06-27-07

Sidense Joins Chip Estimate's Prime IP Partner Program

Sidense Non-Volatile Memory SIP Cores Can Be Searched and Explored at ChipEstimate.com

Ottawa, Canada and Cupertino, California - July 27, 2007 --Sidense and Chip Estimate announced today that Sidense has joined the Chip Estimate Prime IP Partner Program. As a Prime IP Partner, Sidense is enabling centralized access to information about the company's embedded, non-volatile memory (NVM) SiFuse and SiPROM IP cores at ChipEstimate.com(tm).

ChipEstimate.com was launched in 2005 to provide comprehensive chip planning capabilities to the electronics and semiconductor community. In addition to the comprehensive IP catalog, designers can use the InCyte software available through the website to plan their next chips and explore die size, power, leakage and cost tradeoffs. Sidense IP components can now be searched for and considered in chip estimations through the website.

"With the growing interest in embedded non-volatile memory for many mature and emerging markets, including entertainment, wireless, gaming, encryption and tracking, our low-cost, compact and secure IP is ideal for low bit-count fuse replacement and high bit-count EEPROM, Flash and ROM replacement," commented Steve Cliadakis, Sidense Vice President of Worldwide Sales. "The combination of centralized IP information and chip planning tools that allow IP exploration in a chip context will significantly help our customers find the best IP configurations and see many of the advantages Sidense IP offers."

"Sidense SIP is a great addition to the ChipEstimate.com IP catalog," commented Sean O'Kane, Director of Partner Alliances for Chip Estimate. "Their offerings address the needs of our designer community seeking non-volatile memory IP solutions for digital and analog devices."

A complete list of Chip Estimate's Prime IP Partners can be seen at http://www.chipestimate.com/vendorlist.php.

About Sidense
Sidense provides secure, dense and reliable non-volatile one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores for use in standard-logic CMOS processes, with no additional masks or process steps required. The memory is portable across several different technology nodes and foundries, and can be programmed in the field or during wafer or production testing. The company has offices in Mississauga and Ottawa, Canada and sales offices in San Francisco, CA and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.sidense.com. The company is headquartered at 84 Hines Road, Suite 260, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2K 3G3. Telephone: +1 613 287 0292. Facsimile: 1 866 401 8153. Email: info@sidense.com

About Chip Estimate Corporation
Chip Estimate Corporation is an EDA company that delivers streamlined access to integrated chip project planning solutions. The company develops and markets the InCyte chip estimation systems, into which it integrates IP and manufacturing process models for the most accurate chip estimation possible. InCyte Enterprise(tm) is recipient of a 2007 International Engineering Consortium DesignVision Award.Chip Estimate partners with leading IP vendors and semiconductor manufacturers who share our mission of early and accurate chip planning for our mutual customers' ultimate design success. Since the 2005 launch of ChipEstimate.com, over 10,000 users have performed over 50,000 chip estimations with InCyte.

The company is headquartered at 10050 North Wolfe Road, Suite SW1-266, Cupertino, Calif. Telephone: 408 255 0444. Facsimile: 408 255 0344. Email: info@chipestimate.com. Website: http://www.ChipEstimate.com.

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Sidense Media Contact:
Jim Lipman>
Cain Communications>
+1 925 606 1370>
jlipman@caincom.com

Chip Estimate Media Contact:
Georgia Marszalek
ValleyPR for Chip Estimate Corp
Office: +1 650 345 7477
Georgia@ValleyPR.com