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Sagantec and Time to Market Team up to Offer Design Migration Solutions

FREMONT, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—November 19, 2007— Sagantec and Time To Market Inc. (TTM) of San Jose, CA, today announced a collaboration to jointly deliver complete integrated circuit (IC) design migration solutions. This program offers a variety of unique strategies for re-implementation of existing designs to new process technologies.

This joint program combines Sagantec's layout reuse, process migration, and layout acceleration tools with TTM's IC design expertise and services. This combination provides powerful synergistic solutions that deliver complete tape-out-ready IC implementation in less time than traditional design flows.

These design migration solutions include: migration of complete IC designs to new process technologies, migration of designs from aging fabrication lines to modern fabrication processes, and porting from one foundry to another. These solutions support digital, mixed-signal, custom, or system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.

In today's dynamic electronics market, semiconductor companies need the flexibility and ability to quickly port designs from one process to another. This program enables these companies to take advantage of the denser and lower power technologies, and the ability to utilize additional or alternate wafer production sources. Sagantec and TTM offer the technology, expertise and resources to perform these tasks in a timely and efficient manner.

"Sagantec's layout reuse, automation and acceleration tools decrease the time and lower the cost to implement designs in multiple process technologies," said Hillel Ofek, president and chief executive officer of Sagantec. "Our customers are reporting breakthrough productivity and time gains using our tools in production for 65nm and 45nm ICs. This new partnership with TTM broadens the access to our technology and opens additional channels for delivering its benefits to a wider market."

Venkata Simhadri, president and chief executive officer of Time To Market Inc. said, "With the increase in complexity and effort necessary to do current layout implementation tasks, we have seen a growing demand for foundry and process portability. Combined with Sagantec's automated layout migration tools and our design expertise, we can address these demands and provide a solution that is significantly faster and very cost effective."

About Sagantec

Sagantec accelerates design to silicon in advanced process technologies. Sagantec's EDA products enable a dramatic shortcut in the successful deployment of new silicon technology through the use of physical design reuse, automatic process migration and DFM optimization. Sagantec's migration tools are used to redirect designs to either the newest technology or to a different process at the same technology node. Sagantec's DFM solutions accelerate delivery of high-yielding silicon through physical-design optimization. Privately held and funded, its corporate headquarters is at 46485 Landing Parkway, Fremont, CA. 94538. Telephone: (510) 360-5200. Facsimile: (510) 360-5255. On the Web at: www.sagantec.com

About TTM Inc.

Time To Market (TTM) Inc. is an ASIC design and embedded software Services Company based in San Jose, California. The company was incorporated in 1998 and has expanded operations to Hyderabad and Bangalore, India. TTM's reputation is based on a long history of first time success, on-time delivery, very large and complex designs in 90nm/ 65nm silicon, with SERDES high speed interfaces, and flip-chip packaging. The company has completed ASIC projects for leading electronics companies in the consumer, networking, and communications markets. For more information about TTM, please visit our web site at www.time2mkt.com, or contact us at 408-213-0370.

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