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Renesas Design Vietnam Selects Synopsys as its EDA Provider for SoC Design

Synopsys’ Galaxy™ Design and Discovery™ Verification Platforms and DesignWare® IP to Accelerate SoC Development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 13, 2006 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced that Renesas Design Vietnam Co. (RVC), Ltd, a system LSI semiconductor design subsidiary of the leading microcontroller supplier Renesas Technology Corp., has chosen Synopsys as its electronic design automation (EDA) provider for system-on-chip (SoC) design. RVC will use Synopsys’ Galaxy™ Design and Discovery™ Verification Platforms, as well as Synopsys’ DesignWare® Library intellectual property (IP), to speed development of SoCs for Renesas’ SH-Mobile application processors used in mobile phones and consumer electronics products.

“We have used Synopsys solutions worldwide with great success for our design activities to develop and implement SoCs for mobile, automotive and PC/audio-visual applications,” said Mr. Tsuneo Sato, president and CEO at Renesas Design Vietnam Co., Ltd. “Synopsys’ complete RTL-to-GDSII flows and proven IP deliver the performance and productivity we need for our advanced SoC designs. Synopsys is an important partner for the design and implementation of SoCs for a wide range of products.”

“Renesas Vietnam adopted Synopsys’ solutions to address their design challenges because they require the highest-quality tools and IP for their SoCs,” said Geok-Cheng Tan, director of Area Sales at Synopsys. “We support Vietnam’s talented engineers and are committed to helping Vietnam grow as a technology leader.”

“It’s gratifying to have RVC, a design subsidiary of a world-class semiconductor manufacturer such as Renesas Technology, choose Synopsys as its EDA provider,” said Howard Ko, vice president of Asia Pacific Sales at Synopsys. “We’ve enjoyed a close working relationship with Renesas Technology at many of its worldwide facilities and look forward to helping them develop SoCs for the burgeoning electronics market in Vietnam. We will continue to work with Renesas Technology to ensure predictable success for their SoC designs.”

Qualcomm funds chipset research in Vietnam
11:13′ 13/11/2006 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – The world’s leading company in chipset and CDMA technology, Qualcomm, has agreed to partly fund and send its experts to Vietnam to sharer technology with its Vietnamese partner.

The Vietnamese partner is the Centre for Chipset Research and Design Training under the HCM City-based National University.

The US Synopsys Company, one of the world’s top companies on software supporting chip design will also provide free Synopsys software, worth around $1 million, for the center to perform its pilot project on chipset design.

The Centre for Chipset Research and Design Training is the first unit in Vietnam that is set up to promote chipset design. It is carrying out a project on researching and designing IP core for RISC 8 bit SignaK3 Chip with the assistance of Qualcomm, Synopsys, and some other local and foreign investors. The center plans to export intellectual property (IP) of this product to the world.

Bui Man Hai, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, said that local and foreign firms assisting the center in chipset research and design is very meaningful, particularly when Vietnam has joined the WTO.

Vietnam now lacks human resources for its chipset designing industry. The Renesas Vietnam Company needs up to 1,000 engineers from now to 2020 but it can recruit only 100.

The Centre for Chipset Research and Design Training will open chipset designer training courses in the near future to meet the needs of the market.

Thu Huong

US firm gives software for City design centre

VNECONOMY updated: 14/11/2006

The US-based semiconductor design company Synopsys donated US$1 million worth of software to the IC Design, Research and Education Centre (ICDREC) in HCM City last Friday.

The donation will go towards ICDREC’s pilot software design project to establish a group of digital IC (integrated circuit) design experts to build the first 8-bit Risc chip family IP core in Viet Nam.

Other sponsors for the project officially announced last Friday include Qualcomm, Vmicro semiconductor company and Global Cybersoft Viet Nam.

Established by the Viet Nam National University of HCM City in late 2005, ICDREC, the first IC research centre of its kind in Viet Nam, aims to improve human resource development, research and technological development in the IC industry.

Synopsys Singapore Ltd.’s Executive Account Manager, Darence Tan Kim Soon, said that Synopsys decided to invest in the pilot project located in HCM City as the city accounts for 70 per cent of the total hardware transactions and 60 per cent of the total software transactions in all of Viet Nam.

“Most importantly,” he said, “HCM City has a very young labour force that is highly disciplined and qualified in new technology absorption. They are well supported by solid infrastructure and good institutions such as the National University in HCM City.”

“IC design is one of the key industries in the economic development of developed countries such as the US and Japan,” said Huynh Thanh Dat, deputy director of HCM City National University.

He also said that the development of the semiconductor industry hosts an increasing demand for human resources, for which the ICDREC was established.

He added that ICDREC plans to recruit and train electronics and telecommunications students from Vietnamese universities to become IC design experts.

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