YogiTech Joins Verisity's Verification Alliance Program

PISA, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 2001--YogiTech S.r.l., the independent IC design services company based in Pisa, Italy, today announced it has joined the Verisity (Nasdaq:VRST - news) Verification Alliance partnership programme. YogiTech is now qualified to use Verisity's Specman Elite in its consulting services design flow and is offering training courses to other companies wishing to apply the Verisity tools. Also, as part of its consulting services offering, YogiTech has resources available to write eVC(TM) (e Verification Component) code for companies to verify their design databases.

"The Verisity approach to verification is one of the most powerful advances in EDA flow we have seen for a while," said Silvano Motto, the President and CEO of YogiTech. "We will use it to produce comprehensive, re-usable verification components that we, or our customers, can apply to their design databases many times over when blocks are re-used. Confidence in HDL source behaviour is increased significantly and we expect to win new services and training business as many IDMs and OEMs close to us are adopting similar verification strategies."

"YogiTech's wealth of experience will directly complement Verisity's verification methodology and technology offerings," said Coby Hanoch, vice president and general manager for European Operations for Verisity. "Verification reuse is a critical aspect of verification today and our partnership with YogiTech will help us meet this need. We're pleased to welcome Yogitech to the Verification Alliance program."

About YogiTech

YogiTech S.r.l. is an independent IC design services company located near Pisa in Italy. The Company offers both digital and analogue design capabilities, plus modelling, synthesis, test and layout services using latest EDA and workstations. YogiTech's disciplined yet flexible approach to its work delivers high quality results to customers that need competitive and quick turn-around IC and SoC designs. YogiTech designs for IDMs and OEMs that it can support with IP acquisition, test and foundry management. See www.yogitech.com

Contact:
     Verisity Design Inc.
     Jennifer Bilsey, 650/934-6823
     jen@verisity.com
     or
     YogiTech S.r.l.
     Silvano Motto, +39 050 861412
     silvano.motto@yogitech.com