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Databahn cores offer configurability to deliver optimal performance for a wide
range of end applications, and are silicon proven in more than 18 process
nodes. Forte's innovative behavioral
synthesis technology allows design teams creating complex electronic systems
from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs to significantly reduce
their overall design and verification time. More information on
Toshiba's R-Cube methodology can be found at
http://www.

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The PureSpec (TM) and MMAV(TM)
verification IP products support all standard interfaces, including DRAM,
Flash , PCI Express, ASI, AMBA, USB, Ethernet, Serial ATA, and CE-ATA.

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Madhavan will speak on "The Death of Logic Synthesis. For more information on the conference, visit
http://www. Magma provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII design
flow that includes design planning, prototyping, synthesis, place +
route , and signal and power integrity chip design capabilities in a
single executable, offering "The Fastest Path from RTL to
Silicon"(TM). To ensure compatibility with all the latest high-speed memory
technologies , the configuration process is tightly integrated with Denali's
database of memory component specifications , including all the latest SDRAM,
DDR1, DDR2, GDDR3, and Mobile DDR-SDRAM devices from all major memory vendors. Forte is headquartered at 100
Century Center Court, San Jose, CA 95112.ForteDS.

R-Cube is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation.

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PDT.2 Gigaflops
sustained LINPACK while reducing the overall power by about 10 percent
compared to running the system on its own.
Denali 's Blueprint(TM) product provides a complete solution for on-chip
register design and management.

Forte's position as the industry-leading behavioral synthesis provider,
along with their repeated production design successes at Toshiba and other
major semiconductor and systems vendors, were key factors in Toshiba's
decision to select Cynthesizer for the R-Cube design methodology.,
general manager, SoC research + development center, Semiconductor Company,
Toshiba Corporation. Our success with Cynthesizer
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Magma is also one of the corporate sponsors of the
conference. All other product
and company names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their
respective companies .

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. Databahn IP
is library independent and covers solutions from .

NOTE: Denali, the Denali logo, Blueprint, Databahn, Dataplex, PureSpec,
PureSuite and MMAV are trademarks of Denali Software Inc. "Cynthesizer is providing a tremendous competitive edge to
design teams at Toshiba by allowing them to accomplish more in less time,
while improving their quality of results.jp/eng/r_cube/.

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About Denali
Denali Software Inc.com.

For more information, please contact:
Nanette Collins Kevin Silver
Public Relations for Denali Software Inc.
"Reducing the time from algorithms to specific SoC implementations is a
critical factor for Toshiba's MeP SoC platform," said Tohru Furuyama, Ph.

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m. The conference runs from April 3 -6.

About the Conference

The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a
high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas and results in critical
areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www. Cynthesizer is currently in
production at 15 of the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies
worldwide.

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Where: Marine's Memorial Club + Hotel, 609 Sutter Street, San
Francisco. We plan to use
Databahn again in our next-generation product. Its Databahn(TM) and
Dataplex(TM) IP products provide control and optimal data throughput for
external DRAM and Flash memory devices."
"We're extremely proud of the recent success at Toshiba on such a complex
design," said Brett Cline, vice president of Forte's customer operations and
services group. Cynthesizer is silicon-proven with uncompromising
quality of results that often exceed hand-coded RTL. For more information, visit
http://www.

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newscom .
"ClearSpeed is delivering some very impressive products in terms of
enabling high-performance processing while solving the heat and power
problem," remarks Brian Gardner, vice president of IP products at Denali, who
adds that ClearSpeed's technology is amazing.09-micron
technologies, and DRAM device frequencies from 100-400MHz
(200-800MHz data rate). For more information, visit Denali at
info@denali. Denali Software Inc.com/.

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(Photo: http://www. "While our Databahn IP has been
used successfully in wide range of applications, from handsets to enterprise
servers , this is clearly one of the more interesting applications. is the world's leading provider of Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) and Intellectual Property (IP) products for design and
verification of semiconductor chip interfaces., Forte Design Systems today
announced that Toshiba Corporation has completed an advanced multimedia H.

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ADVISORY/Magma's Rajeev Madhavan to Provide Keynote Address at ISPD; ''The Death of Logic Synthesis''

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About Forte Cynthesizer
Forte's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the time needed to create
complex chips and systems by automatically generating high-quality RTL designs
from high-level algorithms.

