1. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization 電子設計自動化概況及挑戰 -- 思源科技之觀點及角色 李新基 (Thomas Li) 思源科技資深市場行銷部經理

2. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Gordon Moore – Moore ’ s Law Design complexity will double approximately every 12-18 months Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm etc. It ’ s important to recognize that differentiation-creation innovation and productivity-creating deconstruction must be conducted in tandem. If you try the former without the latter, the inertia demon defeats you. If you try the latter without the former, you do nothing to overcome the forces of commoditization … Harvard Business Review July/August 2004 Two Moores ’ Tales InnovationProductivity

3. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Therefore … The productivity of the development team must double every twelve months

4. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Is that possible? US Productivity growth  Since 1996 averaged 2.5% per year  Q2 2003 5.7%  Q2 2004 1.9% Worldwide China 1978-2001 average 6.6% per year India 3.4% per year European telecommunications industry 1990’s ~18% per year

5. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Is that possible? Yes it is – and has the been the case over many years ITRS Essentially flat

6. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Yes is it Possible! Recent effects  ESL will have a small effect according to Gartner  I believe it will have a much bigger effect  Big gain from very large block re-use  platforms The previous productivity improver  Intelligent testbench  There is lots more to be gained here as well  This was actually the enabler for the ESL transition Productivity growth is the driver for new tools.

7. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Who Deliver the Possibility Risk Reduction ROI Productivity Time to Volume Risk Reduction ROI Productivity Time to Volume Reliability High Performance Ease of Use Functionality Design Cycle Time Reliability High Performance Ease of Use Functionality Design Cycle Time Cost Reduction Licensing Supplier Viability Business Flexibility Cost Reduction Licensing Supplier Viability Business Flexibility EDA Vendors EDA Vendors

8. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization IC Design Flow Overview System Specification Functional Design Logic Design (RTL) Gate Level Design Physical Design Fabrication Package / Test Synthesizer A.P.RFull Custom Verification/Simulation Post Simulation ExtractionVerification

9. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Springsoft Product Family Debussy Verdi Siloti

10. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization SpingSoft Profile Incorporated: 1996 Feb. 2nd Listed on TSE at 2001 The ONLY listed EDA company in Asia Market capital US$240M 31 Patents filed in U.S. Best selling product: Debussy, Verdi, Laker

11. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Novas USA San Jose, CA Dallas, TX Austin, TX Massachusetts, MA Portland, OR KT Design Technology Seoul, Korea Springsoft (Shanghai) Shanghai, China Novaflow Inc. Yokohama, Japan Springsoft Inc. Hsinchu, Taiwan Novas Limited Henley, UK WAIZ Singapore CMR Design Automation Bangalore, India Headquarter R&D Center Silicon Canvas San Jose, CA SpingSoft Profile

12. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Asia Semiconductor Industry on Spotlight

13. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Market position Top five EDA vendors in terms of market cap. Top eight EDA vendors in terms of usage in Taiwan Unit:10M Springsoft

14. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Technology Excellence Technical staff 100+ engineers Tenzing Norgay Award for interoperability 2004 EDN top 100 products 2002 & 2004 IEC DesignVision Award Winner 2005 EDN Innovation Finalist 2002 Electronique Magazine (France) Product of the Year 2006 Novas Leadership Accelerating Engineers #1 Customer satisfaction  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 EETimes EDA user survey #1 Market share  Gartner/Dataquest “RTL Design” category 400+ end user companies 50+ EDA / IP partners Mission: Ease design comprehension from systems to silicon freeing engineers to focus on tasks that add more value Debug Automation Comprehension Visibility Enhancement KDB FSDB Unification nESL™ Debussy ® nAnalyzer™ SimVE™ SilVE™

15. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Unified, Open System Platform SpecificationBlock Chip Design & Verification Process LanguagesTools Knowledge Compilers APIs KDB FSDB Aldec Apache Atrenta Avery Beach Bluespec Cadence Calypto Carbon Credence DAFCA Denali EverCAD EVE Fintronic Fishtail Forte Incentia Jasper Jeda Legend Manhattan Mentor OneSpin Prodesign Prover Real Intent Sandwork Saros Sequence Simpod Spiratech Static Free Synfora Synopsys SynTest SysVeri Tabula Tenison Tharas TransEDA Winterlogic Xoomsys

16. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Enhancing Visibility Assertions SystemVerilog e/Specman VERA Verilog VHDL SystemC Software Transactions STIL LEF/DEF Observability Failure Analysis DfD Netlists Timing Power Architecture New Visibility Enhancement Tools Regression Sim nESL™ nAnalyzer™ Advanced Debug From Systems to Silicon

17. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Customer Testimonial "Our teams work on extremely complex designs with advanced process technologies, often involing very large gate counts and significant amounts of third-party IP. These factors increase the magnitude of the verification challenge and impose additional time and cost constraints on our engineering efforts. With Verdi system, we are able to implement a much more effective, automated debug methodology for finding problems faster and earlier in the development cycle." Shigenori Imazato VP of Engineering, Toshiba America Electronic Components

18. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Laker – The only Constant in Custom Innovation Cut Layout Time in Half with Handcrafted Quality! Powerful ECO Flow

19. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Laker’s Customers 200+ companies adopt Laker in production now

20. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization TSMC uses Laker to taped-out their 90nm and developing 65nm including memory, IO, STD Cell Lib. and mixed-signals IP ST Micro uses Laker to taped-out 90nm STD Cell Lib. and developing 65nm SRAM LG-Philips and AUO use Laker to taped- out 42” LCD TV panel MediaTek uses Laker to taped-out MT1508- CD-R/RW Chip, MT1328-DVD-ROM Chip and MT1369-DVD Player Combo Chip Laker has Delivered over 2300 Chips ……

21. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization Customer Testimonial “We were impressed by performance of Laker's database. Moreover, MCell™ provides a much faster and more flexible way for device creation and modification that dramatically increase the yield of our custom layout projects,” ”We’ve also greatly benefited from Springsoft’ commitment to customer support. Our memory layout team receives top-notch service. During the past two years, Springsoft and Laker have greatly helped our projects. Fred Wang, Senior Director at TSMC "Magic Cell? provides a much faster, more flexible way for device creation and modification. It allows a truly ease-to-use method for using and reusing devices. Laker provides practical solutions to deal with the shrinking layout time and still deliver better layout quality." Johnson Liu Manager of Layout Engineering Dept.

22. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization What Will be in the Future? Customized Platforms, add on functions 2007 Makimoto’s Wave

23. ©2001 SPRINGSOFT INC. Company Confidential Information. Duplication, reuse or transfer of ownership requires advanced written authorization SpringSoft Behaviors for Success Integrity Customer Focus Accountability No.1 Aspiration Diversity Optimistic with Passion Innovation Teamwork

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