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ARM and EVE Sign Co-Emulation Partnership Agreement

Co-Emulation Platform Will Enable Early Architectural Exploration, Prototyping

EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with ARM where both companies have agreed to integrate their tools to produce a high-end co-emulation environment.

The ARM® RealView® SoC Designer electronic system level (ESL) design software will be coupled and integrated with EVE's ZeBu hardware-assisted verification platform for early architectural exploration and prototyping. This co-emulation environment will allow complete system level ARM technology-based SoC modeling including the use of existing register transfer level (RTL) code and offer the ability to migrate from models to RTL implementation.

The announcement coincides with the ARM Developers' Conference held this week, where the ZeBu-UF/SoC Designer co-emulation concept will be demonstrated October 3-4 in the EVE Booth #315.

"We selected EVE as part of our co-emulation strategy because they are leaders in hardware-assisted verification, and have a well-established reputation in the industry with many of our IP and tools licensees," says Mark Snook, Director of Marketing for System Level Tools, System Design Division at ARM. "This agreement enables our Partners to accelerate architectural exploration and software verification using the ARM SoC Designer tool together with the Zebu Platform."

The ARM SoC Designer tool enables the deployment and simulation of system level models of its intellectual property (IP) blocks. Using ZeBu with the SoC Designer tool allows for the reuse of existing RTL code without the need to write new models for existing peripherals. Designs can be progressively moved from simulation into emulation by removing models from the SoC Designer tool and synthesizing the RTL on ZeBu.

"Early architectural exploration is the dream of almost all design teams," remarks Lauro Rizzatti, worldwide marketing vice president and general manager of EVE-USA. "The co-emulation platform offered through the integration of the SoC Designer tool and ZeBu is an effective means of deploying system level models of ARM and third party IP."

The ARM Developers' Conference & Design Pavilion will be held October 2-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. For more details, visit: www.rtcgroup.com/arm/2007.

About EVE

EVE is the worldwide leader in hardware/software co-verification solutions, including hardware description language (HDL) acceleration and extremely fast emulation. EVE products significantly shorten the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems designs. Its products also work in conjunction with popular Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics. Its United States headquarters are in Santa Clara, Calif. Telephone: (408) 855-3200. Facsimile: (408) 845-9209. Corporate headquarters are in Palaiseau, France. Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30. Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40. Email: info@eve-team.com. Website: http://www.eve-team.com.

EVE acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

ARM and RealView are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "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 Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS.

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For more information about EVE and ZeBu, contact Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE USA. He can be reached at (408) 855-3201 or via email at lauro@eve-team.com.