Anagram Brings on Tarpley to Further Expand International Sales Effort; Tarpley and Ing Join Company During Period of Rapid Growth.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1996--Anagram, Inc., a leading provider of simulation technology for sub-half micron applications, today announced that it is expanding its international sales operations with the addition of David Tarpley to the newly formed position of vice president of international sales.

The company also announced that Guey T. Ing has joined the company as director of applications engineering.

Ed Cheng, president of Anagram stated, "Anagram has been experiencing tremendous acceptance worldwide and has expanded its customer base significantly with its best-of-class simulation technology for sub-half micron designs. The demand for our product is very strong in Asia and Europe, and 40 percent of our revenues already come from overseas. As Anagram is committed to further expansion in these regions, we are pleased to bring Dave Tarpley on board. Dave's wide-ranging business expertise and knowledge of the international EDA market will help accelerate our global business.

"In addition to Dave, we are pleased to bring Guey Ing on board," continued Cheng. "As director of applications engineering, Guey will continue Anagram's effort to build a staff to educate customers on the use of our products and to provide technical support. Ease of use is a major reason for the rapid acceptance of Anagram's products, and we place a high priority on customer satisfaction."

Tarpley, age 50, has over 25 years of sales experience in the high-technology industry. Most recently, he held the position of vice president of worldwide sales at High Level Design Systems, where he was responsible for increasing company sales from $3.5 million to $10 million in a one-year period. He is most well known for his role at Cadence Design Systems where he served as vice president of Asian operations. Tarpley set up the company's entire Asian distributor and customer base during the company's origin and managed it until Cadence became a $500 million company. Tarpley has also held sales positions at Marubeni Corp., Coherent Radiation and other high-technology companies.

Tarpley received a bachelor of science in business from U.C. Berkeley and a masters in business administration from California State University, Fullerton.

Ing, age 40, comes to Anagram from Meta-Software, where he held the position of director of applications engineering. Prior to this, he worked at Cadence Design Systems for eight years. His most recent position at Cadence was senior technical service manager. Before this, he was a senior circuit design engineer and project leader at Advanced Micro Devices.

He received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.

Anagram delivers easy-to-use, high-capacity circuit simulation and high-accuracy timing analysis software for performance-oriented IC designers. ADM, Anagram's first product offering, is being used by many of the world's innovators in submicron design.

Anagram's customers consist of silicon-based systems companies and semiconductor companies in the processor, graphics, memory, communications and mixed-signal markets. Key customers include: AMD, Alliance, Altera, Cirrus Logic, Fujitsu, Hyundai, MEC-Panasonic, Micron Technology, Mitsubishi, Motorola, National Semiconductor, NEC, Rambus, S3, Samsung, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, TSMC, UMC and Winbond.

Anagram, is headquartered at 617 Palomar Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94086, phone [phone], fax [phone]. Anagram's website is at www.anagraminc.com. ADM is a trademark of Anagram Inc.

CONTACT: Anagram, Inc.

Ed Cheng, 408/328-9208

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Eileen Elam Cross, 415/917-1488