SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire India) - July 03, 2006 - Sequence Design, EDA's power-aware SoC design technology leader, is taking its popular low-power design seminar to Bangalore for the first time on Aug. 30, 2006. The seminar will be held at The Taj Residency, 41/3 M G Road, Bangalore starting at 9AM, and will conclude with a complimentary luncheon and prize lottery. The event is co-sponsored by Sequence, Virage Logic, and D'gipro, the distributor for Sequence products for the India market.

Sequence presentations and invited speakers will focus on four areas: predicting power consumption early in the design cycle, reduction of switching power consumption, reduction of leakage power, and efficient power-grid design. Industry-specific information on low-power design for wireless will be presented.

Interested parties may register for the seminar by sending an e-mail to Sequence India's Subrata Mukherjee at subratam@sequencedesign.com.

The first keynote speaker is Bharadwaj Amrutur, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, who will discuss academic breakthroughs relating to low-power design.

Another keynote address features Rajat Gupta, Managing Director of Beceem, India, who will discuss design challenges for broadband wireless SOCs.

Genesis Microchip Lead Physical Design Engineer, Pankaj Panjwani, will present a design case study employing Sequence's CoolTime and CoolCheck. Virage Logic's Amit Khanuja, Group Leader, will talk about low-power design and memories.

Sequence's Mark Goldman, Vice President of Sales, will provide a corporate overview and address a roadmap for low-power design technologies. Sanjay Budhwar, Director-Application & Consulting of Sequence India, will present an integrated low-power design flow demo featuring the new Silicon-Aware PowerTheater 65.

India currently employs more than 10,000 IC design engineers, working in both innovative, home-grown startups, and multinational corporations such as Intel, TI, Cisco, ST, and many others. EDA tools sales in India top $50 million annually and are quickly rising, while nearly half of all designs in India are at 90nm and below.

"We are delighted to bring our popular seminar series to India for the first time," said Vic Kulkarni, Sequence President and CEO. "There is a tremendous spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation here, driven by excellence in both academics and technology, and we are delighted to be a part of it."

A company with global reach, Sequence maintains direct sales, support and R&D facilities along with distributor relationships in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and India. In the past five years, Sequence has invested Rs. 20 Crores (over $4.5 million) in its India-based R&D operations alone. Sequence president and CEO Vic Kulkarni has shown leadership and innovation in his establishment of a strong international corporate culture. The company has a growing customer base of multinational semiconductor companies in India, particularly in Bangalore's technology-rich environment, and has recently expanded its "Center of Excellence" in Noida's Logix Techno Park.

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 over 150 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.