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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley Research, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SVRI; ``SVR or the ''Company``), a leading provider of affordable IC place and route products, announced that it has partnered with Prolific, Inc. By working more closely together, the two companies will be able to provide a more tightly integrated flow between Prolific's popular ProGenesis cell creation products and SVR's latest place and route offering, QICAPR.

QICAPR is a production-proven, fast, high capacity (over 1 million gates) place and route system for cell-based designs using subwavelength technology. QICAPR provides a highly automated layout process with full timing control. QICAPR's ability to control route direction, width, spacing, order, and metal layers makes it uniquely suited for the demands of Gigahertz designs where signal integrity issues dominate. QICAPR provides excellent integration of third-party tools by directly accepting formats such as LEF/DEF, Verilog and PDEF.

Prolific's standard-cell creation methodology allows development of usable layout even when it is known that the design rules will change later. This is because the final design rules are processed automatically without compromising the validity of the existing layout. This enables designers to consider the architectural impact of different design styles by running characterization or place and route tests on the cells created with early versions of the design rules. This eases resource limitations, improves library intelligence and shortens time-to-market. Furthermore, the ProGenesis approach, which combines synthesis, generation, and compaction, ensures design optimization, improving performance, area, and power consumption.

``Dynamically created cell libraries using automatic cell generation techniques are quickly becoming the standard flow for many place and route customers,'' said James Benouis, president and CEO of SVR. ``This new partnership will allow SVR to add seamless support for Prolific generated cell libraries into DCP, adding even more value and ease of use for QICAPR customers.''

``Our goal for this partnership is to deliver an integrated solution for optimized place and route,'' explained Dan Nenni, Prolific's vice president of marketing. ``This is also an opportunity to expand our offering of real-life solutions for timing closure, which is critical to integrated circuit manufacturers and has become a significant focus of the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.''

About Prolific, Inc.

Founded in 1995, Prolific Inc. develops the leading software for automatically creating standard cells without giving up custom design styles. Prolific's ProGenesis(TM) suite allows designers to create optimized standard-cell libraries using design-specific information contained in a SPICE netlist, process-specific information defined in design rules, and designer-specific options specified in the cell template. As a result, designers have the ability to quickly and accurately create standard cell libraries. The Prolific Liquid Cell(TM) integrates the creation of standard cell libraries into the mainstream EDA flow. This enables design-specific standard cells to be created on the fly during the synthesis/place & route phase of the EDA design flow. Prolific is headquartered in Newark, Calif., at 39899 Balentine Dr., Suite 380, Newark, CA 94560, telephone 510-252-0490, fax 510-252-0491. For more information, visit www.prolificinc.com.

About Silicon Valley Research, Inc.

Founded in 1979, Silicon Valley Research, Inc. develops, markets and supports innovative IC physical design software for floorplanning, placement, routing, custom layout and parasitic extraction of deep submicron Integrated Circuits (ICs). SVR's products are used by integrated circuit vendors, integrated circuit manufacturers, large electronic systems manufacturers and major aerospace, automotive and consumer electronics companies to create the physical design of their ICs. SVR also provides design consulting services and support to its customers. The advanced technology in SVR's production-proven tools results in dense, high yielding, high performance chips. Headquartered in San Jose, California, SVR has sales representatives in the United States. In addition to the traditional up-front licensing sales model, SVR distributes its products over the Internet through e*ECAD (www.eecad.com) on a pay-per-use basis. Information on potential factors, which may affect the Company's financial results, are included in the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB.

The preceding paragraphs include forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty, and actual results of the Company could vary materially from the forward-looking statements as a result of factors including, without limitation, liquidity and capital resources, new products and rapid technological change, dependence on certain customers and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results and lengthy sales cycles. Further information on potential factors which may affect the Company's financial results is included in the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB. (For additional information, visit SVR's Web site, http://www.svri.com)