Avertec today announced its US Headquarters opening in Silicon Valley

San Jose, California - June 1, 2004 - Avertec Inc., specialist in back-end verification of complex designs, announced today the official opening of its United States headquarters located in Downtown San Jose, in the Silicon Valley. "The opening of our San Jose office is a key milestone in our Business Development plan. It provides us with the advantage of having a local presence to sales and customer support." says Karim Dioury, CEO and founder. Avertec's US team will focus on sales and applications engineering activities, research and development will remain in Europe. Avertec US Headquarters' address is: 84 West Santa Clara, Suite 830, San Jose, CA 95113. Telephone: +1-408-294-4336 Fax: +1-408-904-5388

About Avertec
Avertec is a privately held company created in 1998. Its mission is to provide solutions for the back-end verification of complex designs. The company develops and commercializes solutions for Timing, Crosstalk, Power and IR Drop analysis.

Avertec has an innovative Transistor level methodology based on proven HiTAS and YAGLE platforms. Realistic full chip validation is provided by combining Static and Dynamic analysis of an abstracted Timing and/or Functional model that is close to the physical implementation.

The company is headquartered in the Paris area, France, has a sales office in San Jose, California and represented by distributors in Japan and in Asia. Avertec is a member of the EDA Consortium. Further information at http://www.avertec.com

For more information please contact:
Rita Kupi
Marketing Assistant
Avertec Inc.
Tel: +33 1 60 92 16 32
rita.kupi@avertec.com