Carbon Design Systems Exhibits & Hosts Virtual System Prototyping Methodology Session & Luncheon at DATE in Munich.

Carbon Design Systems:

Who:
    Carbon Design Systems, an innovator in Electronic System Level
    (ESL) tools for system validation, based in Waltham, MA.

    What:
    Carbon's Virtual Prototyping Software

    At DATE 2006, Carbon Design Systems is demonstrating its virtual
    system prototyping software product -- SOC-VSP(TM) -- that allows
    RTL (Verilog and VHDL) designs to be easily imported into an
    ARM(R) RealView(R) SoC Designer environment. SOC-VSP enables
    multiple levels of design abstraction to be combined in a single
    system model. Models can include: 'C', SystemC, RTL, processor
    models, and transaction-level models. SOC-VSP is used by system
    architects and software developers to validate their chip
    architecture and embedded firmware on a hardware accurate model.

    Carbon's Technical Seminar & Luncheon
    A Virtual System Prototyping Methodology for ARM Processor-based
    SoCs

    Carbon and ARM will present a joint seminar on electronic system
    level (ESL) tools and an accompanying methodology for
    system-on-chip (SoC) design that includes architectural modeling,
    performance analysis, firmware development, and system validation.
    The session will show how Carbon's SOC-VSP and ARM's RealView SoC
    Designer are used to develop and validate ARM processor-based SoC
    designs. The methodology and tools presented in the seminar enable
    early architecture and firmware validation using cycle-accurate,
    transaction-level models in a high-performance system simulation
    environment.

    When/Where:
    Exhibit
        Tuesday, 7th March 10.00 - 19.00
        Wednesday, 8th March 10.00 - 18.00
        Thursday, 9th March 10.00 - 17.00
        Stand: A18

    Technical Seminar & Luncheon
        Tuesday, 7th March 13.00 - 14.00
        Room 11
        ICM, MESSE Munich, Germany

    Appointments, Information & Technical Session Registration:

    To make an appointment with Carbon at DATE, please contact: Andy
    Ladd at [e-mail].

    To reserve a spot for Carbon's Technical Seminar and Luncheon,
    please contact John Emmitt at [e-mail].

    For more information on Carbon Design System, please visit,
    www.carbondesignsystems.com.
    For more information about DATE, please visit
    www.date-conference.com.

About Carbon

Carbon is delivering a high-performance virtual system prototyping solution that enables a system prototype to be rapidly assembled and functionally validated on the desktop months before silicon. Carbon's new software approach allows multiple levels of abstraction to be validated together including C, SystemC, Verilog and VHDL RTL, IP cores, transaction-level, and instruction-level models. The key to SOC-VSP is silicon accuracy and performance; the ability to execute billions of cycles and boot embedded operating systems, all with desktop software.

The company is headquartered at 375 Totten Pond Road, Suite 100/200, Waltham, MA. 02451. Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone], Email: [e-mail], Corporate website: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

Carbon Design Systems and SOC-VSP are trademarks of Carbon Design Systems, Incorporated.

ARM and RealView are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; AXYS GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Physical IP, Inc.

All other companies and products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.