Electronic Design Tool Veteran, Jeff Dean, Joins Denali As European Manager.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. and PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000

Denali Software (Denali), Inc., the leading EDA company focused on memory subsystem design and verification, today announced that it has appointed Jeff Dean as its general manager for Europe. Dean reports to Sanjay Srivastava, Denali's president, and is responsible for managing sales and support efforts in Europe. He is based in Bracknell, England, UK.

Denali's European operation, established last year, provides direct sales and support services for Denali's rapidly growing customer base. Denali now has European offices in the United Kingdom and Munich, Germany.

"Our business continues to grow rapidly throughout the world," noted Sanjay K. Srivastava, president of Denali. "By the establishment of a stronger European operation, our customers have direct access to local support that is highly qualified and focused on improving memory subsystem design and verification."

"I joined Denali because of its reputation as the market leader in memory modeling, its customer focus and its interest in addressing the important and growing market for memory-based systems using intellectual property," noted Jeff Dean, Denali's general manager for Europe.

Dean has been involved in the EDA industry for about 20 years. He has held senior management positions at Silvar-Lisco (now Silicon Valley Research), and Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) and set up European operations for several companies including Logic Modeling and Exemplar Logic (now part of Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ: MNTR) and Topdown Design.

About Memory Models From Denali

Denali's SOMA language is designed to provide high quality memory models to designers of electronic systems and enables distribution of models across the Internet and World Wide Web. Used with the Denali Memory Modeler(tm), SOMA offers easy portability of memory component libraries for use across all EDA simulation and verification environments. Denali models and tools run on Solaris, SunOS, Windows NT/95, HPUX, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, IRIX and AIX operating systems.

About Denali

Denali Software, Inc. is the world's leading provider of solutions for memory subsystem design automation. Since pioneering the segment in 1994, Denali has expanded to provide direct sales and support teams worldwide to service the Company's over 3000 users.

Denali's products are used to simulate memory systems for computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and other complex electronic systems. Memory vendor relationships and the Company's SOMA technology allow Denali to streamline the traditionally inefficient flow for integrating new memory technologies into today's designs.

Denali Software, Inc. is located at 644 Emerson Street, Suite 7, Palo Alto, Calif., USA 94301. 650 325-7241, Fax: [phone]. For more information on Denali's products and services, visit www.denalisoft.com

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Contact information:

Denali Software Inc., 644 Emerson St., Suite 7, Palo Alto, CA, 94301. 650 325-7241 x18, FAX: [phone], www.denalisoft.com, Alissa Gogolewski, [e-mail].

Europe and UK: Jeff Dean, Tel [phone], [e-mail]

Germany: Ulrich Koehler, Tel [phone], [e-mail]

Denali Memory Modeler is a trademark of Denali Software, Inc. ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Ltd.

Denali Software acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

Tru64 UNIX is a trademark of Compaq Computer Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd.