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Matsushita Selects Simplex's VoltageStorm SoC for High-Performance Microprocessor Designs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and OSAKA, Japan, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Simplex Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLX) today announced that Osaka-based Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC), one of the world's leading producers of electronic and electric products, has selected Simplex's VoltageStorm(TM) SoC transistor-level power analysis product to verify the power grid integrity of its high-performance, system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Matsushita will deploy VoltageStorm SoC, the premier solution for performing high-speed, hierarchical analysis, as well as transistor-level sign-off analysis of power grid IR (voltage) drop and electromigration risk at any stage of physical design, to verify the effects of IR drop on its microprocessor cores and core-based SoC designs.

``Rapidly evolving digital consumer and wireless products require increasingly high-performance microprocessor designs. On-chip IR drop can cause significant timing problems, and can even result in a non-functional chip,'' said Hisato Yoshida, staff engineer, Microprocessor Development Center, Corporate Semiconductor Development Division, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. ``Simplex's VoltageStorm SoC will help us to understand the behavior of the current flow across our chips, and enable us to identify excessive IR drop in our microprocessor-based chip designs to ensure there won't be any timing or functionality problems.''

Until the advent of deep-submicron (DSM) process technologies, IR drop was considered a second- or third-order effect. Today's high-performance SoC designs, with their increasing chip size and number of integrated IP blocks and decreasing power supply voltages, are at increased risk for IR drop-related failures due to the unpredictable flow of power in and around embedded blocks. Accordingly, SoC designers require full-chip verification tools that rapidly identify and help resolve critical power grid issues.

Bill Baker, general manager of Simplex KK, said, ``Matsushita recognizes that IR drop is a critical issue for its advanced microprocessor-based designs. VoltageStorm SoC will enable them to understand the effects of IR drop on these high-performance SoC designs. We are very pleased to be able to provide a leading company such as Matsushita with a solution to address this important issue.''

About Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is one of the world's leading producers of electronic and electric products for consumer, business, and industrial use, which it markets around the world under the ``Panasonic,'' ``National,'' ``Technics'' and ``Quasar'' brand names. Matsushita's shares are listed outside Japan on the Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York, Pacific, and Paris stock exchanges.

About Simplex

Simplex Solutions, Inc. provides software and services for the design and verification of integrated circuits to enable its communications, computer and consumer-products customers to achieve first-time production success and rapid delivery of complex systems-on-chip. Simplex's customers use its products and services prior to manufacture to design and verify the integrated circuits to help ensure that the integrated circuits will perform as intended, taking into account the complex effects of deep-submicron semiconductor physics. Simplex can be reached at +1-408-617-6100 or on the web at www.simplex.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, information regarding the capabilities of VoltageStorm SoC to ensure Matsushita will not encounter any timing or functionality problems in its chip designs) that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the results of Simplex to differ materially from management's current expectations.

Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors including, among others: future strategic decisions made by Simplex and/or Matsushita; competitive developments; demand for advanced semiconductor chips and the verification software that supports their production; and the rapid pace of technological change in the semiconductor industry. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described in Simplex's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Simplex assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this release.

NOTE: Simplex Solutions, the Simplex logo and VoltageStorm are trademarks of Simplex Solutions. All other trademarks mentioned in this press release are the properties of their respective owners.


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