SAN JOSE, Calif. - February 13, 2006 - Silicon Canvas, Inc. (SCI), today announced that Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics (Silan), which specializes in Integrated Circuit design, development, and manufacturing, has selected Silicon Canvas' Laker Layout tool and has since enjoyed more than 50% improvement in its total IC layout time.

"We are pleased to develop our relationship with Silicon Canvas," said Weiquan Song, CTO for Silan. "Laker's Magic Cell and Rule-Driven reduce most of DRC and LVS errors we have been facing. The combination of Cross-Probing, Flight Line, Point to Point Router and Net Router accelerate wire connection time from days to hours. It is quite impressive."

Laker provides the total solution for full-custom layout projects, which has proven by many customers to be able to produce handcrafted layout quality in less than 50% of the time compared to other approaches. "We are very exciting to have Silan as our customer and are very glad that Silan can benefit from great Laker features to improve its layout time and quality." said Hau-Yung Chen, President of Silicon Canvas, "Laker solution proves that it can help our customer compete and win in this very competitive world and we are looking forward to the long term business relationship with Silan."

About Laker
The Laker Design Solutions address the needs of today's and tomorrow's analog, mixed signal and large, complex IC, ASIC, and SoC designs. Laker has long been a recognized reference standard for full custom layout solutions, with more than 200 companies worldwide using it to deliver more than 2,000 successful chip tapeouts.

Built-in Controllable Automation Technology on top of a unified database system delivers a streamlined design work flow, from schematic to layout realization. Its patented Magic Cell, Rule-Driven, and Controllable Automation Technology conservatively deliver 6X productivity gains over existing methodologies.

About Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Joint-stock Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Joint-stock Co., Ltd. (Silan), formerly known as Hangzhou Silan Electronics Co., Ltd., was founded by a group of technological entrepreneurs in September 1997. It specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing the Integrated Circuit products. Silan's capital at registration was 3.5 million RMB, and had grown up to 15 million RMB in April 2000.

In September 2000, approved by the Zhejiang Province Government, Hangzhou Silan Electronics Co., Ltd. was renamed to Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Joint-stock Co., Ltd. which currently has a total capital 75,020,000 RMB. For more information, please visit http://www.silan.com.cn/.

About Silicon Canvas
Silicon Canvas, Inc. a privately held California corporation was founded in 2001 by Dr. Hau-Yung Chen and other EDA veterans with combined 50+ years of custom design and EDA experiences. Silicon Canvas is the technology leader for full custom design solutions. The company develops the Laker suite of tools - a completely new technology founded on best practices in computer software engineering with a clear focus on nanometer design requirements for analog, mixed signal, large complex IC's, ASSP, SoC, test key designs and flat panel layout. Silicon Canvas' toolsets bring more automation and higher performance capabilities to any design project which requires a more effective full custom layout solution. Customer applications include processors, computing systems, networking, telecommunication, and graphics ICs.

Silicon Canvas, Inc. is located in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit our website at www.sicanvas.com, send an email to Email Contact or contact:


Hau Yung Chen
Silicon Canvas, Inc.
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