D&R selects Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST) to be its distributor and technical representative in Israel

Grenoble -- August 31, 2010 -- D&R has developed a unique configurable Enterprise IP Management Platform since more than a decade. Based on a broad extensive portfolio of Java commands operating on XML tagged objects, the platform got early acceptance from major telecom companies for various applications such as managing external IP’s including FPGA and ASIC IP’s, merging dispersed data base content in a centralized viewer, promoting internal reuse among geographically distributed design centers.

AST was selected for its experience and success as a distributor in the EDA & IP market in Israel, a highly active chip design territory. We expect this relationship to lead to a much increased exposure for D&R Enterprise IP Management Platform. We believe that this mature generic platform, initially inspired by the IP_SoC design environment, can now be deployed aggressively to serve the IP_SoC design community, design service companies and electronic system houses.

“We are excited to work with AST. We will be able to deploy in a short time a tremendous set of applications following their client needs” commented Gabrièle Saucier CEO of D&R.

“D&R Enterprise Platform for Internal and External IP management solution offers unique capabilities to address the challenges of IP Management,” remarks Uri Farkash, Director of EDA & IP Operations at AST. “We see tremendous opportunities for D&R’s products within Israel.”

About D&R

Founded in 1997, D&R became the worldwide leader as a web and a B2B portal in the IP/SoC field, with its 70,000 Absolute Unique Visitors / Month (source: Google Analytics), 15,000 daily updated IP/SOC products descriptions, its News broadcast to 35,000 subscribers. For additional information on D&R visit www.design-reuse.com.

As a product , D&R licenses a Java/XML multi application, Configurable Enterprise Platform offering the most innovative and straightforward solution for enterprise hottest needs such as Product cataloguing, Data base Viewer, intranet IP and Design Reuse management, External IP suppliers management, Configurable documentation server and Web support.

About AST

Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST) was established in 1986 as the first independent Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Design Center in Israel. It represents today a group of world-class companies in the areas of EDA, IP, ASIC and ASSP products. Its team of highly skilled sales and applications engineers combines more than 200 years of experience. AST provides turn-key services as well as on-site and remote support and consulting in all the areas of its activity. For more information, visit www.ast.co.il.