07-13-06

Chip Estimate Forms Foundry Partner Program

Chartered Becomes First Foundry to Streamline Customer Connection with New IP Portal

Cupertino, Calif. - July 13, 2006 --Chip Estimate Corporation announced today that it has formed a foundry partner program, and that Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is the first foundry to join. Chartered customers will now be able to go to www.ChipEstimate.com and search for IP from Chartered IP partners, as well as through a link from Chartered's web site. These IP partners have developed IP spanning several generations of Chartered's technologies including advanced technologies using 90nm and 65nm processes. Analog and mixed-signal IP ranging from PLLs, DLLS, DACs, ADCs to high speed interconnect IP such as USB 2.0, PCI Express, XAUI, and SATA are representative of the types of IP from Chartered partners listed at ChipEstimate.com. At ChipEstimate.com, design teams can view a list of Chartered IP partners, view those partners. IP datasheets, and review IP status in silicon.

"We are pleased that Chartered has joined our Foundry Partner Program as another way to serve their customers," commented Adam Traidman, president of Chip Estimate. "By leveraging our IP search capabilities, Chartered's customers can easily locate the comprehensive IP options available to them."

"We have a long history of supporting open third-party IP solutions and extending to our customers the benefits of this IP listing capability. Many of our customers have told us they see the value in this capability to research and analyze their IP decisions, and the added capabilities Chip Estimate offers makes it even more useful," said Walter Ng, senior director of platform alliances at Chartered. "As part of our ongoing effort to improve the efficiency of design implementation on our processes, we are pleased to be the first foundry to support this IP portal."

The Chip Estimate Foundry Partner Program is designed to connect the chip design community with qualified IP designed to work with selected foundries. Fabless semiconductor companies frequently select a foundry first, then begin architecting their chip plan with available IP for their selected foundry.s process technology. Having a centralized location where foundry customers can search for IP tuned to Chartered's processes using a rank-by-relevance search engine simplifies the chip planning process.

Access to the Chip Estimate IP Portal is also available at the following web location: http://www.charteredsemi.com/design/ip_access_program.asp

About Chip Estimate Corporation
Chip Estimate Corporation is an EDA company focused on developing and delivering integrated chip project planning solutions. The company's InCyte products are used at the architectural level of the electronics design flow to estimate chip die size, power, leakage, yield and cost, and to perform what if analyses. The company's ChipEstimate.com website combines online IP search and select, and the ability to download InCyte to perform estimates using selected IP. Chip Estimate products range from a free version to an enterprise system that leading IDM and ASIC companies rely on to refine chip estimates throughout the integrated circuit implementation flow. The company partners with leading IP vendors, semiconductor manufacturers and industry organizations to help our mutual customers achieve greater profitability and design success. Since its launch in 2005, over 5,000 registered users have performed 30,000 chip estimations with InCyte through ChipEstimate.com.

The company is headquartered at:
10050 N. Wolfe Road
Suite SW1-266
Cupertino, CA 95014

Telephone: (408) 255-0444
Facsimile: (408) 255-0344
Email: info@chipestimate.com
Website: http://www.ChipEstimate.com


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