Virage
Logic Expands in China with Distributor Relationships
FREMONT, Calif, and SHANGHAI,
China--March 5, 2007--To better service the
company's established China customer base and rapidly
growing China fabless semiconductor market, Virage Logic
Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry's
trusted IP partner and pioneer in Silicon Aware IP(TM),
today announced distributor relationship with Hyperform
Technologies. The distributor
engagement establish a direct sales and support channel to
better service Virage Logic's long standing fabless
customers and provide a solid infrastructure to service the
rapidly growing China fabless market. Initial sales and
support services will be focused at consumer and large,
government sponsored companies concentrated in the Beijing,
Shenzen and Shanghai technology regions.
"As the semiconductor industry's trusted
IP partner to more than 300 companies, we've seen first hand
the industry's move to a more specialized, fabless model,
and the resulting demand for silicon proven, technical
differentiated semiconductor IP," said Brani Buric, senior
director of strategic business solutions for Virage Logic.
"China represents the most rapidly growing fabless
semiconductor market and we look forward to working with
regional and technology experts Hyperform to
best service this important market."
"Virage Logic's broad portfolio of silicon
proven IP is ideally suited to meet the cost, density,
performance and power requirements of China's chip
designers, particularly in the rapidly growing consumer and
graphics applications markets," said Jianjun Liu, chief
executive officer (CEO) of Hyperform Technologies.
For more than ten years, Virage Logic's
silicon proven semiconductor IP has been a preferred choice
for designers worldwide. The company's IPrima(R) Foundation
semiconductor IP platforms, comprising embedded memories,
logic libraries, and I/Os, enable design engineers to
expedite the creation of next generation products by
addressing the increasingly complex task of identifying and
obtaining the semiconductor IP needed to produce successful,
on-time products. Virage Logic's products and support
services help system-on-chip (SoC) designers meet critical
design requirements including reducing design time, silicon
area, and design risks, while boosting performance and
enhancing manufacturing yields.
About Hyperform Technologies
Hyperform Technologies Co., Ltd.
(HTC) is a privately held high-tech company in IC and
electronic design industry in China. The company was founded
by senior professionals in July, 2003. Our goal is to become
a leading local provider for Silicon IP, EDA solutions and
design methodology services, and meanwhile we are committed
to make important contributions to local electronic design
industry. For more information go to:
www.hyperform-da.com.
About Virage Logic Corporation
Founded in 1996, Virage Logic
Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL) rapidly established itself as a
technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded
memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex
integrated circuits. Today, as the semiconductor industry's
trusted IP partner, the company is a global leader in IP
platforms comprising embedded memories, logic, and I/Os, and
is pioneering the development of a new class of IP called
Silicon Aware IP(TM) Silicon Aware IP tightly integrates
Physical IP (memory, logic and I/Os) with the embedded test,
diagnostic, and repair capabilities of Infrastructure IP to
help ensure manufacturability and optimized yield at the
advanced process nodes. Virage Logic's highly differentiated
product portfolio provides higher performance, lower power,
higher density and optimal yield to foundries, integrated
device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless customers who
develop products for the consumer, communications and
networking, hand-held and portable, and computer and
graphics markets. The company uses its FirstPass-Silicon(TM)
Characterization Lab for certain products to help ensure
high quality, reliable IP across a wide range of foundries
and process technologies. The company also prides itself on
providing superior customer support and was named the 2006
Customer Service Leader of the Year in the Semiconductor IP
Market by Frost & Sullivan. Headquartered in Fremont,
California, Virage Logic has R&D, sales and support offices
worldwide. For more information, visit
www.viragelogic.com.
SynTest Establishes Operations
in China and Appoints Hyperform as Distributor
News From£º
SUNNYVALE, Calif.¡ª(BUSINESS
WIRE)¡ªJan. 22, 2004¡ª SynTest Technologies, Inc., the leading
supplier of Design-for-Test (DFT) tools and services for
semiconductor integrated chips (ICs) announced that the
Company has opened a new center in Shanghai, for R&D
and customer support. The company has also appointed Hyperform
Technologies Co., Ltd. as its distributor to service the
growing IC design market in China.
SynTest's products
improve an electronic design's testability and fault coverage,
which result in not only reduced defect levels with lower
tester time, but also reduced time-to-market (TTM).
"The growing interest
in our DFT products and services, and the continuing development
as well as enhancement of our products requires that we continue
to add to our R&D staff," noted Dr. L.T. Wang, SynTest
President and CEO.
Dr. Wang remarked,
"China, with its rapidly expanding IC design market and
fabless design houses, has become an important market for
us. We have appointed Hyperform as our distributor for China.
Hyperform -- led by James Liu, ex-Director of Sales at Cadence
China, a successful and seasoned professional in the field
of electronic design and EDA -- was a logical choice for us."
He added, "As we firmly believe that technical support
is an important pillar of our success, expanding our technical
support resources was a given simultaneous step."
"Today, with more
and more IC design companies in China doing high-end designs,
it is the right time to promote the DFT concept to make their
designs into reliable products," remarked James Liu,
CEO, Hyperform. He further noted, "As a startup company,
I want to bring the best DFT technology and services to our
customers. SynTest, who has been playing a major role in the
DFT arena for 14 years, and offers the whole DFT solution,
from scan, compressed scan, to logic-BIST, was our natural
choice."
About SynTest
SynTest Technologies,
Inc., established 1990, develops and markets advanced design-for-test
(DFT) and design-for-debug/diagnosis (DFD) tools throughout
the world, to semiconductor companies, system houses, and
design service providers. The company's products improve an
electronic design's testability and fault coverage and result
in reduced defect levels and reduced slippage in time-to-market
(TTM). The products also reduce overall design and test costs,
by helping to reduce design iterations as well as the time
and reloads on automatic test equipment (ATE). These products
include tools for logic BIST, memory BIST, boundary-scan synthesis,
DFT testability analysis, VirtualScan synthesis and ATPG with
XtremeCompact test vectors, concurrent fault simulation, silicon
debug and diagnosis. The company, headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif., has offices in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China, and
has distributors in Europe and Asia including Israel. More
information is available at www.syntest.com.
About Hyperform
Hyperform Technologies
Co., Ltd. (HTC) based in Shanghai, is a privately held company
with a mission to provide major brand EDA solutions and design
methodology locally to promote the electronic design industry
in China. More information is available at: http://www.hyperform-da.com/.
SynTest, VirtualScan,
and XtremeCompact are trademarks of SynTest Technologies,
Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective
owners.
Acronyms:
ASIC: Application Specific DFT: Design-for-Test
Integrated Circuits
ATE: Automatic Test Equipment DFD: Design-for-Debug/Diagnosis
IC: Integrated Circuits SoC: System-on-Chip
ATPG: Automatic Test Program EDA: Electronic Design Automation
Generation
BIST: Built-In Self-Test TTM: Time-to-Market
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Contact:
SynTest Technologies
Nayan Pradhan, 408-720-9956 Ext. 301
nayan@syntest.com
or
Hyperform Technologies
James Liu, +86-21-5356 0140
jameslgj@hyperform-da.com
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