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NEC Adopts Apache’s Dynamic Power Sign-off Solution for SoC Designs

San Jose, Calif. – March 31, 2009 – Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power and noise analyses and signoff for chip, package, and system designs, today announced that the Computers Division of NEC Corporation has adopted Apache’s RedHawk, a full-chip dynamic power sign-off solution, for an accurate and high performance analysis and optimization of their SoC designs. NEC selected RedHawk based on its ability to handle large scale, high performance SoC designs for their systems, as well as for its sign-off accuracy and ease-of-use.

“Productivity and reliability are key criteria for our computing systems,” said Koji Saga, department manager at the CAD Engineering Department, Computers Division of NEC. “RedHawk offers fast tool bring-up, robust decoupling capacitance (de-cap) optimization, and comprehensive reporting. With RedHawk, we are able to perform full-chip dynamic analysis with sign-off accuracy of our designs thus improving our productivity and increasing our confidence in tape-out success.”

“We are pleased to have the Computers Division of NEC place their confidence in our dynamic power sign-off solution,” said Dian Yang, senior vice president of product management at Apache. “Growing adoption of our solution within NEC demonstrates Apache’s commitment to providing the best solution to address our customers critical design challenges.”

Apache Design Solutions, CPM, NSPICE, RedHawk, PakSI-E, PsiWinder, Sentinel, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc

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