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Synopsys Speeds Equivalence Checking by 2X at Nuvoton

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Nuvoton Technology Corp (TSE:4919), affiliate of Winbond Electronics Corp, standardized on Formality® equivalence checking to accelerate verification of its Super I/O chips, displacing their existing solution. Using Formality, Nuvoton designers were able to complete equivalence checking out of the box twice as fast, allowing them to meet their challenging design and schedule goals. This success is now driving broad deployment of Formality at Nuvoton.

“Time to market is critical to our business,” said Chun-Ming Chang assistant vice president at Nuvoton. “Formality delivered a 2X boost to our equivalence checking process and has helped us meet our critical tapeout schedule. It was easy to learn and use in our DC Ultra™ synthesis flow. We have standardized on Formality for all of our future designs.”

Equivalence checking is performed throughout the design process, with failures often requiring multiple iterations that can take weeks to resolve. To accelerate the verification process, Formality is designed to work seamlessly with DC Ultra RTL synthesis, eliminating the need for the user to manually create complex setup files and bear the risk of erroneous verification. In addition, new technology in Formality is designed to analyze each failing point in a design and recommend step-by-step guidance to help the user quickly pinpoint and resolve issues saving many hours of manual debugging. Formality also includes an intuitive flow-based user interface to guide the user through the verification process, improving designer productivity and accelerating the time to successful verification.

“Our customers are required to develop complex chips while reducing design schedules in order to stay competitive in the marketplace,” said Ahsan Bootehsaz, vice president of engineering, design analysis and sign-off at Synopsys. “We are committed to developing groundbreaking technologies in Formality that offer customers like Nuvoton the best turn-around-time for their most complex and highly optimized designs.”

About Nuvoton

Nuvoton Technology Corp.(TSE:4919), a leading IC company headquartered in Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park, was established in 2008 as a spin-out of Winbond Electronics’ Logic business group and IPO in 2010. Nuvoton Technology focuses on the R&D and sales in two main product lines: consumer electronics ICs and computer ICs, and leads in global market shares of speech ICs and computer related application ICs. Nuvoton owns a six-inch wafer fab, featuring in special niche process. Besides in-house IC products, the wafer fab also provides part of its capacity for foundry services. Nuvoton Technology provides high cost performance products for its customers by means of flexible technology innovation capabilities, full product solutions and excellent integration of technology synergy. Nuvoton offers superior services based on existing solid foundation and continues to realize its vision: “Be an indispensable partner to industry leaders.” Nuvoton values the long-term relationship with its partners and customers; the company has established subsidiaries in the USA, China and Israel to strengthen regional customer support and global management. Visit Nuvoton online at http://www.nuvoton.com/.

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys’ comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has approximately 70 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.

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Xilinx Consumer Video Kit Drives Innovation for 3DTV and Other Digital Displays with More Bandwidth and Standards Support

LAS VEGAS, JAN. 6, 2011 Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show a new version of its popular Spartan®-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit that gives systems designers a complete development platform for easily tapping into the flexibility and real-time video processing capabilities of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Co-developed with and distributed by Tokyo Electron Device, the Consumer Video Kit supports the latest serial digital TV interfaces, including DisplayPort 1.1a, V-by-One®HS, HDMITM 1.4a (now supporting 3DTV) and LVDS of up to 1.05 Gbps, to help original equipment manufacturers meet the challenges of shorter market windows and focus on the innovation and delivery of stunning 3D, Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), Quad HD (4K2K resolution) and many other digital display technologies.

“New consumer video technologies like 3DTV and the standards that support them are proliferating like never before as competition and innovation in digital television development pushes the limits of video processing and bandwidth,” said Aaron Behman, Senior Marketing Manager, Consumer Segment, at Xilinx. “FPGAs have already made the delivery of 3DTV to consumers possible and are being used by leading manufacturers in their development of new generations of digital TV technologies and features.”

At the heart of the Consumer Video Kit is a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, a low-cost, low- power programmable logic device that designers can use to simulate video algorithms in silicon during the development phase and then move into production without having to worry about coding video interface infrastructure. Spartan-6 FPGAs deliver 30% lower power and 15% faster performance than competing FPGAs to support emerging technologies such as locally dimmed LED and super-high resolution 4K2K (Quad HD), which are driving up the bandwidth requirements for next-generation displays.

