CoWare Joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program to Enable Virtual Platform-Based Software Development for Symbian Smartphones

LONDON -- October 16, 2006 -- CoWare^®, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian OS^™. As a Platinum Partner, CoWare is extending its virtual platform for software development solution to the Symbian ecosystem.

Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers and to date over 83 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to over 250 mobile network operators.

CoWare Virtual Platform product family delivers the tools and technologies that support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for software development, system integration, and test. Virtual hardware platforms are models of the device hardware and the environment it evolves in. They also enable electronics companies to engage more effectively with their customers and ecosystem partners.

“The explosive uptake of smartphones worldwide has driven the need for robust development tools, with a particular emphasis on tools that offer state-of-the-art virtualization of hardware running in software, as such tools accelerate product time-to-market and decrease development costs,” said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of U.S. operations, Symbian. “We are delighted to welcome CoWare to the Symbian Platinum Program, as this partnership underscores our joint commitment to bringing new software development approaches and technologies to the ever-growing Symbian OS ecosystem.”

“In today’s rapidly growing smartphone market CoWare has the opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of advanced mobile phones,” says Marc Serughetti, CoWare director of marketing. “By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we can now expand our solution and strengthen our relationships with software development, system integration, and test teams, and ensure they have access to a comprehensive and integrated solution for Symbian OS-based designs.”

About the Symbian Platinum Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities, as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html.

About CoWare

CoWare is the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of ESL tools that enable electronics companies to “differentiate by design” through the creation of system IP including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP algorithms; the architecture of optimized SoC platforms; hardware/software co-design; and virtual platforms for device software development. The company’s solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC. CoWare’s customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare’s corporate investors include ARM (LSE:ARM), (Nasdaq:ARMHY); Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq:CDNS); STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM); and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about CoWare and its products and services visit http://www.coware.com.

About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million.

Symbian is hosting The Symbian Smartphone Show, 17-18 October 2006, at ExCel, in London, U.K. For more information or to register or visit http://www.symbiansmartphoneshow.com/2006/.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.