Arasan Joins Atrenta's SpyLinks Partner Program

Adopts “SpyGlass® Clean” flow for IP Development and Customer Handoff

San Jose, California – February  17, 2010 - Atrenta Inc., the leading provider of Early Design Closure® solutions, and Arasan Chip Systems, a leading provider of reusable IP cores for electronic design, today announced that Arasan has joined Atrenta’s SpyLinks partner program. Arasan will also adopt Atrenta’s SpyGlass RTL platform for development and handoff of “SpyGlass Clean” IP.

“Atrenta’s SpyGlass platform has been instrumental in helping us reach the stringent quality goals we set for our broad IP portfolio,” stated Chandan Egbert, senior director of engineering at Arasan. “SpyGlass has given our engineers the ability to find and fix critical issues early in the development cycle and deliver high quality IP to our customers. We look forward to a tighter collaboration with Atrenta to help our customers integrate Arasan’s IP more efficiently and get to market faster.”

“We launched the “SpyGlass Clean” initiative in 2008 as a major focus of our SpyLinks partner program,” said Piyush Sancheti, senior director of business development at Atrenta. “We welcome Arasan to this fast-growing community of semiconductor supply chain members that have partnered with Atrenta. The SpyGlass RTL platform has enabled Arasan to measure and drive the quality of their IP and provide a smooth handoff to their key customers, many of whom are our customers as well.”

Atrenta’s SpyLinks industry alliance program is focused on facilitating of the various members of the semiconductor supply chain. SpyLinks leverages Atrenta's industry standard SpyGlass product suite and the company's emerging 1Team® product suite to provide comprehensive support for communication of design quality and design intent between these participating members. The ultimate goal of the program is to promote the benefits of Early Design Closure® throughout the semiconductor community.

About Atrenta

Atrenta is the leading provider of Early Design Closure® solutions to radically improve design efficiency throughout the IC design flow. Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and methodologies to capture design intent, explore implementation alternatives, validate RTL and optimize designs early, before expensive and time-consuming detailed implementation. With over 150 customers, including the world’s top 10 semiconductor companies, Atrenta provides the most comprehensive solution in the industry for Early Design Closure. For more information, visit www.atrenta.com. Atrenta, Right from the Start!

About Arasan

Arasan Chip Systems based in San Jose, CA, USA, is a world-leading supplier of SoC Intellectual Property Solutions, with a successful 15 year track record. Arasan delivers technology-leading IP focused on Bus Interfaces such as MIPI, SDIO, USB, PCIe, Ethernet, and Flash Storage Solutions of NAND, eMMC, SD, CF+, UFS and more, to the global electronics market. Arasan’s Total Solution approach starts with Technology Consulting using our domain expertise and includes all the building blocks required for technology adoption- RTL IP cores, Verification IP, Analog Mixed Signal IP Cores, Portable Software Drivers / Stacks, Protocol Test & Analyzers, HDK’s, and associated design services. Arasan Total IP Solution enables the rapid adoption of emerging technologies reducing our customers’ time to market while minimizing risk and ensuring compliance to respective standards.