Nascentric Sponsors University Program

June 1, 2005

Nascentric announced today the creation of a University Program to provide engineering schools and universities with low-cost access to term-based licenses of AuSIM, Nascentric's high-performance simulator. Nascentric's AuSIM, a transistor level simulator, is the first in a series of advanced full-chip simulation and analysis products with the speed, accuracy, and capacity needed to make dynamic, full-chip simulation of nanometer effects possible. By providing access to the AuSIM simulator, the Program enables students, researchers, and professors to analyze larger and more complex circuits up to ten times faster that previously possible.

"We recognize the important role educational institutions play in the development of engineering talent," said John Croix, CTO and Co-Founder of Nascentric. "By granting universities access to AuSIM, Nascentric encourages engineering students to aggressively pursue leading-edge circuit design techniques and design automation practices."

Carnegie Mellon University, Mississippi State University, and the University of Toronto are the first universities to join the program and several other schools have expressed an interest in participation.

"We're pleased to join Nascentric's University Program," said Larry Pileggi, Ph.D., Tanoto Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI). "Access to extremely fast, SPICE-accurate tools plays a critical role in our ability to investigate and address the challenges that are encountered with each new generation of semiconductor technologies."

"In this competitive employment market, the opportunity to use leading-edge technology in our curriculum gives our students a significant advantage," said Kirk Schulz, Dean of the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. "Access to tools such as AuSIM, that provide dramatic runtime reductions while maintaining SPICE-accurate analysis, enables a more comprehensive understanding of the design."

"Nascentric's University Program provides tremendous benefit to the university, students, and the semiconductor industry," said Farid Najm, Professor and Vice-Chair of the ECE Department at the University of Toronto. "Curricula that allow students the freedom, and provide them the technology, to investigate the challenges of circuit design in the presence of nanometer effects provide the entire semiconductor industry with valuable engineering talent based on a real-world design experience."

About Nascentric

Nascentric is a privately held company that develops and markets a patented, next-generation Fast-SPICE simulator for analysis and functional verification of complex nanometer designs. Nascentric products allow designers to quickly simulate, analyze and verify larger and more complex circuits, improve design quality, and facilitate higher yields. The Nascentric management team brings decades of combined electrical engineering and electronic design automation experience to bear on the challenge of delivering full-chip simulation and analysis focused on eliminating silicon re-spins due to nanometer effects.

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