SANTA CLARA, Calif. - April 03, 2006 - Sequence Design, a Silicon Valley leader in EDA software used by chip designers to reduce power in portable and wireless devices, has added two new technical executives, one in Applications and the other in R&D Operations, to its staff here while expanding research and product development activities in India.

Sequence has also ramped up hiring of R&D and field application engineers in its new facility located in the Logix Technopark, Sector 127 area. By investing more than Rs 5 Crores annually, the company has quickly turned its Noida operation into one of its four global "Centers of Excellence," joining like facilities in Santa Clara, Calif.; Westford, Mass.; and London, England. To continue its growth in India, Sequence has attracted top talent from prestigious IITs, Jadavpur University, Delhi College of Engineering, BITs, and prominent U.S. and European universities due to its commitment for advanced R&D and IP creation in India.

Sequence Design India Welcomes Budhwar, Roy

Sanjay Budhwar has been appointed Director of Applications of Sequence Design India (SDI). He comes to the company from Agilent Technologies in New Delhi where he was operating manager in charge of physical design activities. Before that, he held senior engineering and management positions with Intel and Texas Instruments. Budhwar is a graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi, and holds and MBA from the University of Phoenix.

SDI has named Koushik Roy as its director of R&D Operations after 15 years with the two largest names in EDA, Cadence and Synopsys. At Synopsys he was R&D director working on power-aware technologies, and helped to develop a wide range of products as an engineering director with Cadence. He began his career as a hardware designer with Uptron Digital in India. Roy earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Jadavpur University in Calcutta.

"We see a greatly expanded role for customer applications support and product development in India with the additions of Sanjay and Koushik," said Vic Kulkarni, president and CEO, Sequence Design. "Their presence helps accelerates our 'Made In India' program, which gives Sequence's talented Noida staff the opportunity to take products from conception to customer."

Kulkarni said SDI's "Made In India" program has already borne fruit in a number of important areas, including 90nm and below interconnect modeling, RTL power analysis, SoC timing closure, a unique approach to timing optimization, power-gating transformation (a breakthrough approach to controlling leakage power in semiconductors), and several others.

"The work we are doing here directly benefits designers of the hottest products in global markets today, such as wireless, consumer electronics, multimedia, and portable devices," said Roy. "We have an incredibly talented and disciplined team here in Noida that has already produced much important work, and is bound for even greater things in the years to come."

"Since joining Sequence, have stepped up our applications support for multi-national customers who have expanded their chip design operations in India," said Budhwar. "We are also in the process of creating a worldwide post-sales support infrastructure based in Noida for all of our customers."

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.