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Oki Develops Analog Blocks Five Times Faster with Cadence Technology

Tokyo, Japan - Jun 8, 2005 (PRN): Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) (Nasdaq:CDN) and Oki Electric Co., Ltd. (TSE:6703) today announced that Oki has achieved five times faster design turn-around-time for its analog blocks than with its previous design methodology and has successfully completed 30 reusable analog intellectual property (IP) designs using Cadence(R) Virtuoso(R) NeoCircuit technology.

"Cadence's Virtuoso NeoCircuit technology has become a key component of Oki's analog IP creation," said Ichiro Yamamoto, senior manager, Design System Department in the LSI Design Division of Oki Electric's Silicon Solutions Company. "We are proud to announce that we have established a new design culture based on Virtuoso NeoCircuit with our proprietary IP templates. This Cadence technology allows us to compete more effectively with other leading manufacturers in this market segment."
Oki's designers were looking to reuse the analog IP they had already created without having to manually repeat design work. The use of this fully tested IP reduced the need for - and, therefore, time spent on - expensive verification cycles and silicon re-spins. This had the added benefit of allowing designers to focus on their core competencies.

Since adopting Cadence's NeoCircuit technology in December 2003, Oki has been using it to design analog circuits for personal mobile market-use LSIs (large scale integrated circuits), sound generator LSIs, memory LSIs including P2ROM(TM), DRAM and FeRAM, Flat Panel Display (FPD) Driver LSIs for TFT-LCD and OLED, etc. With this technology, they have been able to achieve five times faster design turn-around-time than with their previous design methodology. Internal Oki testing has proven that the quality of the analog circuits designed using NeoCircuit is much higher than the circuits designed from scratch.

Cadence Virtuoso NeoCircuit technology enables designers to rapidly size their circuit to meet performance specifications. The technology provides design teams the ability to predict silicon performance, improve yield and achieve improved design accuracy. Virtuoso NeoCircuit is an integral part of a front-to-back automated rapid analog design (RAD) flow and provides circuit designers with a fast efficient methodology for generating analog IP, all the way from schematic entry through to physical layout.

Analog circuitry is challenging to design, and analog content is extremely sensitive to process variations. These challenges can adversely impact chip yields. Cadence Virtuoso NeoCircuit technology speeds SoC and analog/mixed-signal design and improves quality by providing design exploration, design centering, and circuit and layout optimization early in the design cycle. This enables designers to optimize circuit specifications while taking into account manufacturing variations. The net result is higher-performance designs with improved yield in less time. Moreover, circuits created with this unique design methodology become analog IP that designers can reuse and retarget to new processes, speeding time to market.

"Cadence is very pleased that Oki has successfully established its analog design environment in less than a year and, in the process, created over 30 analog IP designs based on the Cadence Virtuoso NeoCircuit technology" said Felicia James, vice president and general manager, Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform. "This success is proof of Oki's advanced analog design innovation."

About Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported 2004 revenues of approximately $1.2 billion, and has approximately 4,700 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at http://www.cadence.com.
Cadence, Virtuoso, Spectre and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Answer the Phone: Your Identity is on the Line

Beverly Hills, CA -- (ArriveNet - May 06, 2005) -- There hasn't been much good news in the battle against identity theft lately, with fraudsters staying one step ahead of the game. But don't panic, our old friend the telephone has come to the rescue.

We're all aware of the problem of identity theft, but did you know that your local pizza chain has had a solution for years? You recognize it as the system that prevents little Johnny from having twenty pizzas delivered to your door at midnight: the pizza chain calls you immediately after the order is placed to verify the validity of the order. Because little Johnny is afraid to be caught, he'll think twice about causing this pizza-related havoc.

TeleSign's patent-pending verification system has transferred this pizza concept to the high-tech world. It works like this: after filling out a form on a website, the user is prompted to enter his phone number. A robotic system then places a call to that number and speaks aloud a unique three digit code. Once that code is entered into the website, the authentication is complete. This system can be implemented at any point on a website: at registration, purchase, a specific time interval, or at the request of a user.

Email verification is the current standard for user authentication, but email may end up filtered, junked, bulked, or trashed. Because of spam, viruses, and phishing, email filtering has become so aggressive that even legitimate emails don't reach the inbox. But a telephone call cannot be stopped, making this the perfect time for the introduction of TeleSign’s solution.

The future of ecommerce is threatened by rampant fraud and lack of trust. TeleSign will force anonymous users to expose their faces by revealing their working phone numbers.

To try an interactive demo, visit (http://www.telesign.com/demo2/demo.asp) and have your phone ready.

For more information about TeleSign’s products and services, visit (http://www.telesign.com/demo2/) or email press2@telesign.com.

About TeleSign Corp.
TeleSign is a leader in innovative internet security solutions and provider of intelligent telephone-based verification solutions for any entity conducting business online where trust is essential and where fraud is a concern. TeleSign’s patent-pending Verification System provides a critical layer of security for the e-commerce world and is a proven deterrent against ill-intentioned web users. The company’s first product, the TeleSign Verification System, blends the latest internet, security and telephony technologies into a powerful new tool to combat fraud and enhance trust in e-business.

TeleSign Corp. seeks to provide simplified solutions for any company conducting business online where trust is essential and where fraud is a concern. TeleSign’s patent-pending Verification System provides a critical layer of security for the e-commerce world and is a proven deterrent against ill-intentioned web users. TeleSign’s Verification System is able to legitimize a web user’s claimed identification at a miniscule cost and with little inconvenience to all parties involved.

TeleSign’s Verification System is based upon the premise that ill-intentioned web users hesitate to disclose their working phone numbers. By placing a computer-generated telephone call coupled with a unique security code, we insist that a web user provide a legitimate telephone number or be rooted out. The company’s first product, the TeleSign Verification System, blends the latest internet, security and telephony technologies into a powerful new tool to combat fraud in e-commerce.

Visit http://www.telesign.com/demo2/ or call 310-276-5900 for more information.

TeleSign Corporation
Contact: Sam Gonen
Telephone: (310) 276-7843
Email: press2@telesign.com

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