Austin, Texas, February 17, 2010 – Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced that Mephisto Design Automation (MDA), a leading EDA tool innovator in the space of analog, mixed-signal and custom-digital design, has joined Si2 and its OpenAccess Coalition (OAC).

 “It is MDA’s policy to provide our customers with innovative solutions based on open standards and tools,” stated Kenneth Francken, CEO of MDA. “Interoperability is a key issue, especially in mixed-vendor tool flows. By contributing to OpenAccess, MDA is able to provide an efficient and performant technical solution to the current and future interoperability requirements of its customers.”

MDA's primary product, M-DESIGN™, is a flexible and advanced analog and mixed-signal design platform for setting up and executing (complex) interactive simulations, verifications, optimizations and process migrations.

“We are very pleased to welcome MDA into Si2 and the OpenAccess Coalition, joining other industry leaders to provide true interoperability in EDA design flows,” said Steve Schulz, president and CEO, Si2.  “The OpenAccess Coalition is entering an exciting year where we anticipate upcoming extensions of the OpenAccess platform in such areas as new technology constraints and an enhanced architecture for multiple scripting languages, to name just a couple.”

About MDA

Mephisto Design Automation (MDA) delivers unique analog, mixed-signal and custom-digital design automation solutions based on its flagship platform M-DESIGN™. A highly flexible platform, M-DESIGN allows both novice and expert designers to significantly improve circuit performance, productivity and circuit understanding. With capabilities such as advanced testbench composition and flow control, embedded scripting, an extensive toolbox and patent-pending multi-level optimization, M-DESIGN is the tool of choice for the simulation, sizing, optimization, verification and migration of analog, mixed-signal and custom digital designs and IP. More information is available at www.mephisto-da.com.

About the OpenAccess Coalition

The OpenAccess Coalition is a community-driven initiative formed to enable the creation of tightly integrated flows involving best-in-class commercial and proprietary tools and intellectual property, necessary to support design of today’s complex chips. This is done through an open-standard data-access interface (API) and reference database implementation supporting that API. Leading electronics companies with significant investment in CAD tools and infrastructure, as well as many commercial electronic-design automation (EDA) tool providers, have embraced the OpenAccess initiative as a means to support rapid product development. The OpenAccess Coalition operates under the governance and bylaws of Si2. For a full members list, see this link: http://www.si2.org/?page=86.

About Si2

Si2 is the largest organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on the development and adoption of standards to improve the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, in order to speed time-to-market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Now in its 22nd year, Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable timely collaboration through dedicated staff and a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 represents nearly 100 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. See www.si2.org.

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For further information please contact:

Bill Bayer, Si2
+1512 342 2244

Kenneth Francken, CEO MDA
+32 16 40 36 32, Email Contact