DesignVision Winners Take the Stage at DesignCon 2007 Accepting Awards for Best Tools and Products in Semiconductor Industry

CHICAGO – January 30, 2007 – Honoring the best products as the most beneficial to the semiconductor industry, the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) announced today the winners of the highly-coveted 2007 DesignVision Awards at DesignCon 2007, which will take place through Thursday, February 1 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer stated, "Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission. We're pleased to give tribute to the innovators who have helped advance progress in electronic design."

Winners were chosen by a panel of judges selected from the DesignCon Technical Program Committee. This year's Technical Program Committee consisted of 96 of the industry's top thought leaders.

In the nine categories, the 2007 award winners include the following companies and products respectively:

ASIC and IC Design Tools

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. — Cadence Space-Based Router

Design Verification Tools

• OneSpin Solutions -- OneSpin 360 Module Verifier

Interconnect Technologies and Components

• Denali Software -- DDR PHY Interface (DFI) Standards

PCB Design Tools

• PCB Libraries, Inc. -- IPC-7351A LP Wizard

Semiconductors and ICs

• National Semiconductor -- LM3370 Multi-Channel Integrated Power Management Device

Semiconductors and ICs (IP)

• Stratosphere Solutions, Inc. -- StratoPro

Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools

• Altium Limited -- Altium Designer 6
• Xilinx -- PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool (Version 8.2)

System-Level Design Tools

• Synplicity, Inc. -- Open IP Encryption Methodology
• Chip Estimate -- InCyte Enterprise

Test and Measurement Equipment

• Agilent Technologies -- J-BERT with industry first built-in clock data recovery (CDR)
• LeCroy -- SDA 18000
• Tektronix, Inc. -- RSA6100A Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer

Industry professionals can view the 2007 winning products on the DesignCon exhibition floor with a complimentary Exhibits Only Pass available at www.designcon.com/2007/. For more information, contact Lisa Reyes at lreyes@iec.org or +1-312-559-3325.

About DesignCon
DesignCon serves as the premier event for practicing engineers in the electrical design and semiconductor communities. Broadening the scope to address business as well as technical issues of the industry, DesignCon 2006 hosted 125 exhibiting companies and drew more than 5,000 industry professionals to register. This year's DesignCon will host more than 300 industry experts to speak in more than 100 educational tutorials, plenary panels, paper presentations, and sessions at DesignCon. Complementing the conference, more than 125 exhibitors are expected to take the floor exhibiting the latest technological developments. Visit www.designcon.com/2007.

About the IEC
A nonprofit organization, the IEC is dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students.

In conjunction with industry-leading companies, the IEC has developed an extensive, free, on-line educational program. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have a substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the information age.

More than 70 leading high-technology universities are IEC affiliates, and the IEC handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineers. The IEC also manages the activities of the Enterprise Communications Consortium. Visit www.iec.org.