ASIC Alliance Corporation Announces the Launch of Preconfigured Reusable Environment and Platform Service.

Business/Technology Editors

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000

New Environment Enables ASIC Alliance to Provide Faster

Time-to-Revenue for Customers

ASIC Alliance Corporation today announced the launch of PREP, a Preconfigured Reusable Environment and Platform that codifies verification best practices and enables them to be deployed across multiple projects. Using PREP, ASIC Alliance will provide its customers with significantly reduced deployment time, enabling them to experience faster ramp-up of their complex verification projects. The development and implementation of the PREP environment reflects ASIC Alliances' active commitment to providing solutions that enable design reuse.

The PREP implementation service provides project specific configuration and customization that enables efficient reuse of technology and methodology from one verification project to the next. Included in PREP are standardized structures and methods for a variety of verification tasks, including: statistic gathering and monitoring; directory structures; library additions; test invocation; and revision control. In addition, PREP is designed to seamlessly incorporate transactors that will support leading industry standard protocols.

Using PREP, ASIC Alliance can dramatically reduce the time it takes to create the verification environment. Prior to PREP, it would typically take two engineers working six to eight weeks to deploy the verification environment; but, using PREP, this process takes only two weeks. In addition, because the methodology is scalable and predictable, it is not necessary for engineers to learn about the verification environment and the project; they only need to focus on the project. This "project only" focus enables engineers to move from one project to the next more quickly, reducing start-up times and increasing productivity.

"At ASIC Alliance, we believe that PREP is an important next step in the evolution of our design services and methodologies. The PREP environment enables us to learn from our experiences in the field, bring that knowledge back to our organization, and apply it to our future projects," states Ray Carlin, president and chief executive officer at ASIC Alliance. "The end result is that we are able to continuously enhance and improve our design verification services and provide our customers with faster time-to-revenue for their complex projects."

PREP is currently in early customer deployment and will be generally available in September 2000.

About ASIC Alliance Corporation

Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., ASIC Alliance Corporation is a leading provider of tools, processes and services to companies developing products with complex, sub-micron ASIC and FPGA technologies. The Company provides Time-to-Revenue Design Engineering SolutionsSM that enable breakthroughs in the time-to-market delivery of digital systems using a system level verification methodology integrating "best of class" EDA software with its own unique tools. ASIC Alliance forms a partnership in its customers' success by leveraging a center of excellence grounded in ASIC technology and industry expertise. Information about ASIC Alliance and its services and products is available by phone at 781-932-2442, by e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Internet at http://www.asic-alliance.com.