About Forte Design Systems
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that
enable design at a higher level of abstraction.com

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What: Mr. The scope of
this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from
interactions with behavior- and logic-level synthesis, to back-end
performance analysis and verification. The symposium is sponsored by
ACM/SIGDA with technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060215/SFW029 )
"We are pleased to have chosen Denali's Databahn memory controller IP to
help us achieve the high quality DDR memory system design," says Russell
David, vice president of engineering at ClearSpeed. "There was a clean path
for configuring the Databahn IP to deliver optimal performance for the CSX600,
and we ended up with a very high-quality memory sub-system. The Advance board is targeted at
data-intensive applications in such areas as financial, life sciences,
computational chemistry, biology and computer-aided design for fluid dynamics.

Toshiba Uses Forte Cynthesizer to Accelerate Completion of H.264 Multimedia Design

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Who: Magma(R) Design Automation Inc.

Leading Acceleration Technology Company Selects Denali for Memory System Design

, Denali Software today announced
that its Databahn(TM ) memory controller intellectual property (IP) has been
licensed by ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD ) for use in acceleration
technology designs."

About Databahn
Licensed for use in more than 170 designs, and with more than 65 chips in
production, Databahn is the industry-leading memory controller IP solution.18-micron to . Each implementation was
specifically targeted for Toshiba 's SoC design process, resulting in reduced
downstream problems with logic synthesis and layout.

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Magma provides leading software for designing highly complex
integrated circuits while maximizing Quality of Results with respect
to area, timing and power, and at the same time reducing overall
design cycles and costs. Databahn Memory Controller IP Helps ClearSpeed Achieve High-Speed Data
Transfers

PALO ALTO, Calif. We are proud to have ClearSpeed as a customer. All other
trademarks are property of their respective owners.D. "Cynthesizer's ability to rapidly produce multiple high-
quality RTL implementations from a single C++ source makes it a critical
factor in our new R-Cube high-level design flow.264 design clearly demonstrates that a C -based design flow is not
only viable but fundamental as we move to 90nm and beyond.

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When: The presentation will be April 4 from 8:30 a.ispd. Delivering
this kind of performance is a testament to the quality and configurability of
our IP products.264 image processing hardware using ANSI-C ++ and
SystemC. It is the only behavioral
synthesis product that offers designers a complete environment including
synthesis, verification, and co-simulation.co.

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to 9:40 a. ClearSpeed
recently demonstrated the Advance(TM) board, (which contains two CSX600s) on a
standard system which increased the performance by 4x to 30.semicon.

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617-437-1822 +1-650-283-3488
kevin@denali. In
addition, Toshiba has selected Cynthesizer as a key product in its R-Cube(TM)
C-based methodology, developed to significantly reduce time-to-market for
Toshiba's multimedia SoC. By designing at a higher
level of abstraction and using Cynthesizer to automate the RTL implementation ,
Toshiba was able to reduce its overall design time by significantly reducing
time-to-RTL, improving verification performance, and removing downstream
synthesis and backend issues while maintaining high quality of results. This new
endorsement augments Forte's selection as a key supplier for Toshiba 's Media
embedded Processor (MeP) SoC design platform flow in 2006.

For more information , contact:

Brett Cline Gloria Nichols
Forte Design Systems Launch Marketing
978-264-1855 650-851-6919
gloria@launchm.

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Magma is a registered trademark and "The Fastest Path from RTL to
Silicon" is a trademark of Magma Design Automation. Cynthesizer is a trademark of
Forte Design Systems.

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The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol
LAVA.

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Assignment Desks/Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
ADVISORY.
International Symposium on Physical Design

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Nasdaq:LAVA ), a provider of
semiconductor design software, announced today that Rajeev
Madhavan , Magma's chairman and CEO, will give a keynote
presentation at the ACM International Symposium on Physical
Design.cc/index.

ClearSpeed engineers implemented Databahn memory
controller IP in the CSX600 coprocessor where it was configured to control the
chip's interface to 64-bit DDR2 DRAM with ECC.

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Magma's software also includes products for advanced
physical synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable
logic devices (PLDs); capacitance extraction; and characterization and
modeling."
ClearSpeed Technology is a semiconductor company focused on delivering
high-performance coprocessors and boards to be used alongside general-purpose
processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications.
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design using Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioral synthesis product. The high-level design code was then processed by Forte's Cynthesizer ,
which quickly generated multiple RTL implementations.

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Deliverables include: register transfer level (RTL) and synthesis scripts,
silicon-independent DDR PHY, verification testbench, static timing analysis
(STA) scripts, programmable register settings and documentation. Forte Named Key Supplier in Toshiba's MeP C-based Design Flow

SAN JOSE, Calif.toshiba.