VeriSilicon Announces ZView(TM) Development Environment for Its Industry Standard ZSP(R) Processors

VeriSilicon Announces ZView(TM) Development Environment for Its Industry Standard ZSP(R) Processors

September 26, 2006

Robust, Sophisticated, Easy-to-Use IDE and Debug Environment Significantly Reduces Software Development Time
Multi-Processor Debugging Capability Supports Industry Trend of Growing SoC Design Complexity

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 26
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
(VeriSilicon), a leading world class ASIC design foundry
and semiconductor IP provider, today announced the
immediate availability of ZView, a new software development
environment for its popular ZSP architecture. This new
product introduces significant enhancements to the
VeriSilicon software development kit offering, which
includes C-compiler, assembler, linker, debugger, and IDE.

    ZView incorporates the industry standard Eclipse(TM)
IDE providing ZSP software developers a rich, intuitive
environment to quickly build application software.  The
ZView IDE provides programmers with numerous options such
as using either ZSP simulator models or ZSP hardware
platforms including remote access to hardware via a TCP/IP
connection. The new tool suite easily supports complex
debug configurations for multiple ZSP targets with multiple
users with fast data access and extensive display
capabilities.  Also, the ZView Compiler now supports C and
C++ programming languages.

    "As a total system solution and ASIC provider for
our Customers, we recognize the importance of offering
robust development environments for our IP solutions. The
ZView product introduction is part of VeriSilicon continued
commitment to reducing the complexity our customers face
getting their products to market", said Federico
Arcelli, Corporate Vice President of Marketing at
VeriSilicon.
 
    Availability

    ZView supports the full ZSP processor family and is
available today. For more information, please contact
[e-mail].
 
    About ZSP(R)

    ZSP is a family of licensable digital signal processing
(DSP) cores and solutions from VeriSilicon. With more than
50 customers worldwide, the ZSP processor architecture
enables customer innovation as the DSP of choice in many
key vertical markets including 3G wireless handsets,
multimedia and networked voice applications. The ZSP
portfolio offers a range of software compatible cores
delivering performance points that meet the cost, power and
efficiency constraints of today's SoC designs. A number of
standard products are also available for VoIP applications.
ZSP Solution Partners augment the technology with
world-class software tools, EDA modeling support and a
large portfolio of application software. ZSP customers
include Broadcom, Marvell, IBM, Renesas, Yamaha, Huawei,
Datang, Murata, AVID and many other world-class companies. 
More information is available at
http://www.verisilicon.com/zsp .

    About VeriSilicon

    VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is a leading world class
ASIC design foundry providing libraries, semiconductor IPs,
design and turnkey manufacturing services with multi-fab
capability and on process technologies down to 90nm.
VeriSilicon has achieved first silicon success and entered
volume production of many complex, multi-million gates SoCs
using the leading wafer foundries in APAC and China.
VeriSilicon has operations in US, China, Taiwan, Japan,
France, and Korea. Over 500 customers worldwide have
licensed VeriSilicon IPs and Standard Design Platforms. In
2005, VeriSilicon was ranked number three in Deloitte
Technology Fast 50 China, the top 50 fastest-growing
technology companies in China and number six in Deloitte
Fast 500 Asia Pacific, the top 500 fastest-growing
technology companies in Asia Pacific. VeriSilicon was also
named one of the Red Herring 100 Private Companies of Asia,
and selected as one of the EE Times 60 Emerging Startups.
More information is available at http://www.verisilicon.com
.

    For more information, please contact:

     Federico Arcelli
     Corporate VP, WW Marketing 
     VeriSilicon						
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.