----FishTail Design
Automation, the golden timing constraints company, announced today
that it has been issued patent 6,877,139 by the United States Patent
Office.

About FishTail Design Automation

Founded in 2002, FishTail Design Automation has set its sights on
tackling the difficult problem of precise constraints on chip
timing -- the area where the success or failure of a design is
ultimately determined.

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FishTail Granted Patent for the Automatic Generation of Timing Exceptions from Synthesizable RTL

The Kanellakis Award honors specific theoretical
accomplishments that significantly affect the practice of computing.M.

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The Newell Award recognizes career contributions that
have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science
and other disciplines. They also serve to illustrate the integral role for
computer science skills in disparate callings like Internet traffic, network
programming, architecture and poetry," he noted.

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This year 's winners represent innovative research teams and new
luminaries as well as renaissance thinkers in the computing field.
-- Secure Network Programming -- the Software System Award for SNP, the
software system widely used in securing communications between browsers
and servers and other Internet applications. The Software System Award is given to an
institution or individual (s) recognized for developing software systems
that have had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to
concepts and/or commercial acceptance. Turing Award, these contributions all
recognize ground breaking innovations that influence how we communicate
through the Internet .

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This award
carries a prize of $10,000. This endowed award is accompanied by a
prize of $10,000 , and is supported by the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, and by individual contributions .

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fishtail-da.net as a self-creating and self-governed web
place where communities join to build a city of diverse interests
engaged in using the Java language and technology in routine and
innovative ways. Financial support for the award is provided by
IBM.

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Previous approaches have attempted to identify false paths at the
gate-level and have inevitably run into computational limits.

About the Awards
Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young computer
professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major
technical or service contribution.
Software System Award honors an institution or individual(s) recognized
for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected
in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both.
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for
career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge
computer science and other disciplines.

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ACM will
present these and other awards at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 11,
2005 , in San Francisco, CA. Financial support for this award is provided
by Google.

About ACM
ACM (http://www.

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About Focus

FishTail's Focus(TM) product solves the time-consuming problem of
poor chip-implementation results because of missing or incorrect
timing exceptions by formally identifying false and multi-cycle paths
early in the design cycle -- before virtual prototyping and logic
synthesis.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for
computing professionals , delivering resources that advance the computing and
IT disciplines, enable professional development , and promote policies and
research that benefit society.

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The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the
qualifying contribution was made. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading
Digital Library and Portal to Computing Literature, and serves its global
membership with journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences,
workshops, electronic forums, Career Resource Centre and Professional
Development Centre.

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"The patent that has been awarded to us confirms what our
customers acknowledged when we launched the Focus product early last
year -- that we have achieved a fundamental technical breakthrough in
the EDA industry," said Ajay Daga, founder and CEO at FishTail Design
Automation."
Customer data on the impact of Focus generated timing exceptions may
be viewed at FishTail's website.
The Hopper Award recognizes the outstanding young computer professional
of the year.

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The awards reflect outstanding achievements
ranging from improving Internet communications to innovative programming
language and software designs to creative applications of computer science in
the fine arts. This award is accompanied by a prize of
$15,000. This award is accompanied by a prize of $5,000 and is
endowed by contributions from the Kanellakis family, with additional financial
support provided by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and
Computational Theory (SIGACT), Design Automaton (SIGDA), Management of Data
(SIGMOD), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), the ACM SIG Projects Fund, and
individual contributions .

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The new patent, titled "Automated approach to constraint
generation in IC design," encompasses the ability to generate timing
exceptions (false paths and multi-cycle paths) from synthesizable
design descriptions.

"These awards highlight the essential role of computing in today's
technology -driven world," said ACM President David Patterson.

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Functional
abstraction ensures that the downstream formal analysis of the design
to identify false and multi-cycle paths is fast and memory efficient . The company's patent-pending technology
improves chip implementation by automatically identifying exceptions
to single-cycle clocking from RTL descriptions.com

NEW YORK, ACM, the Association for Computing
Machinery, today announced the winners of four prestigious awards honoring
advances in computing technology.

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"We are the only game in town when it comes to a
production -ready tool for the generation of timing exceptions on
multi-million gate designs. FishTail is privately
funded.

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Developed by Raghuram
Bindignavle, Simon Lam, Shaowen Su, and Thomas Woo in 1993 , while at
the University of Texas at Austin Networking Research Laboratory, this
work was funded by the National Security Agency and the National
Science Foundation.
-- Richard Gabriel of Sun Microsystems -- the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award
for his role in shaping the growth and impact of object technology, and
his influence in developing a software design community that cares
about clear communication of ideas.acm.

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The
fundamental innovation that FishTail has brought to the marketplace is
the ability to quickly discover false and multi-cycle paths on large
and complex designs by examining their RTL descriptions. Using only
the synthesizable description and clock definitions, Focus
automatically generates the timing exceptions for the design in
standard SDC file format for use by downstream implementation tools.

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Our products are being used worldwide with
great success by major semiconductor and networking companies. In addition , Focus also generates assertions that justify
why a false-path or multi-cycle path definition is correct. For more information about FishTail and Focus, please visit
the company's website at www .

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While the
patent is not limited to a specific approach to timing exception
generation, the Focus (TM) product from FishTail automatically
identifies the control logic on a design and performs a functional
abstraction of the non-control portions of a design.
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific theoretical
accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the
practice of computing.

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recently announced winners of ACM's A.

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ACM Awards Honor Advances in Internet Programming Software Technology

The 2004 ACM awards winners include:

-- Jennifer Rexford of Princeton University -- the Grace Murray Hopper
Award for her work on assuring stable and efficient Internet routing.
-- Yoav Freund of Columbia University and Robert Schapire of Princeton
University -- the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for their
contribution to highly accurate prediction rules used in web search
engines.