Forte Named Key Supplier in Toshiba's MeP C-based Design Flow

SAN JOSE, Calif . Our success with Cynthesizer
in the H. Cynthesizer is a trademark of
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Software standards for real-time and embedded systems must support
stringent resource , reliability, and timing requirements.org/abstracts
The Program Committee will select presentations for inclusion in
the program and notify authors by Friday, March 11, 2005.

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It is the only behavioral
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About Forte Design Systems
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that
enable design at a higher level of abstraction.org

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"We encourage our employees to contribute to influential industry groups
and applaud Bhasker's accomplishments," said Jack Harding, eSilicon 's
chairman, president and CEO.

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In
addition, Toshiba has selected Cynthesizer as a key product in its R-Cube(TM)
C-based methodology, developed to significantly reduce time-to -market for
Toshiba's multimedia SoC.

For more information, contact:

Brett Cline Gloria Nichols
Forte Design Systems Launch Marketing
978 -264-1855 650-851-6919
gloria@launchm.com

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About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG)
supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which
maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the
basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and
Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). Bhasker,
the company's architect, has been awarded the Meritorious Service
Certificate by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Computer Society, the world's leading association of computing
professionals. Prior
to joining eSilicon, Bhasker was a distinguished member of technical staff
at Bell Laboratories. "The Society plays an important role in
the development of professionals in the electronics industry, and I am
proud of my long-standing involvement and contributions to its programs. It offers a full range of
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This new
endorsement augments Forte 's selection as a key supplier for Toshiba's Media
embedded Processor (MeP) SoC design platform flow in 2006. For more information, visit
http://www.----The Object
Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced a call for
presentations for its workshop on Distributed Object Computing for
Real -time and Embedded Systems.
Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a
brief (up to 600 word) abstract of their proposed workshop
presentation by February 25, 2005 using this web form:
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264 design clearly demonstrates that a C-based design flow is not
only viable but fundamental as we move to 90nm and beyond. Cynthesizer is silicon-proven with uncompromising
quality of results that often exceed hand-coded RTL.co. The workshop will take place July
11-14, 2005 in Washington, DC, USA. Headquartered in Needham, MA,
USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership,
not-for -profit computer industry specifications consortium.

A 20-year veteran of the semiconductor industry , Bhasker has authored
nineteen books and numerous articles on the topics of hardware description
languages and high-level synthesis algorithms for electronic design.6 (VHDL RTL synthesis
standard ) and IEEE Standard 1364.1 (Verilog RTL synthesis standard).esilicon.

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About Forte Cynthesizer
Forte's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the time needed to create
complex chips and systems by automatically generating high-quality RTL designs
from high-level algorithms.

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The high-level design code was then processed by Forte's Cynthesizer,
which quickly generated multiple RTL implementations. Agarwal, Victor Berman , Sartaj K. eSilicon is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with offices in Allentown, PA, New
Providence (Murray Hill), NJ, Shin Yokohama, Japan, and Bucharest, Romania.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass. "His technical expertise and leadership skills
are not only important to eSilicon 's continued success, but are also
recognized by the broader electronics industry through his work with the
IEEE Computer Society."

About eSilicon Corporation

eSilicon designs and manufactures custom integrated circuits for the
world's leading electronics companies.

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All workshop and call details are available
at http://www. The
challenge is particularly acute for middleware standards, which have
to cope with performance and reliability variations of the underlying
infrastructure.

He holds a Ph.

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Call for Presentations: OMG's Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real -time and Embedded Systems; July 11-14 2005 Washington DC

In this context, the workshop Program Committee is
seeking proposals for presentations of experience reports,
evaluations, case studies or research papers relevant to:

Real-time systems
Embedded systems
Fault-tolerant systems
High-availability systems
Safety-critical systems
Software-defined radio systems
Embedded secure systems

Technologies relevant to this workshop include (but are not
limited to):

-- Real-time middleware, including real-time CORBA(R)
-- Real-time Java
-- Real-time operating systems, including Real-time Linux
-- Middleware for embedded and resource-constrained systems
-- Modeling notations (including Unified Modeling Language(R)
(UML(R)))
-- Model-Driven approaches , including MDA(R)
-- Design methods (including Agile methods)
-- Component platforms (including the CORBA Component Model)
-- Novel transport mechanisms
-- High-level real-time programming models
-- Service-oriented architectures Multiple Independent Levels of
Security (MILS) architecture

In addition, proposals for panel sessions in any of the above
areas are also welcomed.

