PR Newswire
Oct 8, 2003 07:00 ET

Virage Logic Launches Expanded Partner Program

Program Delivers Complete Solutions, Accelerates Design Time and Improves Manufacturability

FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL) , a leading provider of best-in-class semiconductor IP platforms, today announced it has broadened and renamed its partner program and has added 16 new members. The Virage Logic IP (VIP) Partner program replaces the Memory Alliance Program (MAP), originally established in March 2001, to better support the needs of Virage Logic's growing list of semiconductor IP platform customers. Through well-established technology alliances with more than fifty partner companies, Virage Logic's VIP partners provide complementary solutions that span several different key categories including Design Services, EDA and Test, Foundry, and Intellectual Property (IP).

"Our customers have come to rely on us as a single source provider of silicon-proven IP. By partnering with over 50 enabling technology providers, our mutual customers benefit with access to complete solutions, accelerated design time and improved manufacturability," said Greer Person, vice president of business development for Virage Logic. "System-on-chip (SoC) design encompasses many decisions and activities beginning with system level conceptual design and ending with the shipment of packaged, tested parts. Our objective is to ensure that our customers move through this process as efficiently and reliably as possible."

Extensive Partner Program

The VIP Partner program includes the following types of companies, including the following new members: (Please see the attached addendum for a sampling of partner comments on the value of the VIP Partner program.)

-- Design Services: For customers choosing to augment their design teams or to outsource their entire chip design and production to a Design Services provider, the VIP Partner program ensures the availability of complementary design experts who have experience with Virage Logic IP and understand how to leverage that IP to the customer's benefit. New VIP Design Services partners Alchip Technologies, Manhattan Routing, Oceanstream, and SiGlobe join existing partners Arcadia Design Systems, Cadence Design Systems, CMOSChips, eSilicon Corporation, Faraday Technology, Flextronics, Infinite Technology, Intrinsix, Mosis, Quantum Think Group (Qthink) and Synopsys Professional Services.

-- EDA and Test Vendors: By working closely with EDA companies to ensure that their tools work optimally with Virage Logic's semiconductor IP platforms, we enable customers to take full advantage of the benefits
that highly optimized IP provides such as accelerated design time. Close collaboration with design-for-test (DFT) and test houses also improves manufacturability of large-scale designs, enhances flexibility in datapath planning and accelerates physical implementation. New VIP EDA and Test partners AmmoCore, Apache Design, Inovys, Synplicity and Zenasis join existing partners Artest, Cadence Design Systems, Credence, HPL Technologies, InTime Software, Logic Vision, Magma Design, Mentor Graphics, Nassda, Sequence Design, Sonics, and Synopsys, Inc.

-- Foundries: Virage Logic's foundry partnerships ensure access to silicon-proven IP on advanced semiconductor processes at competitive prices from multiple sources. New VIP Foundry partners Silterra and SMIC join existing partners Chartered Semiconductor, Tower, TSMC and UMC.

-- IP Vendors: By working in partnership with other leading IP suppliers to test silicon and provide reference designs, the VIP Partner program enables customers to access the true functionality of the IP prior to committing it to their design. New VIP IP partners ARM, Clearspeed, Denali, Imagination Technologies, and Morpho Technologies join existing partners 3DSP, Improv Systems, MIPS Technologies, QualCore Logic, QuickSilver Technology, Sarnoff, and Tensilica.

VIP Partners to Participate at the FSA Suppliers Expo

Virage Logic will be joined by more than 20 of its VIP partners at the FSA Suppliers Expo being held October 9, 2003, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California. Expo attendees will be able to see first hand how the VIP partner offerings complement Virage Logic's semiconductor IP platforms to provide SoC designers with access to more complete solutions, accelerated design time and improved manufacturability. For further information on the FSA Suppliers Expo, or to register, please visit http://www.fsa.org.

About Virage Logic

Virage Logic Corp. is a leading provider of best-in-class semiconductor IP platforms based on memory, logic, I/Os, and IP development tools that are silicon-proven and production ready. Virage Logic meets market demands for cost reduction, while improving performance and reliability for fabless and integrated device manufacturer (IDM) companies focused on the consumer, communications and networking, handheld and portable, and graphics markets. Virage Logic is headquartered in Fremont, California and has sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.viragelogic.com or call 877-360-6690 toll free or 510-360-8000.

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