SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Jan. 31, 2008 - Sequence Design's PowerTheater-Explorer has been named a finalist for the 2008 DesignVision Awards sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). Selected from a record number of entries, PowerTheater-Explorer is one of just three finalists in the "ASIC and Design Tools" category.

PowerTheater-Explorer is an innovative option to the industry's premier RTL power analysis engine, PowerTheater, that adds state-of-the art power visualization and debug capabilities for fast, interactive power reduction.

"The IEC is pleased to recognize PowerTheater-Explorer and Sequence Design as a 2008 DesignVision finalist," commented IEC president John Janowiak. "It's design teams and companies like these that are committed to the successful technology advancement that drive all industries forward."

"I am honored that Sequence has been chosen as a DesignVision finalist," said Vic Kulkarni, Sequence president and CEO. "PowerTheater-Explorer typifies many of the things we are developing to help designers reduce power, while making quantum strides to improve their productivity. For example, its unique visualization capabilities enable rapid power closure by providing unmatched insights into how to manage power at multiple design levels."

The first official announcement of winners will take place at the 2008 DesignVision Awards Ceremony at DesignCon 2008 on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, at noon in the Santa Clara Convention Center theater. Entrance to the awards ceremony is complimentary with an Exhibits Plus Pass available at www.designcon.com/2008/register/index.asp.

About PowerTheater-Explorer
PowerTheater-Explorer is a radical visualization technology for understanding where, why and when power is consumed in a design. Providing the singular capability to cross-probe interactively between RTL, schematics, simulation waveforms, and power reports and waveforms, it demystifies power for the logic designer unfamiliar with power. By displaying activity and power as it traverses through a design, designers can now reduce power even for inherited IP. PowerTheater-Explorer also stores data in OpenAccess, an Si2 standard database, allowing designers to write their own power data analyzers and customized reports.

About PowerTheater
PowerTheater is the industry's first and only production-proven solution to truly analyze power at RTL as opposed to gate-level. This provides full-chip capacity for early power visibility and exploration into different micro-architectures and advanced power reduction techniques. Operating at RTL also offers unique productivity gains in qualifying functional simulation vectors for power for different modes of operation, feeding forward appropriate vectors for package selection or preventing test and functional dynamic voltage drop failures.

About Sequence
Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence Design-For-Power solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets. For more information: www.sequencedesign.com.