LogicVision Appoints Rodger Sykes as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1999--

LogicVision, Inc., the leader in embedded test for integrated circuits (ICs) and systems, today announced the appointment of Dr. Rodger Sykes as vice president of marketing and business development.

Sykes will be responsible for driving LogicVision's global leadership in the design for test industry by spearheading all aspects of marketing and new business development throughout the U.S., Europe and Pan Asia.

"Rodger brings over 19 years of extensive marketing, business development and senior management experience in semiconductors, ASICs, consumer electronics and EDA that will enable him to effectively direct our worldwide marketing and business development activity," said Dr. Vinod Agarwal, LogicVision's president and CEO. "I look forward to working with him to further develop a marketing and business roadmap that will foster additional domestic and international relationships."

Prior to joining LogicVision, Sykes was the marketing and business development director for Philips Semiconductor in Mountain View, Calif., in the Windows(R) systems IC business unit. While at Philips, he also managed the Paradise Multimedia business unit and was a key member of the overall semiconductor strategic team. Before Philips, Sykes spent 13 years at Texas Instruments in Europe and the U.S. in various engineering, marketing and business management roles in the ASIC sector.

"The acceleration of semiconductor complexity has created a vital need for embedded test technology," said Sykes. "The ability to integrate embedded test at all levels of the silicon business is a truly revolutionary concept. I look forward in helping drive this technology to a higher level of usage to benefit the next generation of users. LogicVision has an excellent team and tremendous amount of market potential that will prove to be invaluable as we move forward."

LogicVision Technology

LogicVision's patented technology embeds high-performance test and diagnosis circuitry directly into integrated circuits, eliminating some of the most challenging design and manufacturing issues associated with very deep submicron and system-on-a-chip technologies. The embedded test circuits are inserted using LogicVision's proprietary design tools, and test programs are automatically generated. By minimizing the need for capital- and labor-intensive external test, embedded test shortens time to market and greatly reduces test costs. In addition, the embedded test circuitry can be re-used hierarchically at the board- and system-level to optimize the quality and cost of electronic products. For integrated circuits consisting of more than one million gates, embedded test requires less than 2 percent silicon overhead. The solution is compatible with existing design flows and manufacturing environments.

About LogicVision

LogicVision has licensed its embedded test technology to leaders in the computer, communications, military/aeronautics and semiconductor industries, including Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, Hughes Space and Communications and Texas Instruments.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., LogicVision has sales and support offices in Solano Beach, Calif.; Waltham, Mass.; Raleigh, N.C.; Richardson, Texas and Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Distribution partners provide sales and support in Ra'anana, Israel; Seoul, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Tokyo, Japan and Singapore. The company also has a research and development facility in Ottawa, Ontario.

For more information on the company and its products, please visit the LogicVision Web site at: www.logicvision.com.