Denali Announces SOMA Models to Support Toshiba's Newly-Announced 256M/288M DRAM Family, to Support System Design Effort.

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000

Denali Models for Toshiba's Advanced 256M DDR SDRAM, 256M FCRAM 

and 256M/288M Rambus RDRAM Are Now

Available On Denali Website

Denali Software, Inc. today announced availability of its SOMA models for three new families of Toshiba 256M DRAMs: nine new 256M DDR SDRAMs, eighteen new 256M DDR FCRAM products, and six new 256M/288M Rambus RDRAMs.

These DRAMs are built with Toshiba's advanced 0.175um technology. A separate Denali model represents each individual product announced.

System designers can now download the SOMA files from the Denali website www.eMemory.com, or from the Toshiba website www.semicon.toshiba.co.jp (available soon), to speed design and verification for memory subsystems using these new Toshiba products. All Denali models interface seamlessly into the most advanced simulation software available from Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, and other leading suppliers of simulation environments. These new 256M (288M) DRAM families are also supported by the existing Denali design and verification software that includes SOMA files for virtually all memory products from all vendors, Memory Modeler, and the PureData Debugging and Functional Verification Suite.

Denali and Toshiba have engaged in the Denali Memory Vendor Program (MVP) as a means of accelerating the system design and verification cycle for new memory products. In this program, MVP members work closely with Denali to ensure simultaneous availability of product datasheets and their associated models, so that system design and debugging can begin concurrently with new product introduction.

Denali memory models have become the de facto industry standard for modeling memory and memory systems. The rapid adoption of Denali's tool suite and methodology has eliminated much of the industry's redundant memory modeling effort, eased the often-difficult transition to new memory technologies, and eliminated delays in access to current and accurate models.

"Toshiba has been working closely with Denali Software to ensure that the models for these three leading edge memories, the 256M DDR DRAM and 256M DDR FCRAM, and the 256M/288M RDRAM, would be available at the same time the products were announced for production. The simultaneous introduction of our new DRAMs and their associated models, means our customers can immediately begin modeling systems with our part, without the customary delays while models were developed and evaluated," said Shozo Saito, General Manager for Toshiba's DRAM Division.

"At the same time Toshiba was developing its 256M DRAM and FCRAMs, and its 256M/288M RDRAMs, Denali was building and testing the corresponding models, and systems designers were evaluating and integrating the memories into next generation designs," said Mark Gogolewski, Denali's COO and VP of Engineering.

About Denali:

Denali Software, Inc., was founded in 1994 with the intention of streamlining the memory subsystem modeling, design and verification process. They employ 45 in offices worldwide, and are headquartered at 644 Emerson St., Suite 7, Palo Alto, Calif., 94301.

Reader Service Contact information:

Denali Software, Inc., 644 Emerson St., Suite 7, Palo Alto, Calif., 94301, 650/325-7241, ext. 18, FAX: [phone], www.denalisoft.com, Alissa Gogolewski, [e-mail].

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