James M. Lee Announces the ASIC Group, an Electronic Design and Consulting Services Company.

Business Editors

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2002

EDA visionary, design services veteran and author, James M. Lee, today announced the formation of The ASIC Group. The ASIC Group offers electronic design and verification services for ASIC and SOC designs and targets low power, portable design applications.

"We believe expertise in low power design techniques is critical for all ASIC and SOC designs. We specialize in these designs to add value to our customers' applications as well as improve their time-to-market", said James M. Lee President and founder of The ASIC Group."

"Our designers are experts in architecting and implementing electronic systems. Their experience includes the design and verification of low power designs and high speed, high power designs such as graphics chips, bus bridges, disk controllers and networking circuits."

Lee noted, "Next year, we expect to grow and add to our design teams."

James M. Lee, founder and president of the ASIC Group, is highly respected in the EDA industry for his many publications and forward thinking on the future of electronic design technology. His planning and management expertise has successfully seen many ASIC and SOC designs to completion. Mr. Lee is the author of the definitive guide to Verilog, "Verilog Quickstart," now in its 3rd edition.

About The ASIC Group

The ASIC Group provides expert design and verification services for ASIC, ASSP and SOC designs. Each member of the ASIC Group's design staff has 15 or more years of electronic design experience, and has successfully developed chips for such industry titans as IBM, LSI Logic, Qualcom and Seagate.

The company's offerings include: SOC and ASIC design services, verification services, EDA tool evaluation, design methodology services, design audits, FPGA prototyping, FPGA to ASIC conversion, bug fixes and ECOs as well as training. Its staff has designed disk drives, disk controllers, RAID controllers, PCI and PCI-X bus interfaces, portable and low power devices, graphics chips, as well as GPS, HDTV, digital signal processing and medical devices.

For more information, please visit www.ASICGroup.com, phone [phone] or email [e-mail].

Acronyms and definitions:

ASIC           Application Specific IC
ASSP           Application Specific Standard Part
ECO            Engineering Change Order
EDA            Electronic Design Automation
FPGA           Field Programmable Gate Array
GPS            Global Positioning System
HDTV           High Definition TV
IC             Integrated Circuit
PCI            Personal Computer Interface
PCI-X          updated PCI standard
RAID           Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
SOC            System on Chip

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