Get2Chip Opens Technical Support Office in India to Support Its Growing Worldwide User Base; Record breaking year includes several 50 million-gate designs

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2003--Responding to strong worldwide adoption of its synthesis tool, Get2Chip, Inc., a provider of high performance system on chip (SoC) synthesis, today announced that it has opened a technical support office in Bangalore, India to field its new Technology Circle (T-Circle) program. Designed to provide 24x7 technical coverage and support for its fast growing worldwide customer community, the T-Circle program is an initiative that will leverage the high quality engineering talent pool available in India and the time difference between the US and Asia. The T-Circle team will provide technical support for customers in Asia and back-office support for application resource teams in the US, as well as programs to facilitate exchange of information among the Get2Chip user community.

Support Team to Grow to 150 In Two Years

"By the end of March we will have 12 support personnel in the Bangalore office with plans to expand to 150 by 2005 to support a projected 5000 users among our customer base" said Taher Abbasi, director of Get2Chip's Technical Support Group. "The T-Circle program targets design teams working on very complex, high-speed designs larger than 10 million gates," said Abbasi.

T-Circle Supports Get2Chip's Record Growth and Bleeding Edge

Designs

"2002 was a record year for Get2Chip," said Bernd U. Braune, chairman and CEO of Get2Chip, Inc. "Our software is getting worldwide traction and was used in over 130 design completions with an average complexity of 3 million gates. Our new T-Circle program is a logical step in supporting our growing market share."

About Get2Chip

Get2Chip, Inc., is a leading supplier of software products that enable the design of the world's most complex integrated circuits (ICs), primarily found in the communications, wireless, computer, and consumer product markets. It was launched in 2000 by semiconductor veterans and chip design tool experts from Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI), Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT), Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS) and VLSI Technology -- now part of Philips Semiconductors (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI).

Its breakthrough front-end tool suite provides fully integrated, multi-level synthesis that offers the flexibility to do chip design at the architectural, register transfer (RTL) or gate level. Get2Chip's products run on Sun and Hewlett Packard, and PC under Linux. Get2Chip is privately held and has development centers in San Jose, Calif., and Munich, Germany. Corporate headquarters: 2107 North First Street, Suite 350, San Jose, Calif. 95131. Telephone: 408/501-9600. Facsimile: 408/501-9610. Email: info@get2chip.com. Web Site: http://www.get2chip.com.

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