Virage Logic To Deploy Giga Scale IC's New Silicon Virtual Model Software

This move is designed to improve Virage Logic's selling model by enabling its sales force to advise customers early in the design process. Virage Logic is the first IP vendor to move beyond showcasing the benefits of its memory, logic and I/O products to actually helping its customers evaluate the various tradeoffs and selecting the IP that best meets their speed, power, area and cost specifications.

"Using Time Architect, our sales team will be able to help customers estimate their entire chip and the overall benefits of Virage Logic's semiconductor IP platform offering in the context of a full system-on-chip design," notes Raj Singh, vice president of sales at Virage Logic. "In addition, Time Architect can be used to determine how to best leverage Virage Logic's Self-Test and Repair (STAR) Memory System™ to dramatically increase yield, saving millions over a production run of a sophisticated consumer electronics chip. Customers can then decide which memories and libraries provide the best economic value."

Virage Logic's sales and applications engineering groups will learn how to use Time Architect through automated, online training available from Giga Scale IC. Giga Scale IC also provides technical support during sales engagements.

Additionally, Giga Scale IC will sell full Time Architect models of Virage Logic's semiconductor IP platforms with Time Architect to Virage Logic licensees. These models will be bundled together with additional IP and the Time Architect software.

About Time Architect
Time Architect is a new class of electronic design automation (EDA) software. It utilizes a Silicon Virtual Model™ for fast, accurate estimation of chip size, power, cost and yield, and provides data to other EDA software to complete IC design. It allows electronic specification development for complex system-on-chips (SoCs) with full knowledge of the IC supply chain of libraries, memories and semiconductor IP.

Time Architect comes bundled with an extensive library of semiconductor IP and semiconductor process data and is used to make decisions regarding process technology andIP selection so that cost, size, speed and power requirements can be met. It obsoletes traditional IC-estimation methods that have evolved from pencil and paper to spreadsheet.

"Virage Logic's selection of Time Architect validates that early estimation is a critical component of SoC design and IP selection," notes J. George Janac, Giga Scale IC founder, CEO and chairman. "It also showcases another application for Time Architect which is sales force automation as a means to improve the productivity of the channel."

About Giga Scale IC
Founded in 2003, Giga Scale Integration Corporation -- or Giga Scale IC™ -- is a private Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company based in Cupertino, Calif. Its products are used to create a Virtual Silicon Model of an IC that can be used across the semiconductor supply chain to make tradeoffs and decisions that simultaneously impact technical specifications and financial performance. Giga Scale IC corporate headquarters are located at: 10050 North Wolfe Road, Suite SW1-266, Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Telephone: (408) 255-0444. Facsimile: (408) 255-0344. Email: info@gigaic.com. Web Site: http://www.gigaic.com

For more information, contact:
Nanette Collins
Public Relations for Giga Scale Integration Corporation
(617) 437-1822
nanette@nvc.com

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