Cohesion Systems Teams With Analogue Integration in the United Kingdom.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WOODSIDE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000

Cohesion Systems, Inc. today announced that they have engaged Analogue Integration Ltd. to market, sell and support Cohesion's Hierarchical Design System (HDS) products to customers throughout the United Kingdom.

Analogue Integration (www.analog.co.uk), headquartered in Corston, Wiltshire U.K., is an independent design house providing full custom analog, RF and mixed-signal ASIC design and supply solutions.

Cohesion's HDS product line, based on the venerable ECS legacy system, is a high-end, data-base driven capture system for Analog/Full Custom IC, Verilog/VHDL and PCB design environments, that runs on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms.

"We're delighted to have Analogue Integration as a partner to support our customers in the U.K.", said Jack Murphy, Cohesion's CEO. "They have built an outstanding reputation as the RF and Analog ASIC design choice since their founding in 1990. Our mutual customers will benefit from this relationship."

"We only sell and support software tools that we ourselves use daily for ASIC development," said Keith Juson of Analogue Integration. "This means that when you buy from us, you are buying from a supplier who knows and understands the tools intimately, and can provide you with complete assistance. We've used Cohesion's design tool for 10 years. In our opinion, it is the best independent platform for ASIC schematic capture in the industry."

Cohesion Systems was founded with the vision to provide the best of class, front-end software tools for the PCB, FPGA, ASIC and Analog IC design environments with a cohesive approach that binds together front-end design, simulation, and back-end layout tools. Visit the Cohesion Systems website at www.cohesionsystems.com.