electronic design automation, synthesis tools, simulation designs, hardware description languages, HDL analysis, design purifiers

Avant! Corporation (Nasdaq:AVNT), headquartered in Fremont, California, develops, markets and supports integrated circuit design automation (ICDA) software for deep-submicron and very deep -submicron ICs, such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and complex ASICs. Integrated circuits (ICs) are essential to the high-growth semiconductor, consumer electronics, computer and communications industries. Companies competing in these fields use Avant!'s software tools to solve problems inherent in the physical design of today's most advanced integrated circuits: complexity, performance and constantly shrinking die sizes. Avant!'s IC development tools and technology help to create a new genre of highly demanding silicon products that power today's high-performance electronic equipment.

Avant! Corporation, 46871 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538. Tel: 510-413-8000; Fax: 510-413-8080.