Our acquisition of Electronics Workbench is a
major step forward in making this vision a reality and satisfying the
needs of the design engineering community in industry and academia.
Readers may obtain investment information from the company's
investor relations department by calling 512-683-5090, by sending
e-mail to www.com are trademarks of
National Instruments.

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"ESP has a solid track record at Virage Logic, and we're now standardizing
on it to verify the simulation models for our memories directly against the
SPICE netlists," said Alex Shubat, chief technology officer and vice president
of research and development at Virage Logic. As
a wholly owned subsidiary of NI, Electronics Workbench plans to
continue to develop and offer its complete line of design automation
software and directly support educational initiatives with
uninterrupted support to participating schools.ni.

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The company delivers technology -leading
semiconductor design and verification platforms and IC manufacturing software
products to the global electronics market, enabling the development and
production of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs).ni.

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"The complex design of current and future
systems demands a higher level of integration among design, simulation
and test tools.
For additional information, industry professionals can visit
www. Since 1984, the company has also produced economical products
that are highly effective in educational environments and easily
integrated into engineering curriculum.com) is a technology pioneer and
leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has
changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and
academia approach measurement and automation .

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The increase in productivity enabled Virage Logic to trim the
engineering time needed to complete functional verification of the circuits in
its Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory(TM) compilers from days to hours."
ESP is an equivalency checker for memories that compares a Verilog
simulation model directly to an HSPICE(R) netlist. The Electronics Workbench
flagship product, Multisim circuit simulation software, is widely used
for electronic circuit design, board layout and electrical engineering
training programs by companies and academic institutions including
Sony, Boeing, MIT and DeVry . National
Instruments and Electronics Workbench development teams will work to
further integrate the products and knowledge of the two companies.

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The Electronics Workbench
acquisition adds graphical design and simulation software to the
National Instruments platform of graphical development tools .

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ESP is ideally suited for verifying embedded memories in
system-on-chip (SoC) designs.com/academic /companion_products_ewb.

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com . Other product and company names listed are
trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

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The acquisition is not
expected to have a material impact on National Instruments earnings
for the first quarter of 2005. Readers can reach the
company at 416-977-5550 , or at www.

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The acquisition strengthens the
integration between functional test and design tools and will advance
graphical system design technology.

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(Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, announced
that Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL), a leading provider of
semiconductor IP platforms, has standardized on Synopsys' ESP memory
equivalency checker for the embedded memory components of its IPrima(TM)
Mobile semiconductor IP platform. "Their standardization on ESP for memory IP is another
example of ESP's ability to boost productivity and reduce time-to-results for
memory verification.synopsys.

NOTE: Synopsys and HSPICE are registered trademarks of Synopsys, Inc.

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, Synopsys, Inc. Archie
Holmes, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin, one of the leading institutions for
engineering education .com/design/eda.htm

About Electronics Workbench

Electronics Workbench develops and markets desktop electronic
design automation (EDA) software used by educators and design
engineers around the world.

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Virage Logic Standardizes on Synopsys' ESP for Memory Verification

"ESP provides a tremendous
productivity boost to our verification team, enabling them to complete
functional verification with less effort.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas----

Acquisition Strengthens Graphical System Design Platform
to Further Integrate Design and Test

National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) today announced the acquisition
of Toronto , Canada-based Electronics Workbench, a leading supplier of
electronics design automation software .
"Our customers are not satisfied with the integration of design,
simulation and test tools in the industry today," said Ray Almgren, NI
vice president of product marketing and academic relations . This acquisition provides a closer link among these
tools, which helps us better prepare our students to serve the growing
demands of the market.

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ESP Boosts Verification Productivity by 2X for Memory Compilers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Its patented application of
symbolic simulation and formal proof engines enables the functional
verification of full-custom memories, macros and libraries used in today's
complex ICs. Synopsys also provides
intellectual property and design services to simplify the design process and
accelerate time-to-market for its customers.

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About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA)
software for semiconductor design.
All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are
the intellectual property of their respective owners. Headquartered in Toronto,
Electronics Workbench has approximately 50 employees with sales and
support offices in North America and Europe and distribution partners
in more than 32 countries around the world.

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htm and academic users,
http: //www.com

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www. In 2003, the
company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.

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The company's circuit board design system
incorporates schematic capture; patented co-simulation of analog and
digital circuits using SPICE and VHDL; RF design tools;
constraint-driven PCB layout and autorouting; and CAM verification
tools .

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Synopsys is headquartered in
Mountain View, California, and has more than 60 offices located throughout
North America, Europe, Japan and Asia."
NI will retain all Electronics Workbench employees and continue to
operate the company as a separate entity in Toronto, Canada.

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National Instruments Acquires Design Automation Company Electronics Workbench

Leveraging the PC and
its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases
productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such
as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular
hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control
and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than
3,400 employees and direct operations in 41 countries.

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ESP's unique symbolic simulation
capabilities improve verification productivity by at least 2X over previous
approaches.
"Virage Logic has long been a leader in providing differentiated embedded
memory IP to the world's leading foundries, integrated device manufacturers
and fabless customers worldwide ," said Bijan Kiani, vice president of
marketing at Synopsys."
For several years, Electronics Workbench and National Instruments
have collaborated to integrate Multisim with the NI LabVIEW graphical
development environment through downloadable software and technical
resources that have helped thousands of engineers quickly design,
simulate and validate electronic circuits.

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In addition, ESP helps us debug the
functionality in our models. Visit Synopsys online at
http://www. "A
graphical system design platform that integrates these disparate tools
will increase productivity and make testing throughout the design
process more seamless.
For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best
companies to work for in America.ni.

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"We migrated to Multisim last year because it is a superior tool
for teaching electronic circuits and because students can use it to
easily integrate their simulations into LabVIEW," said Dr.ni.com/nati

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