Arcadia Design System Expands to New Facility.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1999--

Arcadia Design Systems, the leading supplier of datapath placement electronic design automation (EDA) tools, has moved to a new facility to accommodate the over 50% growth rate it experienced over the past year.

The new 26,000-square-foot facility, located at 2801 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134, is a sizable increase over the company's previous location in Santa Clara, which consisted of only 12,000 square feet. Arcadia Design Systems currently employs 65 people. The main phone number at this new facility is 408-546-1800 and the fax number is 408-546-1700.

"Our growth over the past year is directly attributable to strong demand for our high-performance design engineering services and much stronger product sales, particularly as a result of our joint marketing agreement with Cadence Design Systems (NYSE: CDN)," stated Dr. Wei-Kong Chia, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arcadia Design Systems.

Arcadia Design Systems is well recognized as the leading high-end design service provider delivering high-end datapath oriented designs such as CPUs, DSPs, FPUs, and high-end multimedia ASICs, from a single module to the entire chip. For the past two years, the company has helped many world class US and Japanese customers design high-end CPUs, DSPs and FPUs with 0.15 technology at 500MHz. The key to success in this business is the experienced design team and the design methodology developed around the Mustang(R) datapath design environment.

Arcadia Design Systems' Mustang tool provides high-performance designers with a much easier and more time efficient way to optimize the placement of datapath-intensive designs, such as CPUs, DSPs and high-end graphics and communications ICs. Because of the inherent regularity in datapaths, a specialized tool like Mustang can reduce datapath block sizes and wire length by up to 50 percent over traditional place and route tools. In addition, Mustang's fast compile times let engineers check out "what if" scenarios to make sure they have the most efficient datapath placement possible.

Mustang easily fits into most high-performance design flows. As a member of the Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) in-Sync(TM) program, Arcadia Design Systems accepts standard Verilog or VHDL netlists as input, and outputs DEF files that can be read by many place-and-route tools.

Arcadia Design Systems provides innovative physical design solutions that enable engineers to achieve superior performance in a dramatically reduced time frame. Arcadia Design Systems provides tools and design services for high-performance datapath-intensive designs. Visit Arcadia Design Systems at www.ArcadiaDesign.com.