CoWare Names Dr. Heinrich Meyr Chief Scientist; Professor Meyr to Serve on CoWare's Board and Lead Technical Advisory Board.

Business Editors & Technology Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003

Dr. Heinrich Meyr today assumed the role of chief scientist at CoWare(TM) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software, reporting to Alan Naumann, CoWare's president and chief executive officer (CEO).

Professor Meyr, co-founder of LISATek Inc., which was recently acquired by CoWare, has also been named to the CoWare Board of Directors and will lead its Technical Advisory Board (TAB) that will include industry luminaries, customers and academic researchers.

"Dr. Meyr is one of the leading researchers and industry visionaries in the area of advanced digital signal processing system design. His research has been applied to many industrial products," notes Naumann. "We welcome him to our executive team and look forward to his insights."

Professor Meyr is head of the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems (ISS) at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen), and a well-known pioneer and entrepreneur in the EDA industry. He founded CADIS GmbH and introduced COSSAP, a revolutionary tool for the communications industry. CADIS was acquired in 1993 by Synopsys, Inc.

He has published numerous, award-winning IEEE papers and holds several patents. As well as being a Fellow of the IEEE, Professor Meyr has served as vice president for International Affairs of the IEEE Communications Society and is the recipient of many awards including the Vodafone Prize for his contributions to wireless communications.

Professor Meyr received a master's of science degree and a Ph.D. from ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He spent more than 12 years in various research and management positions in industry before accepting a professorship in Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen in 1977. About CoWare

CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software and services for system-on-chip (SoC) designers. CoWare is revolutionizing SoC and embedded software development by enabling customers to create design platforms that can be rapidly optimized to meet specific market needs. SoC designs consisting of embedded processors and software, busses, memory, new and reused proprietary IP, are created and verified using the CoWare N2C system-level design environment and the LISATek(TM) software tools. CoWare's design environment utilizes open, standard languages such as C and SystemC (C++), and interfaces with popular third-party tools from Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor. CoWare software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies, including ARM, Canon, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, ST Microelectronics, Toshiba and Xilinx. For the second year, the San Jose Business Journal has recognized CoWare as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.CoWare.com.

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