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GUC Adds Apache’s RedHawk to their 65nm Signoff Flow

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 7, 2007 – Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power signoff and a provider of complete silicon integrity platform solutions for system-on-chip (SoC), analog, and system designs, today announced that Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), a leading SoC design foundry, has added RedHawk power integrity solution as part of their signoff requirements for all designs at 65nm and below. Over the past two years, RedHawk helped GUC perform dynamic IR prevention prior to tape-out, which resulted in very few yield losses due to IR drop.

“Meeting customers’ needs in deep-submicron technology has been our main focus. Apache’s power integrity solutions deliver accuracy, performance, and ease-of-use required for identifying and correcting difficult design challenges prior to tape-out,” said Jim Lai, president and COO of GUC. “By adding Apache’s RedHawk into the signoff flow, we will provide an even better quality and robust flow than ever, and will have a higher degree of confidence in achieving silicon success.”

“Power signoff has become a must have requirement as designs move towards 65nm and below,” said Dian Yang, vice president of product management at Apache. “RedHawk has been adopted by 80% of the top IDM and fabless semiconductor companies as their power signoff solution. We are pleased to be a part of GUC’s signoff flow and to continue our collaboration in meeting upcoming challenges in low power design analysis and optimization.”

Apache Design Solutions, NSPICE, RedHawk, PsiWinder, Sahara, Sentinel, and Vectorless Dynamic are trademarks of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.

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