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February 22, 2006 07:41 AM US Pacific Timezone

Carbon Design Systems Exhibits & Hosts Virtual System Prototyping Methodology Session & Luncheon at DATE in Munich

Design Automation and Test in Europe 2006
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Design Systems:
Who:
Carbon Design Systems, an innovator in Electronic System Level
(ESL) tools for system validation, based in Waltham, MA.

What:
Carbon's Virtual Prototyping Software

At DATE 2006, Carbon Design Systems is demonstrating its virtual system prototyping software product -- SOC-VSP(TM) -- that allows RTL (Verilog and VHDL) designs to be easily imported into an
ARM(R) RealView(R) SoC Designer environment. SOC-VSP enables multiple levels of design abstraction to be combined in a singlesystem model. Models can include: 'C', SystemC, RTL, processor models, and transaction-level models. SOC-VSP is used by system architects and software developers to validate their chip architecture and embedded firmware on a hardware accurate model.

Carbon's Technical Seminar & Luncheon
A Virtual System Prototyping Methodology for ARM Processor-based
SoCs

Carbon and ARM will present a joint seminar on electronic system level (ESL) tools and an accompanying methodology for system-on-chip (SoC) design that includes architectural modeling, performance analysis, firmware development, and system validation. The session will show how Carbon's SOC-VSP and ARM's RealView SoC Designer are used to develop and validate ARM processor-based SoC designs. The methodology and tools presented in the seminar enable early architecture and firmware validation using cycle-accurate, transaction-level models in a high-performance system simulation environment.

When/Where:
Exhibit
Tuesday, 7th March 10.00 - 19.00
Wednesday, 8th March 10.00 - 18.00
Thursday, 9th March 10.00 - 17.00
Stand: A18

Technical Seminar & Luncheon
Tuesday, 7th March 13.00 - 14.00
Room 11
ICM, MESSE Munich, Germany

Appointments, Information & Technical Session Registration:

To make an appointment with Carbon at DATE, please contact: Andy
Ladd at andy@carbondesignsystems.com.

To reserve a spot for Carbon's Technical Seminar and Luncheon,
please contact John Emmitt at johne@carbondesignsystems.com.

For more information on Carbon Design System, please visit,
ww.carbondesignsystems.com.
For more information about DATE, please visit
www.date-conference.com.

About Carbon

Carbon is delivering a high-performance virtual system prototyping solution that enables a system prototype to be rapidly assembled and functionally validated on the desktop months before silicon. Carbon's new software approach allows multiple levels of abstraction to be validated together including C, SystemC, Verilog and VHDL RTL, IP cores, transaction-level, and instruction-level models. The key to SOC-VSP is silicon accuracy and performance; the ability to execute billions of cycles and boot embedded operating systems, all with desktop software.

The company is headquartered at 375 Totten Pond Road, Suite 100/200, Waltham, MA. 02451. Telephone: +1.781.890.1500, Fax: +1.781.890.1711, Email: info@CarbonDesignSystems.com, Corporate website: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

Carbon Design Systems and SOC-VSP are trademarks of Carbon Design Systems, Incorporated.

ARM and RealView are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; AXYS GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Physical IP, Inc.

All other companies and products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.