Synopsys Professional Services and CATT Team Up to Accelerate 3G Wireless Product Development; Synopsys Design Conformance Lab Facilitates Compliance to 3G Standard.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), the technology leader for complex IC designs, today announced the availability of the TD-SCDMA Design Conformance Lab, the result of a collaborative effort between Synopsys Professional Services and the China Academy for Telecommunications Technology (CATT), co-inventor of the TD-SCDMA standard. The Design Conformance Lab offers a set of integrated modules that provide wireless developers with a design reference, standards conformance verification, and test management and automation. The Design Conformance Lab significantly reduces the risks associated with misinterpreting the complex 3G protocols and helps verify compliance to industry standards throughout the development process. Based on Synopsys' CoCentric(R) System Studio design environment, the Lab includes fully compliant receiver design and radio channel simulation models that significantly reduce the R&D effort required to develop a working chip prototype, thus conforming to the TD-SCDMA standard.

One of the five 3G standards recognized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), TD-SCDMA was invented as a joint effort between CATT (through its subsidiary Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group) and Siemens of Germany. TD-SCDMA appears alongside TD-CDMA in the 3G technical standards as the narrower band option of the two time-division duplex (TDD) radio transmission modes. TD-SCDMA allows operators to build a 3G network at lower cost than other 3G technologies. It also allows operators to utilize scarce spectrum more efficiently. CATT and Chinese carriers like China Mobile and China Telecom established the TD-SCDMA Forum last year to promote and accelerate the standard. The organization currently has more than 200 member companies, including Alcatel, Motorola, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nokia, and China's ZTE Communications.

"We teamed up with Synopsys Professional Services to support development of the Lab because we believe our technical insight as inventors of the technology, combined with their many years of experience in the wireless systems design domain, would yield a product that enhances the silicon development effort," said Dr. Shi-He Li, professor and co-inventor of the standard, and chief technical officer and vice president of CATT. "As users of the Design Conformance Lab ourselves, we can see that it significantly reduces time-to-market barriers for developing TD-SCDMA-based products in China and around the world."

"While designers focus on adding unique features to differentiate their products, they also understand that commercial success requires working silicon," said Dr. Gerd Ascheid, senior director for wireless and broadband communications solutions, Synopsys Professional Services. "The fastest way to get to silicon is to begin with a reference design that is fully supported with a verification and test environment. By leveraging the speed of CoCentric System Studio, the Design Conformance Lab enables users to quickly evaluate different design options and ensure that the product is compliant with the latest industry standards."

Availability

The Design Conformance Lab product for TD-SCDMA is immediately available at a price of $95,000 U.S.

About CATT

As a research institute with the longest history, largest scale and strongest power in China's telecommunications technology industry, the China Academy for Telecommunications Technology (CATT) regards development and creation of information technology as its main task. In September of 1998, CATT centralized its twelve research institutes, seven joint venture holding companies, one design institute, and one public company to form Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group in accordance with the regulations of state technology reform.

CATT's products -- including switching equipment; optical, mobile and microwave communications equipment and systems; and communications applications software -- are widely used in public and private telecommunications networks throughout China, with additional market penetration into the United States, Japan and other countries.

In 1998, on behalf of the People's Republic of China, CATT proposed its mobile telecommunications technology to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU subsequently adopted TD-SCDMA as a 3G wireless standard. Visit CATT at http://www.catt.ac.cn/english/.

About Synopsys Professional Services

Synopsys Professional Services directly contributes to the success of leading electronics firms worldwide by delivering the technology, methodology and expertise to solve their most demanding system-on-chip (SoC) development challenges. Synopsys Professional Services' comprehensive portfolio of services covers all critical phases of the SoC development process, as well as systems development in wireless and broadband applications. Leading-edge development demands close collaboration, and customers are offered a variety of engagement models from methodology-driven project assistance to full turnkey development to best fit their business and project needs.

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), headquartered in Mountain View, California, creates leading electronic design automation (EDA) tools for the global electronics market. The company delivers advanced design technologies and solutions to developers of complex integrated circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Synopsys also provides consulting and support services to simplify the overall IC design process and accelerate time to market for its customers. Visit Synopsys at http://www.synopsys.com.

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