Denali Elected to Accellera Board of Directors

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Oct. 6, 2006 -- Denali Software, Inc., a leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) products for semiconductor design, today announced its participation in Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on EDA standards. Denali's vice president of marketing, Kevin Silver, has been elected to the Accellera Board of Directors, which now includes representatives from ARM Ltd., Cadence Design Systems, Denali Software, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Intel Corporation, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics, Nokia, Novas Software, Rockwell Collins, Sun Microsystems, and Synopsys.

"Denali is an influential company in the EDA and IP ecosystem, and we are pleased to have them represented in the Accellera Board of Directors," said Shrenik Mehta, chairman of Accellera. "Our ongoing standards efforts will benefit from Denali's active participation and valuable technical expertise."

"Many of our customers are beginning the migration to SystemVerilog, and we want to ensure that we can enable a smooth transition by providing high-quality IP products for design and verification in this new environment," said Kevin Silver, vice president of marketing for Denali. "Accellera addresses critical issues in the electronics community, and has a great reputation of success in establishing key language standards for design and verification, including SystemVerilog. By joining Accellera and participating on the Board of Directors, we are taking an active role in representing the concerns of Denali customers, and driving new and existing standards that are critical to the design community."

About Accellera

Accellera provides design and verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. Accellera has developed seven standards that have been ratified by the IEEE. Accellera's recent successes in advanced design and verification language standards include SystemVerilog and PSL. For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org .

About Denali Software

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 and 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 www.denali.com .