SANTA CLARA, Calif. - June 17, 2003 - Sequence Design today announced it is porting all its tools to Linux, and the first Linux-compatible products were featured in the company’s DAC demo suite earlier this month.

According to a recent EE Times survey (May 2003), Linux is poised to become the engineer’s OS of choice by 2005 with close to 75 percent market share.

Besides supporting an increasingly popular platform, the switch to Linux is boosting Sequence performance numbers across the board. For example, internal tests demonstrate PowerTheater runtimes are as much as five times faster on Linux than existing platforms. Similar results - a 3X speedup - have been achieved with PhysicalStudio on a 64-bit Intel® Itanium® 2-based HP workstation running Red Hat Linux.

“The benefits for our customers are two-fold: the barriers to entry for design houses are lowered significantly by lowering the capital investment necessary to launch operations; and performance is increased dramatically, directly enhancing productivity,” said Dr. Susheel Chandra, Sequence senior vice president of R&D and product marketing.

“The increased performance of Sequence’s software on HP’s Itanium 2-based workstations running Linux demonstrates the benefits HP’s Itanium 2-based solutions customers have come to know,” said Dan Nordhues, worldwide product line manager, HP Workstations. “We welcome an EDA technology leader like Sequence into the Linux and Itanium processor family folds.”

Performance Improvements

In head-to-head comparisons of similarly powered workstations running Linux and competitive operating systems, Sequence tools routinely performed as much as 5X faster with Linux. For more information on the benchmarks, interested parties may contact linux@sequencedesign.com.

Linux Availability

Sequence has ported both PowerTheater and PhysicalStudio to Linux. The company plans Linux support for the rest of its tool portfolio by year’s end.

About Sequence

Sequence Design, Inc. enables system-on-chip designers to bring higher-performance and lower-power integrated circuits quickly to fabrication. Sequence’s power and signal integrity software give its more than 100 customers the competitive advantage they need to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design.

Sequence has worldwide development and field service operations. The company was recently named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 50 companies to watch in the electronics industry. Sequence is privately held. Sequence is a member of Cadence Design Systems’ Connections^TM and Mentor Graphics’ Open Door^TM partnership programs. Additional information is available at sequencedesign.com.