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December 13, 2005 04:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

Bluespec Showcases Technology Leadership at IP-SOC 2005, VLSI 2006, DesignCon, DVCon; ESL Synthesis Recognized as Relevant Topic as Technologists, Executives, Customers Describe Commercial Usage

IP-SOC 2005

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2005--Technologists, executives and customers from Bluespec Inc., developer of the only ESL synthesis toolset for control logic and complex datapaths in chip design, are invited speakers at several technical conferences, including IP-SOC 2005 held this month in Grenoble, France.

This interest in ESL synthesis as a relevant technical topic continues into 2006 with presentations at VLSI 2006, DesignCon 2006 and DVCon 2006. Bluespec Founder Arvind, professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the banquet speaker during VLSI 2006 and will discuss, "UNUM: An Approach to Building Multicore PowerPC Microarchitectures."

For more details, contact George Harper, vice president of Bluespec, who can be reached at (781) 250-2200 or via email at george.harper@bluespec.com. Or, visit the Bluespec website located at: http://www.bluespec.com.

IP-SOC 2005 (IP-Based SoC Design Conference and Exhibition)
Grenoble, France
Held December 7 -8, 2005

-- Paper session titled, "A Case Study in Rule-Based Modeling"

-- Presented by: Wolfgang Ecker, Volkan Esen, Thomas Steininger
of Infineon Technologies and Mieszko Lis of Bluespec

More information can be found
at:http://www.us.design-reuse.com/ipsoc2005/

19th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI 2006)
Taj Krishna, Hyderabad, India
January 3-7, 2006

-- January 3, 9 a.m.: Tutorial Session T3A: Beyond RTL: Advanced
Digital System Design

-- Presented by: Rishiyur Nikhil and Shiv Tasker of Bluespec

-- January 6, 8 p.m: Banquet Speaker: Professor Arvind of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bluespec founder

-- Title: "UNUM: An Approach to Building Multicore PowerPC
Microarchitectures"

More information can be found at: http://www.vlsiconference.com/

DesignCon 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif.
February 6-9, 2006

-- February 6, 1:30 p.m.: TechForum Tutorial: TF-MP1: Beyond RTL:
Advanced Digital System Design

-- Description: This tutorial will introduce new technologies and
advanced techniques to cope with the complexity of designing
modern digital chips which, increasingly, are complete systems
containing multiple processors, complex IP blocks and
high-speed buses and interconnection networks.

-- Presented by: Rishiyur Nikhil of Bluespec

-- February 8, 9 a.m.: Management Forum Panel: Make Technical
On-Line Marketing Truly "Technical" -- From Tactics to
Strategy: What Works and What Doesn't?

-- Chairperson: Ed Y. Zhang, Hometown Innovation Automation Inc.
Bluespec panelist: George Harper

More information can be found
at:http://www.designcon.com/2006/index.html

Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon 2006)
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, Calif.
February 22-24, 2006

-- February 23, 11 a.m.: Technical Session 3: A False Dichotomy?
High-Level Synthesis and Control: A CPU Case Study

-- Presenters: Wolfgang Ecker, Volkan Esen, Thomas Steininger of
Infineon Technologies and Mieszko Lis of Bluespec

More information can be found at: http://www.dvcon.org/

About Bluespec

Bluespec Inc. manufactures an industry standards-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolset that significantly raises the level of abstraction for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high-quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolset, the only one focused on control and complex datapaths, allows ASIC and FPGA designers to reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling (781) 250-2200.

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