SANTA CLARA, Calif. - April 03, 2006 - Sequence Design's Center of Excellence in India has announced the addition of Professor M. Balakrishnan, an academic and luminary at IIT Delhi, to the Sequence Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

"As our opportunities grow in India and throughout Asia we believe it is important to globalize our TAB to focus on specific markets," said Vic Kulkarni, Sequence president and CEO. "We are very pleased to welcome Professor Balakrishnan into the Sequence family."

Professor Balakrishnan is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, where he earned his PhD in 1985. He headed the Computer Science & Engineering Department at IIT Delhi for the three-year term from 2001 to 2004, and the Philips Chair Professor for two years previously. Professor Balakrishnan was the key initiator of a unique academic-industry collaboration, the industry-sponsored Masters Technology program in VLSI Design, Tools and Technology. He has supervised five research students and more than 65 Masters Technology and Bachelors Technology projects. Prior to teaching, he was a scientist with CARE, IIT Delhi, designing and implementing real-time DSP systems. He has published more than 60 conference and journal papers, and has held visiting positions with prestigious institutions throughout the world, including University of Guelph, Canada; Syracuse University, United States; University of Kiel, Germany; and University of Dortmund, Germany. He presently holds the Philips Chair at IIT Delhi.

About Sequence TAB

The Sequence corporate TAB formally meets on an annual basis, providing input on issues facing the design community, an analysis of current research and thinking on advanced design topics, and advice on what the EDA community can do to improve upon its service to the electronics industry.

Professor Balakrishnan joins current members of the Sequence TAB: Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT; Mustafiz Choudhury, inSilica; Masanori Hashimoto, Osaka University; Seiichi Nishio, Toshiba Corp. Semiconductor; Dr. Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley; Dr. Wolfgang Roethig; Hiroshi Sakuma, NEC Electronics; Dr. Sachin Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota; Professor Hyunchal Shin, HanYang University; Dr. Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan; and Professor Kimiyoshi Usami, Shibaura Institute of Technology.

About Sequence

Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves 9 of the top 10 semiconductor companies and over 130 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com.