Craig M. Wentzel Promoted to Vice President, Worldwide Sales.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1996--Silicon Valley Research Inc. (NASDAQ:SVRI)(SVR) today announced that Craig M. Wentzel, formerly vice president of eastern area sales for the company, has been promoted to vice president, worldwide sales.

Craig (age 42) joined SVR as vice president of eastern area sales in December 1995. Wentzel was sales director at Zycad before joining SVR and prior to that held senior sales management positions at Valid Logic Systems, Cadence Design Systems and Tecktronix Inc.

Wentzel has over 16 years of sales and management experience, 10 of those years with EDA companies. He received a BSET from Trenton State College and an MS in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University.

"We are delighted to have Craig take on this expanded role for SVR," said Glenn E. Abood, president and CEO of SVR. "Craig has a great deal of experience and a wealth of contacts in the EDA industry, and thus I am certain he will have a significant impact on the sales operations of our company."

Silicon Valley Research offers a broad line of integrated placement, routing and floorplanning physical layout software products that enable electronics manufacturers to achieve improved semiconductor performance and smaller chip size in their integrated circuit designs.

Headquartered in San Jose, the company has sales and support offices in the United States and Asia. Silicon Valley Research's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Market under the symbol of SVRI.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties and accordingly actual results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements.

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