“Manufacturers of consumer video are challenged to develop innovative 3D and other display technology applications while reducing the overall power consumption of their end equipment,” said Masoud Beheshti, worldwide marketing manager, Power Management, TI. “Through this continued collaboration with Xilinx and Tokyo Electron, designers can easily implement TI’s digital power management solutions to simulate power consumption in real- time in their FPGA-based designs.”

“Aiptek selected Xilinx Spartan FPGAs to get to market first with the world’s only pocket camcorder that captures 2D and 3D in high definition,” said FH Cheng, Aiptek Vice President of Operations. “While others shoot in lower, VHS-type resolutions, our i2 3D-HD 720 Camcorder captures pristine quality, 720p HD video – the highest resolution for a 3D camcorder priced below $1,000. Xilinx met all of our performance, cost and power requirements, along with the flexibility to support new and evolving video standards. The company’s strategy to offer a complete Targeted Design Platform for digital display design gives companies like Aiptek a fast path to low-cost innovation. Building upon our success with the i2 3D, we’re planning to support full HD in 1080p with a larger screen with our next-generation camcorder.”

Xilinx will be demonstrating the Aiptek camcorder and other customer innovations at CES Suite #MP25333.

Xilinx Consumer Video Kit Drives Innovation for 3DTV and other Digital Displays

The Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit 2.0 is one of many market and application- specific Targeted Design Platforms from Xilinx and its network of third-party vendors that provide system designers with simpler and smarter methodologies for creating FPGA-based system-on-chip solutions. Targeted Design Platforms enable software and hardware designers to leverage open standards, common design methodologies, development tools, and run-time platforms so they can spend less time developing the infrastructure of an application and more time building differentiating features into their products. In addition to domain- optimized silicon devices, these platforms include IP (intellectual property) cores, design environments and reference designs, along with a base set of digital audio/video development boards and industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Cards (FMCs) supporting specific video interfaces (1.05 Gbps LVDS, DisplayPort 1.1a (Tx/Rx), V-by-One HS and HDMI 1.4a).

The Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit has been refreshed since its introduction at the CES 2010 as part of Xilinx and Tokyo Electron Device’s continuous efforts to improve the out-of-the-box experience for designers. In addition to HDMI 1.4a support for immediate 3D development and new power-management modules from Texas Instruments, the Consumer Video Kit 2.0 increases video processing bandwidth in several ways, including:

Multi channels of 1.05 Gbps LVDS DDR3 memory for frame buffering with memory bus increased from 32bits to 48bits FMC user I/Os increased from 250 to 312, providing access to increased bandwidth For more information about Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms for Consumer

applications, including a video demonstration of the Consumer Video Kit, please visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/consumer/index.htm.

“The Xilinx Consumer Video Kit supports the need for development environments

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that enable designers to stay on schedule as standards such as DisplayPort 1.1a and V-by-One HS evolve,” said Randy Lawson, Manager and Principal Analyst, Display and Consumer Electronics at iSuppli. “Development platforms such as the Xilinx Consumer Video Kit 2.0 help to enable the adoption of FPGAs, allowing new features to be introduced into consumer electronic products sooner than fully integrated solutions would allow, due to the expense often incurred when transitioning SoC solutions to smaller geometries below 90nm.”

Pricing & Availability

The Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit 2.0 is available for order entry today from Xilinx Alliance Program member Tokyo Electron Device under the Inrevium brand name. Designers can purchase the entry-level foundation kit with LVDS and FPGA Mezzanine Connection (FMC) support for $1,395. The fully featured Consumer Video Kit Pro 2.0 which includes HDMI 1.4a TX & RX FMCs, DisplayPort, V-by-One HS, & LVDS FMC support is priced at $3,395. FMC cards supporting USB 3.0 and SATA Gen 2 are scheduled to be available at the end of Q1 2011. Please visithttp://www.xilinx.com/esp/consumer/index.htm for more information.

About Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs

The Spartan-6 FPGA family delivers an optimal balance of low risk, low cost, low power, and high performance for cost-sensitive applications; including integrated low power transceivers, memory controllers for higher performance, lower power, and greater productivity. Spartan-6 FPGAs are supported by a broad range Targeted Design Platforms that provide fully integrated and tested hardware, software and IP, and application frameworks to reduce time to market. Spartan-6 FPGAs are available in volume production today with immediate availability. Visit www.xilinx.com/products/spartan6 to learn more.

About Tokyo Electron Device

Tokyo Electron Device is a technical trading firm that provides semiconductor products and business solutions as well as commissioned design and the development of original products. For more information, visit: http://www.teldevice.co.jp/eng/.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/.

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