Advanced Simulation Models from Denali Speed Integration of New SISRAM Memory

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TOKYO, Japan, April 24, 2007 —Denali Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced a collaborative effort with System Fabrication Technologies, Inc. to develop high-quality simulation models for System-in-Silicon™ RAM (SISRAM), a new high-bandwidth, large-capacity memory technology from System Fabrication Technologies, Inc. Denali will deploy the models in the SOMA format, which enables developers to perform accurate simulations of SISRAM devices within any commercial design and verification flow. Availability of high-quality simulation models speeds development of SISRAM systems and ensures high-quality and optimal performance for the end-product designs.

"SISRAM is currently under development for mass production, and major digital appliances with this chip are expected in the market in 2008," said Kenji Yoshida, CEO and president of System Fabrication Technologies, Inc. "SISRAM has a great advantage for image processing because of its data transfer capability between high-speed memories and logic LSIs. The availability of simulation models from Denali is a key enabler for rapid adoption of SISRAM in the global market."

The SISRAM provides a 6.4 Gbps transfer rate and a 128 Mbit capacity, and a new release planned in 2008 will offer 8.5 Gbps and 512 Mbit. This memory facilitates packaging with system-on-chips (SoCs) reducing I/O power consumption by more than 60% compared with Double-Data-Rate (DDR) devices. The overall system costs are minimized by optimizing capacity and data transfer rate.

"Providing design and verification solutions for memory systems is one of our core competencies," said Kevin Silver, vice president of marketing at Denali Software. "Memory systems play a critical role any nearly all SoC designs, and having access to complete and accurate memory device models, early in the design cycle, is essential. By working with System Fabrication Technologies we are able to provide these high-quality models, and enable designers to quickly verify and optimize SISRAM system designs in the market."

Denali's MMAV product is the most widely used solution for modeling and simulating memory devices for chip and system level design. Developers use MMAV to simulate virtually any memory device from any memory vendor by accessing a library of over 10,000 SOMA models freely available online at www.eMemory.com. Using the device specific SOMA models with MMAV, designers can simulate the detailed features, functionality, and timing of a given memory device, with advanced verification features to ensure optimal memory system design. Denali works with all leading EDA vendors to ensure seamless integration with all commercial simulators, test bench tools, and languages including: Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, C, SystemC, etc.

About System Fabrication Technologies

System Fabrication Technologies, Inc. is a semiconductor venture company founded in 2003. It aims at putting System-in-Silicon™, SISRAM memory with a unique architecture, in practical use by leveraging venture capital investments and adopting two NEDO#1 grants. System-in-Silicon is being closely watched by both domestic and overseas digital appliances manufacturers because of its higher on-chip memory bandwidth compared to conventional SoCs and development advantages, such as low-cost and short-term development, and is currently under development for mass production. For further information about SISRAM, please access at http://www.s-f-t.co.jp #1:New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization

About Denali

Denali Software, Inc. is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, NAND Flash and DDR DRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP and services to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at http://www.denali.com.

Denali and Denali Software are registered trademarks of Denali Software, Inc. MMAV is a trademark of Denali Software, Inc. System-in-Silicon and SISRAM are trademarks of System Fabrication Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are of their respective owners.

For more information, contact:

Pierre Golde
Denali Software Inc.
650.461.7262
pgolde@denali.com

Naoya Tohyama
System Fabrication Technologies, Inc.
408.725.1239
tohyama@s-f-t.co.jp

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