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Cynthesizer is currently in
production at 15 of the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies
worldwide . More information on
Toshiba's R-Cube methodology can be found at
http://www.

PRESS RELEASE eSilicon 's J. Bhasker Honored With IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Certificate

Chosen from nominations submitted by professionals from the electronics and
computer industries, winners of the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious
Service Certificate are recognized for significant service to any
Society-sponsored activity. The company serves both system OEMs
and fabless semiconductor companies who apply custom silicon to create
innovative new products.

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general manager, SoC research + development center, Semiconductor Company,
Toshiba Corporation.com/. Founded in
1946 and today the largest society within the IEEE, this not-for-profit
organization is the authoritative provider of technical information and
services for computing communities worldwide.computer.

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"Reducing the time from algorithms to specific SoC implementations is a
critical factor for Toshiba's MeP SoC platform ," said Tohru Furuyama, Ph.D. Forte's innovative behavioral
synthesis technology allows design teams creating complex electronic systems
from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs to significantly reduce
their overall design and verification time.toshiba.omg. He has
been a major technical contributor to the IEEE Computer Society since 1989,
most recently as chairman for the organization's influential Verilog
Synthesis Interoperability and VHDL Synthesis Interoperability Working
Groups that developed the IEEE Standard 1076. Sahni and Ron Waxman.

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design using Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioral synthesis product.
Toshiba designed its H. The final workshop agenda and registration
details will be available by Tuesday, March 15, 2005 and posted at
http://www.

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More
information about OMG can be found at www.

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Toshiba Uses Forte Cynthesizer to Accelerate Completion of H.264 Multimedia Design

"Cynthesizer is providing a tremendous competitive edge to
design teams at Toshiba by allowing them to accomplish more in less time,
while improving their quality of results.

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Forte 's position as the industry-leading behavioral synthesis provider,
along with their repeated production design successes at Toshiba and other
major semiconductor and systems vendors, were key factors in Toshiba's
decision to select Cynthesizer for the R-Cube design methodology.

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"Cynthesizer's ability to rapidly produce multiple high-
quality RTL implementations from a single C++ source makes it a critical
factor in our new R-Cube high-level design flow. Forte is headquartered at 100
Century Center Court, San Jose, CA 95112. The call for presentations runs
until February 25, 2005. Final
presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters
by Monday, June 13, 2005 .D.

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ForteDS. CORBA, the Common Object Request
Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of
millions of deployments running today.omg.esilicon.org.

eSilicon and the eSilicon logo are registered trademarks of eSilicon
Corporation.

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264 image processing hardware using ANSI-C++ and
SystemC. By designing at a higher
level of abstraction and using Cynthesizer to automate the RTL implementation,
Toshiba was able to reduce its overall design time by significantly reducing
time-to-RTL, improving verification performance, and removing downstream
synthesis and backend issues while maintaining high quality of results."
"We're extremely proud of the recent success at Toshiba on such a complex
design," said Brett Cline, vice president of Forte's customer operations and
services group.

R-Cube is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation.omg. Proposals are welcomed for half-day or
full-day tutorials on established techniques and standards in any of
the areas touched on in this call.omg.
eSilicon Corporation, a leading fabless
supplier of custom integrated circuits, today announced that J. eSilicon designs and ships custom chips for a wide
variety of markets and applications, including high-volume MP3 players,
home gateways, complex storage networks, and high-speed communications
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"I am honored to join the distinguished group of previous Meritorious
Service Certificate winners and to be recognized for my work with the IEEE
Computer Society," said Bhasker.

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Each implementation was
specifically targeted for Toshiba's SoC design process , resulting in reduced
downstream problems with logic synthesis and layout. in Computer and Information Sciences
from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Master's degree in
Computer Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

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, Forte Design Systems today
announced that Toshiba Corporation has completed an advanced multimedia H.jp/eng/r_cube/.
For more information, please visit www.