Monarch Technologies Group Becomes YogiTech's Exclusive U.S. Sales, Marketing Channel; Verification Leader Poised for Accelerated Growth with Monarch Partnership.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2004

Monarch Technologies Group, a company dedicated to providing world class sales and marketing capability to the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community, announced today that YogiTech S.p.A, an Italian design and verification leading-edge company, has chosen Monarch to be their exclusive sales and marketing channel in North America. YogiTech, leveraging its expertise in digital and mixed signal SOC design, is a world class provider of verification components for troubleshooting standard protocols and interfaces. Verification components (eVCs) are based on Verisity's e verification language and the Specman Elite(R) testbench automation solution. YogiTech's eVCs are eRM compliant and they provide complete verification environments including test generation, assertion and protocol checking, monitoring and functional based coverage scenarios. Monarch will promote and sell YogiTech's line of eVCs that include Open Core Protocol (OCP2.0), AT Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI6) and Controller Area Network (CAN2.0).

According to Bill Hoolhorst, president of Monarch Technologies Group, "YogiTech's value-add, plug-and-play product line is a significant addition to our verification portfolio road map. We intend to extend their global momentum by implementing a coordinated sales and marketing campaign for the introduction of YogiTech in the United States. Monarch will immediately begin promoting and selling YogiTech's products through a series of strategically planned and implemented programs, including direct sales, branding, collateral material, advertising, public relations and trade show management."

Silvano Motto, CEO of YogiTech said, "In appointing Monarch Technologies Group as our North American sales partner we have established both a strategic and tactical competitive solution. We anticipate that Monarch will accelerate our market penetration into the United States and allow for faster growth. Monarch fills a long-standing need that we have had and could not meet with our own resources. Then we can focus on strengthening our infrastructure, support and the development of our advanced technology. We believe that YogiTech's growth, customer engagements and successes will continue in the United States because of the addition of the Monarch sales channel, coverage and contacts."

AboutYogiTech

YogiTech S.p.A. is an independent IC design and verification company, founded in 2000 and based in Pisa, Italy. The Company offers the full set of services ranging from system and architecture design to physical layout, testing and verification. It is also active in the research topic of fault robust (fault tolerant and secure) and dependable SOC engineering for which it is developing system-level IPs and complementary design methodologies. YogiTech designs eVCs for custom and standard protocols, interfaces and processors to easily satisfy customers' specific verification environment's requirements.

Protocols' expertise and e verification language deep knowledge, along with an effective and proven quality support service (YOSS), are the key features for YogiTech's success. YogiTech's customers are high-end semiconductor companies and systems OEMs. YogiTech has R&D office in Turin and anticipates starting operations in Sophia Antipolis (Nice, France) during 2004. YogiTech is an active member of the Verisity's Verification Alliance Program, a Sponsor Member of the OCP IP and an ARM(TM) Technology Access Partner.

About Monarch Technologies Group

Founded in 2003, Monarch Technologies Group is focused on becoming the major sales and marketing resource for emerging electronic design automation (EDA) companies, supplying a significant channel for connecting large numbers of North American consumers with these companies. Monarch Technologies Group is privately held and self funded. Corporate headquarters is located at: 235 Sylvan Way, Redwood City, Calif. 94062. Telephone: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. More details can be found at the Monarch Technology Group website located at: http://www.monarchtechgroup.com.

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