Lateral Sands joins Real Intent’s Verification Service Partners Program

Lateral Sands will offer Verix Formal Functional Verification Services

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 10, 2003 - Lateral Sands, a digital hardware design services company announced today that it has joined Real Intent's Verification Service Partner Program, a 3rd party program for formal functional verification service partners.

Lateral Sands, a leading design and verification service provider, has used Real Intent's Verix™ family of formal functional verification products for several months. The company's engineers are fully trained and proficient at providing formal functional verification services to both new and existing customers. Lateral Sands will be offering its clients a range of products and services based on the Verix™ technologies.

Anil Gupta, Executive VP and General Manager of Real Intent said, "Verification risks and complexity are the number one challenge facing leading chip design teams today. There is worldwide interest in our products, and we understand the importance of outstanding support and services. We are pleased to work closely with a service firm of Lateral Sands' caliber. Their deep understanding of VHDL /Verilog design and verification makes them a tremendous asset as a Verification Service Partner."

Dean Stevens, Lateral Sands' President of North American Operations asserts, "We are very excited about the opportunity to use Real Intent's leading edge technology to ensure that our customers build silicon that works the first time, with the shortest possible development cycles. We firmly believe that Real Intent has the business momentum and the products to make formal functional verification an integral part of mainstream design flows."

About Real Intent
Real Intent, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers award-winning assertion-based formal 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 (SoC). Real Intent is located at 3910 Freedom Circle, Suite 102A, Santa Clara, CA 95054, tel.: (408) 982-5444, fax: (408) 982-5443,web: http://www.realintent.com

About Lateral Sands
Lateral Sands is a digital hardware design services firm specializing in the design and verification of complex hardware & software. The company's skilled teams offer the highest quality professional services to ensure that products reach the market on time and on budget. The group has addressed semiconductor challenges for some of the world's largest and most advanced technology companies. The organization is based in Perth, Western Australia and Santa Clara, California. The Silicon Valley office is at 2336 Walsh Ave., Ste. E; