verification is a key component in the verification of ASIC designs. Our service program addresses the needs of our customers with a worldwide network of verification service partners, who can help them achieve better verification productivity."

"Adding Verix to our suite of verification tools greatly strengthens our verification services capabilities. As a provider for Silicon Intellectual Property and Verification IP, we have considerable experience with verifying complex ASICs, IP, Cores, system-on-chip and custom ICs and see a tremendous benefit to using Verix. It enables us to verify correct IP usage by embedding assertions within the IP," noted, Shailesh Thakkar, Project Manager at eInfochips. "This reduces our support cost and contributes to the successful deployment of our IP in customer designs. With assertion standardization, the assertions embedded in our IP can be used by a wide range of verification tools."

About eInfochips

eInfochips has a large team of engineers with a considerable amount of experience in designing and verifying complex ASICs, IP, Cores, system-on-chip and custom ICs. The team has vast exposure to EDA tools and HDL-based verification methodologies, reusable designs and Verification IP/Components. The Company delivers high-quality services that enable customers to compete effectively in their target markets and to widen their client base by dramatically reducing the time-to-verify. In addition, the engineering teams in India as well as in USA have the comprehensive knowledge of seeing a chip all the way through to tape out, help clients tightly integrate RTL/Gate level phase with place and route phase keeping in mind issues such as budgeting for timing at RTL level, keeping synthesized logic 'place & route friendly'.

eInfochips has chosen the route of partnership with cutting edge technology companies to meet the ever-emerging needs of our design and verification services customers. The eInfochips US office is located at 1628, Quail Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, Tel: 408-263- 2505. eInfochips also has a design center in India. For more information on eInfochips visit http://www.einfochips.com or write to info@einfochips.com.

About Real Intent

Real Intent, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers award-winning Verix formal functional verification products for electronic design. These products give users the capability of comprehensively verifying designs early and significantly reduce the cost of verifying integrated circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Real Intent is located at 3910 Freedom Circle, Suite 102A, Santa Clara, CA 95054, tel.: (408) 982-5444, fax: (408) 982-5443, email: info@realintent.com, web: http://www.realintent.com.