Grenoble, France - March 21, 2008 - Xyalis marks North American Operations expansion with official opening of an office in San Jose, California. Xyalis, the leader in layout finishing solutions, today officially announced the opening of its North American office and the appointment of Sylvie Hurat as US Area Manager and plans to re-enforce the American team with a Field Application Engineer in the coming months to support the new North American customers.

Xyalis has an exciting product portfolio that meets an accelerating market need for cost-effective, time-saving, and robust solutions," says Philippe Morey-Chaisemartin, CTO of Xyalis. "The fact that Xyalis has built up a deserved reputation as one of the most robust EDA tools vendors makes this opportunity even more appealing."

"Xyalis aims to aggressively grow its layout finishing market shares by providing customers with best in class dummy Filling and Mask Data Preparation solutions that meet their escalating needs," says Samuel Perraud, Business Development Manager at Xyalis. "An official Californian presence is key to achieving our expansion goals in North America."

Sylvie Hurat (ENSIMAG - Grenoble) joins Xyalis with an extensive EDA experience at companies like Synopsys, Verisity and most recently Cadence as Senior Product Marketing Manager. Sylvie Hurat says, "I am very pleased to join the Xyalis team, which has consistently been at the worldwide forefront of Metal Filling and Mask Data Preparation for many years.

Eric Beisser CEO plans to re-enforce the worldwide expansion of Xyalis in the coming next six months with the opening of a branch in Tokyo to support the Japanese & Asian markets.

About Xyalis
Xyalis, is a French company, based in Grenoble, incorporated in 1998. It is today a worldwide leader in layout finishing solutions, addressing two different markets. The first one is Mask Data Preparation needs like Multi Project Wafers management and Frame Generation. Its customers are typically masks shops and semiconductor foundries. The second is the Chemical & Mechanical Polishing market. Xyalis offers a unique dummy filling solution which is actually used in production for 130nm to 45nm designs.

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For more information, please contact:
Eric Beisser
Phone: +33 4 76 70 64 75
eMail: Email Contact
Web: www.xyalis.com

US address:
14938 Camden Avenue, Suite 216,
San Jose, CA 95124, USA
Phone: +1 (408) 879 9545