High-Quality Verification IP Portfolio Accelerates Design and Verification
Of High-Performance Processors

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2009 — Denali Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced that Ubicom, a leading provider of networking and multimedia processor solutions, has extended its relationship with Denali, taking full advantage of its advanced protocol verification technology and services. Ubicom has selected Denali’s MMAV™ and PureSpec™ verification IP (VIP), which support high-speed communications and peripheral protocols, to aid in the design and verification of their media and network processors. Denali’s MMAV and PureSpec fortifies Ubicom’s designers with a predictable protocol verification IP solution to meet their design requirements and lower integration risk, ensuring interoperability with new products.

“Our hardware and software innovations enable multimedia and networking products that ensure a high-quality user experience and unprecedented ease of use,” states Jon Gibbons, vice president of VLSI Engineering at Ubicom. “Denali has consistently provided robust, high-quality verification IP solutions and reaffirmed their superb industry reputation for protocol expertise. We are confident that their solutions will continue to enable our designers to take advantage of the latest protocol features and quickly create innovative products with less risk and improved time-to market.”

As a leading provider of networking and multimedia processor solutions, Ubicom delivers communications and media processor and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. Ubicom will utilize Denali’s PureSpec and MMAV products in their in their next generation of multimedia and network processors.

“SoC design and verification teams look to Denali to provide the industry’s best-in-class verification solutions to accelerate the pre-silicon design and verification of protocol applications,” states Sanjiv Kumar, director, Verification Products at Denali Software. “We value Ubicom’s trust in Denali and are confident that our predictable protocol verification IP will minimize risks and increase design productivity.”

About Denali’s Verification IP Portfolio
Denali’s best-in-class, standards-based verification IP (VIP) solutions provides more than 500 companies worldwide the latest technology to design and verify complex chip interfaces for communication, consumer, and computing products. Denali's MMAV and PureSpec products are part of a comprehensive VIP portfolio for predictable compliance of memories and protocol interfaces. Denali’s VIP seamlessly integrates into various testbenches, languages, simulators, and is compliant with popular advanced verification methodologies (e.g., OVM, VMM, eRM, etc.). For more details, visit: www.denali.com/purespec and www.denali.com/mmav.