Nassda Participates on DesignCon 2005 Panel

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

  Who:   Nassda Corp. (NASDAQ: NSDA) announced today that Graham Bell,
         senior director of marketing, will participate as a panelist at
         DesignCon 2005.

  What:  What Is Design for Yield, and How Do We Get There?
         The time has come for IC designers to realize that their designs
         don't end successfully at tapeout and their jobs don't include only

         the design of the mask set. Panelists will debate the issues,
         define "design for yield" and discuss whose responsibility it is.

  Who:   The following are the panelists:

         Gabe Moretti       Panel Chair and Technical Director, ASIC and
                            EDA, EDN Magazine
         Graham Bell        Senior Director of Marketing, Nassda Corporation
         Jim Jordan         Vice President, Marketing and Business
                            Development, BindKey, Dupont Photomasks
         Marc Levitt        Vice President, Design-for-Manufacturing
                            Business Unit, Cadence Design Systems
         Sudhakar Sabada    Vice President Technology Group, LSI
         Richard Tobias     Vice President, ASIC and Foundry Business Unit,
                            Systems LSI Group, Toshiba America Electronic
                            Components, Inc.
         Vincent Wong       Vice President, Operations, Xilinx

         Mr. Bell joined Nassda in early 2001 from Averant, Inc. where he
         was co-founder and headed marketing. He has 20 years of EDA
         experience and has held key marketing positions at Synopsys,
         Viewlogic Systems, Avista Design Systems and MicroSim.

  When:  Santa Clara Convention Center
         Wednesday, February 2, 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
         Santa Clara, CA
         For more information please go to:
         http://www.designcon.com/index.html

  About Nassda

Nassda Corporation is a leading provider of full-chip circuit verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company develops and markets simulation and analysis solutions for advanced ICs, especially for analog, mixed signal, memory, system-on-chip and high performance digital designs. Nassda's products enable first silicon success, and improve IC quality and yield for its consumer, communication, computer and memory customers. The company has sales and distribution offices throughout the world. For more information about Nassda, please visit the company's website at http://www.nassda.com/.

CONTACT: Graham Bell of Nassda Corporation, +1-408-988-9988, or
gbell@nassda.com; or Gloria Nichols of Lee Public Relations, +1-650-363-0142,
or gloria@leepr.com, for Nassda Corporation

Web site: http://www.nassda.com/