Silicon Canvas' Laker™ Selected by Divio for its MPEG-4 and other Multimedia Chip Designs

SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 9, 2003 -- Silicon Canvas, Inc. (SCI), today announced that Divio, a Sunnyvale California based multimedia chip design company, has selected Silicon Canvas Laker for its MPEG-4, DV, MJPEG and any future multimedia chip designs. The company will use Laker in post Place & Route (P&R) to view and fix DRC and LVS violations. This will ensure design success and shorten time-to-market on very complex multimedia integrated circuits.

"As a pioneer in integrated digital video chip designs, we are constantly looking for innovative tools to enhance our design flow and to help us stay on top of the competitive curve", said Frank Lin, CAD director at Divio, "we are most impressed by Laker's ability to very efficiently handle our complex multimillion gate video chips. Laker's tight integration with the verification tool, the super fast pan & zoom display engine, and its innovative net tracer help us trace down any physical design issues quickly and apply the modification very efficiently." "Divio designs some of the world's most advanced multimedia chips. We are very pleased to be able to enhance their design flow", said Dr. Hau-Yung Chen, president at Silicon Canvas.

"Laker's high performance and optimized DB engine is a key component to handle the complex and big design efficiently. Together with many innovative and powerful editing features, Laker proves to be an indispensable post P&R tool, which can reduce iterations and shorten the time to market significantly."

About Laker:
Laker is the next generation layout system for full- and semi-custom designs. Its patented Magic Cell, Rule-Driven, and automation technology deliver six times productivity gains. With more than 400 chips taped out, Laker is a proven product for designs ranging from analog-mixed signal to multi-million gate SoC designs.

About Silicon Canvas:
Silicon Canvas is the technology leader in providing full custom layout solutions. The company develops a modern, updated, and capable custom layout tool, Laker, to address the growing needs for nanometer designs ranging from analog, mixed signal, large complex IC, ASIC, SoC, and test key designs. Silicon Canvas' custom layout solutions provide more automation and high performance capabilities to any design projects requiring the use of a more effective full custom layout solution. Customers' applications include processors, computing systems, networking, telecommunication and graphics.

Silicon Canvas, Inc. is located in San Jose, California. For more information, you can visit our website at www.sicanvas.com, send an email to info@sicanvas.com or call us at 408/392-0288.

About Divio
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Divio is a proven leader in consumer digital video and imaging technology. Divio's initial products were developed for the emerging field of desktop capture and editing. Today, Divio's products are used in cutting-edge digital consumer electronics like DVD recorders, digital still cameras, and high-quality projectors. Looking forward, Divio continues to develop standards-based digital video semiconductor products for next generation solid-state, wireless, and networked consumer electronics. More information about Divio can be accessed at www.divio.com.