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VaST Announces CoMET 5.7; Electronic System Level Environment for Creation of Virtual System Prototypes

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 28, 2005— VaST Systems Technology Corporation today announced the release of CoMET 5.7, which adds substantial new functionality to VaST's fifth generation of electronic system level (ESL) tools. CoMET(R) is VaST's electronic system level environment for the concurrent design and development of the hardware, software, mechanical and DSP subsystems of complex SoCs and embedded systems.

With CoMET, developers create virtual system prototypes in software working from high-level specifications as early as the architectural phase. The virtual system prototype is used for architecture design and analysis. CoMET allows designers to measure and visualize the quantitative impact of architectural decisions to help select the best architecture, thus enabling an architecture-driven design methodology. The virtual system prototype becomes the golden reference model for the concurrent development of hardware and software. CoMET co-simulates with leading industry simulators, and CoMET's open architecture is designed to easily integrate into an existing tools flow.

New in CoMET 5.7:

-- Support for VaST's fastest models, built with the company's new generation of simulation technology plus integration and co-simulation with previous generations of VaST models.

-- Support for SystemC models, standalone and integrated into full platforms.

-- Enhanced GUI interface and configuration capabilities in VaST's popular Metrix tool, which captures data from the virtual system prototype, performs quantitative assessments of behavior and performance, and charts the results. Metrix 5.7 supports probes for VaST's powerful technologies: StdBus, StdLogic, StdVector and StdClock nets.

-- Enhanced CoMET Platform Constructor Tool with capabilities for rapidly constructing and automatically generating documentation for virtual system prototypes.

-- The newly announced tool, Peripheral Device Builder, which enables users to quickly develop peripheral devices such as interrupt controllers, DMA engines, timers, clocks and memory controllers and operates as plug-in to the CoMET 5.7 environment.

"The new features and functions in CoMET 5.7 were driven by our key users," commented Alain Labat, VaST's CEO. "We have the fastest simulation and most advanced modeling methodology available on the market today. We are putting great emphasis on making our tools increasingly easy to use and rich in their ability to provide unparalleled visibility for designing and optimizing architectures, for concurrently developing hardware and software, and for verifying integrated systems."

CoMET 5.7 is currently being used by early adopters and is available for general release March 31, 2005 with pricing starting at $30,000, one year, node locked, time based license (TBL).

About VaST

VaST Systems Technology Corporation provides tools and models for electronic system level (ESL), system-on-chip (SoC), and real-time embedded software development. VaST's solutions enable architectural-driven design, allowing users to create a virtual system prototype in software that becomes the golden reference model for the true concurrent development of hardware and software. VaST's products deliver both high speed and cycle-accuracy under actual real-time software loads, dramatically improving time to market and quality, and reducing development costs and risk.

Current customers include worldwide leaders in semiconductors, automotive electronics, wireless devices, and consumer electronics. VaST is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.vastsystems.com.



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