eInfochips Launches Comprehensive Suite of ARM technology-based IP and Services and Joins ARM Connected Community Program

Extends Silicon and Product Design & Validation Expertise to ARM technology-based Products & Designs

SANTA CLARA, CA – May 22, 2006 - eInfochips Inc., a leading silicon and product design services firm with spec-to-silicon-to-system capabilities, today announced the availability of the company’s suite of ARM processor-based IP and services. eInfochips’ has widespread expertise in silicon design and verification, firmware and board development and product design. With expertise in ARM technology, the company can meet a diverse range of applications needed to service the CE and communications and computer peripheral markets and enable customers to develop next-generation products, reducing time-to-market. The ARM processor-based IP and services will help customers accelerate their chip design cycle resulting in reduced time-to-tape-out and alleviating design risk involved.

eInfochips matches partners to customers throughout the spec-to-silicon-to-system design chain for co-innovation and development. The value chain at eInfochips extends from silicon design and verification, board design, firmware and middleware development to product design. eInfochips offers services like IP integration, FPGA prototyping, VIP development, SoC verification, ARM technology-based multiprocessor board design, BSP porting and development, communications stacks and codecs and product design on the ARM architecture.

“With the ever-increasing momentum and proliferation of ARM processor technology, our expertise will help accelerate development work and enable customers to get to market faster.” says Tapan Joshi, VP of marketing at eInfochips. “Our expertise will help us gain a stronger foot-hold in the silicon and product design market-space. eInfochips is now a one-stop shop for customer requirements ranging from ARM processor-based silicon design and verification to board-design, embedded firmware and support for mass manufacturing.”

eInfochips has also joined the ARM Connected Community, through which the company will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered® products to market faster.

“The Connected Community is a forum for companies to work together to provide the most complete solutions in the shortest possible time. By joining the Community, which now comprises more than 330 companies, eInfochips increases the large portfolio of skills, products and services that are centred around the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide,” said Ian Thornton, Director of Solutions Marketing, ARM.

eInfochips has designed and verified a multitude of complex ARM processor-based SoC designs for storage, automotive, image processing and video applications. It has executed a number of ARM processor-based product designs for navigation, streaming media, surveillance and remote server management applications. eInfochips’ suite of ARM technology-based IP comprises of AMBA® AXI-slave, AMBA APB-slave, AMBA AHB to APB bridge design IP cores and AMBA AHB synthesizable verification component.

Availability: The ARM technology-based IP suite is available now. 

About eInfochips Inc.

eInfochips Inc., with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., and Ahmedabad and Pune, India, is a leading provider of cutting edge ASIC design and verification services, embedded systems solutions and IP cores. The company’s capabilities extend from specification to system, with knowledge on ASIC design & verification, physical design, board design and embedded firmware development. The company's India and US design centers have delivered SoC and embedded solutions to a variety of customers thus increasing their cost-effectiveness, reducing their time-to-market and growing their market strength. A partial list of customers includes Agere Systems, ATI, Broadcom, Cypress Semiconductors, IDT, Inter Digital, Rambus, Texas Instruments. For more information on eInfochips, visit www.einfochips.com

About the ARM Connected Community

The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions.

For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit http://www.arm.com/community