VeriSilicon Announces ZView Developement Environment for its Industry Standard ZSP Processors

• Robust, Sophisticated, Easy-to-Use IDE and Debug Environment Significantly Reduces Software Development Time.
• Multi-Processor Debugging Capability Supports Industry Trend of Growing SoC Design Complexity

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SHANGHAI, China, September 26, 2006 – VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a leading world class ASIC design foundry and semiconductor IP provider, today announced the immediate availability of ZView, a new software development environment for its popular ZSP architecture. This new product introduces significant enhancements to the VeriSilicon software development kit offering, which includes C-compiler, assembler, linker, debugger, and IDE.

ZView incorporates the industry standard EclipseTM IDE providing ZSP software developers a rich, intuitive environment to quickly build application software. The ZView IDE provides programmers with numerous options such as using either ZSP simulator models or ZSP hardware platforms including remote access to hardware via a TCP/IP connection. The new tool suite easily supports complex debug configurations for multiple ZSP targets with multiple users with fast data access and extensive display capabilities. Also, the ZView Compiler now supports C and C++ programming languages.

“As a total system solution and ASIC provider for our Customers, we recognize the importance of offering robust development environments for our IP solutions. The ZView product introduction is part of VeriSilicon continued commitment to reducing the complexity our customers face getting their products to market”, said Federico Arcelli, Corporate Vice President of Marketing at VeriSilicon.

Availability

ZView supports the full ZSP processor family and is available today. For more information, please contact sales@verisilicon.com.

About ZSP®

ZSP is a family of licensable digital signal processing (DSP) cores and solutions from VeriSilicon. With more than 50 customers worldwide, the ZSP processor architecture enables customer innovation as the DSP of choice in many key vertical markets including 3G wireless handsets, multimedia and networked voice applications. The ZSP portfolio offers a range of software compatible cores delivering performance points that meet the cost, power and efficiency constraints of today’s SoC designs. A number of standard products are also available for VoIP applications. ZSP Solution Partners augment the technology with world-class software tools, EDA modeling support and a large portfolio of application software. ZSP customers include Broadcom, Marvell, IBM, Renesas, Yamaha, Huawei, Datang, Murata, AVID and many other world-class companies. More information is available at www.verisilicon.com/zsp.

About VeriSilicon

VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is a leading world class ASIC design foundry providing libraries, semiconductor IPs, design and turnkey manufacturing services with multi-fab capability and on process technologies down to 90nm. VeriSilicon has achieved first silicon success and entered volume production of many complex, multi-million gates SoCs using the leading wafer foundries in APAC and China. VeriSilicon has operations in US, China, Taiwan, Japan, France, and Korea. Over 500 customers worldwide have licensed VeriSilicon IPs and Standard Design Platforms. In 2005, VeriSilicon was ranked number three in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 China, the top 50 fastest-growing technology companies in China and number six in Deloitte Fast 500 Asia Pacific, the top 500 fastest-growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. VeriSilicon was also named one of the Red Herring 100 Private Companies of Asia, and selected as one of the EE Times 60 Emerging Startups. More information is available at http://www.verisilicon.com/.