June 30, 2008 — Hsinchu, Taiwan — SpringSoft Incorporated has been awarded the eighth annual Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award by Synopsys, Inc. for advancing the IPL (Interoperable PDK Libraries) Alliance. SpringSoft was honored along with TSMC and Ciranova for their instrumental work alongside Synopsys in the creation and promotion of standards for Process Design Kits (PDKs) that accelerate innovation for analog and custom design.

As a founding member of the IPL Alliance, collaboration on open, standards-based PDKs is an integral element of SpringSoft’s Laker custom IC design solutions. The Laker line features unique controllable automation that allows users to craft the highest quality analog, mixed-signal and custom digital designs with less effort. The availability of interoperable PDKs will provide Laker users with more technology choices and greater productivity when implementing complex chips.

This latest award underscores SpringSoft’s unwavering commitment to standards and interoperability. The company’s track record also includes receipt of the Tenzing Norgay award in 2004 for making its Novas verification enhancement products function across a variety of advanced methodologies, tools and languages. These achievements reflect SpringSoft’s involvement in numerous industry standards initiatives such as SystemVerilog and OpenAccess, and further optimize its proven product interoperability with the most comprehensive ecosystem of third-party design and verification tools.

About the Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award
The Tenzing Norgay EDA Interoperability Achievement Award was established by Synopsys to recognize EDA providers who collaborate on interoperable design flows that benefit the user community. The award is presented annually to companies that have surpassed common levels of interoperability, have contributed to overall industry advancement and have helped provide a new view of the future for EDA interoperability. Named for the crucial role that Sherpa Tenzing Norgay played in the first successful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, the EDA Interoperability Achievement Award recognizes achievements that are critical to a designer's success.

About the IPL Alliance
The IPL Alliance was founded in April 2007 to address interoperability issues in the analog design flow. Interoperable PDK libraries work with any design tool that supports the OpenAccess database, thereby reducing PDK development and support costs, and providing designers building analog design flow options. Since its inception, the IPL Alliance has made tremendous progress in solving PDK interoperability. A free IPL reference library and an online interoperability demonstration are available for download at http://www.iplnow.com, the IPL Alliance web site.

About SpringSoft
SpringSoft is a global supplier of specialized automation technologies that accelerate engineers during the design, verification and debug of complex digital, analog and mixed-signal ICs, ASICs, microprocessors, and SoCs. Its award-winning product portfolio features the Novas verification enhancement and Laker custom IC design used by more than 400 of today's leading IDM and fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, and electronic systems OEMs. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and San Jose, California, SpringSoft is the largest, first publicly traded EDA company in Asia (2473.tw) and a recognized industry leader in customer service with more than 400 employees located in multiple R&D sites and local support offices around the world. For more information, visit www.springsoft.com.        

Related links:
. Read more about SpringSoft
http://www.springsoft.com/corporate/About.aspx
· Learn more about Novas verification enhancement solutions
http://www.novas.com/Solutions/Solutions_Overview/
· Learn more about Laker customer IC design solutions
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