Nascentric Joins ARM Connected Community

AUSTIN, Texas--April 17, 2006--Nascentric today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Nascentric will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered® products to market faster.

"Large SOC designs require the tight integration and rapid verification of well-characterized, high-quality IP," said Dennis George, director of marketing for Nascentric. "Nascim, with its transistor-level simulation capabilities, enables design teams to accurately simulate, characterize and verify larger, more complex circuits up to ten times faster than previously possible."

Nascim is the first in a series of advanced simulation and analysis products being developed by Nascentric. Employing several patent-pending approaches, Nascim accurately simulates at the transistor-level while rapidly verifying at the full-chip level. Nascim's innovative approach to current-based device modeling and simulation helps accurately reflect the actual current flow in CMOS circuitry, thus enhancing overall accuracy when simulating and verifying nanometer designs.

The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions.

The ARM Connected Community also enables Nascentric to utilize the ARM Connected Community logo, which is an easy way for customers to recognize that Nascentric has proven their commitment and expertise in support of the ARM architecture.

"By joining the ARM Connected Community, which now comprises more than 300 companies, Nascentric increases the large portfolio of skills, products and services that are centered around the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide," said Vanessa Briggs, Partnership Marketing Manager, ARM.

For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit http://www.arm.com/community.

About Nascentric

Nascentric is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Nascentric delivers state-of-the-art simulation and analysis solutions addressing nanometer design issues related to timing, power and signal integrity. Our products allow designers to quickly simulate, analyze and verify larger and more complex circuits, improve design quality, and facilitate higher yields. The Nascentric management team brings decades of combined electrical engineering and electronic design automation experience to bear on the challenge of delivering full-chip simulation and analysis focused on eliminating silicon re-spins due to nanometer effects.