Huawei Symantec Technologies Selects PerfectVIPs' Storage Verification IPs (VIPs) for New Product Development

Leading Chinese Storage Company integrates PerfectVIPs’ VIP Solution to Verification Flow

Santa Clara, CA & Shanghai, China — May 25, 2011 — PerfectVIPs, a leading provider of design Verification IP (VIP) solutions, today announced that Huawei Symantec, the newly formed joint venture, has selected PerfectVIPs’ storage verification solutions to help in the verification of their next generation product development. The Genie-series of VIP storage solutions with the combination of the comprehensive test suite brings together a complete and comprehensive verification solution that will help Huawei Symantec shorten their development cycle, reduce design risk and increase the quality of their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.

Huawei Symantec provides technologically-advanced products and comprehensive solutions for the security and storage market. It is critical for them to continue to drive for greater innovation and quality. PerfectVIPs’ broad portfolio of industry leading Verification IP (VIP) parallels this goal and offers unmatched features, functions and capabilities to help verify chip designs. PerfectVIPs’ storage and interface VIP products are being used by industry leading chip providers to guarantee their compliance to industry based specifications like SAS, SATA, USB, PCIe and ONFi. PerfectVIPs has positioned itself for rapid global growth by employing a worldwide team of domain experts, providing superior technical support and deploying state of the art verification technologies.

"Huawei Symantec is pleased to select PerfectVIPs for their storage VIP products and expects the relationship to further help drive toward excellence in our product development, helping us to deliver products faster with perfect quality." said Ruiqi Fan, Vice President of HS and President of Storage product line.

After rigorous evaluation, Huawei Symantec selected the PerfectVIPs products based on their robust testing of the design under test, the completeness of the product offering, the superior quality of results, and excellent application support. PerfectVIPs was able to provide a comprehensive storage verification solution for their SoC design. Huawei Symantec determined that the tightly integrated tools – Verification Engine, Interface Inspector and Compliance Test Suite – provided an easy to use yet powerful verification platform that will lead to an obvious boost in productivity.

"It is a pleasure to team with leading storage technologists like Huawei Symantec to help them carve a faster, lower cost and higher quality path to Perfect Silicon," said Kevin K. Yee, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PerfectVIPs. "With verification accounting for nearly 70% of the development cycle, we are excited to bring a time-saving and cost-effective turnkey solution to developers that would otherwise need to invest thousands of additional hours into their design verification processes."

About PerfectVIPs

PerfectVIPs is a world-leading provider of Verification IP (VIP) products, delivering the fastest and most effective verification solutions for interface, storage and mobile applications – USB, PCIe, SAS, SATA, ONFi, AMBA and more. PerfectVIPs accelerates the verification process and delivers higher quality, reliability and productivity while lowering risk, cost and verification delays to complex designs – IP, FPGA, SoC and ASIC development.

PerfectVIPs’ innovative verification technology solutions include an intelligent Verification Engine, a powerful Interface Inspector, and a comprehensive Test Suite. With a global team of engineers with strong domain expertise, deep verification experience and superior service, PerfectVIPs provides the Right Tools so you can have the Perfect Chip. For more information, please visit www.perfectvips.com.

About Huawei Symantec

Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei Symantec) is a leading provider of network security and storage appliance solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. A joint venture of Huawei and Symantec, Huawei Symantec combines Huawei’s expertise in telecoms network infrastructure and Symantec’s leadership in security and storage software to provide world-class solutions that address the ever-changing needs in network security and storage for enterprises. Huawei Symantec’s focus on continuous customer-centric innovations is enabled by R&D centers distributed in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hangzhou in China, as well as in Silicon Valley in the U.S. The company’s global customers and partners are supported by sales and service centers around the world. More information is available at www.huaweisymantec.com.