Intrinsix joins Real Intent's verification services partners program

Intrinsix to Offer Verix Formal Functional Verification Services

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2002-- Real Intent, an EDA company in the assertion-based formal verification market, announced today that it has established a Verification Service Partner Program, a 3rd party program for the Company's formal functional verification service partners. Intrinsix is among the first to join.

Intrinsix has used Real Intent's Verix™ family of formal functional verification products and is fully trained and capable of providing Verix formal functional verification services to their customers.

According to Dr. Prakash Narain, Real Intent's President and CEO, "Assertion-based formal verification is a key component in the verification of ASIC designs. Our service program addresses the needs of our customers with a worldwide network of verification service partners, who can help them achieve better verification productivity."

Intrinsix Corp. is the largest independent electronic product design outsourcing company. Intrinsix offers Verix formal functional verification expertise and services as well as simulation-based functional verification expertise and services. James M. Lee, Technical Manager for the Intrinsix Silicon Valley design center remarked, "Verix has proven to be valuable for early detection of bugs prior to simulation and synthesis. We see immediate benefits from its automatic assertion generation and analysis capabilities. With it, verification coverage is incrementally improved by adding user-defined assertions."

About Intrinsix

Intrinsix Corp. is the largest independent Electronic Product Design Outsourcing company. Intrinsix' highly experienced engineers architect, design and verify complex electronic systems. These systems are most often System on Chip (SoC) designs in networking, wireless and digital media applications. As a result of the demanding feature and time-to-market characteristics of these applications, Intrinsix rapidly delivers its SoC hardware and deeply embedded software to customers by using state of the art co-design and co-verification techniques. Intrinsix provides comprehensive ASIC and SoC; architecting, design, simulation, synthesis, verification and test services to leading electronics companies that have devices produced by semiconductor vendors such as Texas Instruments, IBM, Agere, LSI, Philips/VLSI, Infineon, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu and Samsung among others. The company's lengthy list of successful customers and partners attests to the high quality of its engineering and results-oriented teamwork. Intrinsix has a network of Design Centers strategically located throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. Intrinsix Corporation headquarters are at 33 Lyman Street, Westboro, MA 01581, Tel: (508) 836-4100, Fax (508) 836-4222, http://www.intrinsix.com.

About Real Intent

Real Intent, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers award-winning Verix formal functional verification products for

electronic design. These products give users the capability of comprehensively verifying designs early and significantly

reduce the cost of verifying integrated circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Real Intent is located at 3910

Freedom Circle, Suite 102A, Santa Clara, CA 95054, tel.: (408) 982-5444, fax: (408) 982-5443, email:

info@realintent.com, web: http://www.realintent.com.

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Press Contacts:

Stephen R. Pollock

Real Intent

(408) 982-5412

pollock@realintent.com

Georgia Marszalek
ValleyPR for Real Intent

(650) 345-7477

Georgia@ValleyPR.com

Josh Schissler
Intrinsix Corp.

(508) 836-4100

josh@intrinsix.com