May 5th 2004

Silicon Interfaces, a high-end Design Services provider company for leading Semiconductor, Systems, Telecom, Wireless and Optical Networking as well as Wired for LAN, WAN and the Metro, Fabric Channel Interconnect, Data Communications, Embedded Systems, and Storage Companies, announced an IP Partnership Program through their business unit, Silicon Cores — Core to the Intelligent System.

Silicon Cores' key focus has been to provide efficient, reusable and scalable functional IP and Verification solutions for SOC, ASIC and FPGA using the Open Hardware Description and Verification Languages.

By incorporating Cadence tools in Design Methodology flow, the IPs will benefit better optimization and the customer for both the companies shall have access to growing number of reusable IPs.

The Cores are all qualified and verified by using Verilog or VHDL Test Benches along with Temporal and Protocol checkers. Wherever applicable test suites from certification bodies are applied.

Ethernet MAC Controller

USB 2.0 Controller

Infiniband LPE

SONET STS-1 Framer

IEEE 1394 Link Core

Bluetooth Baseband

UART

8051 Microcontroller

8530 Serial Controller

7990 LAN Controller

"The Cadence IP Partnership Program has helped Silicon Interfaces' large team of functional verification and design experts rapidly ensure Design Methodology to incorporate Cadence Tools and this advantage to identify larger market share," said Subhas Basu, CEO. "Silicon Interfaces is looking to leverage expertise in this platform with its growing global customer base."

"Based on Cadence tools significant performance and optimization capabilities, the Silicon Cores Program will now make available to the market optimal code capabilities" said the Program Manger, Silicon Cores. "This Partnership is an important landmark in offering the customer better Tool Flow in the Design Methodology".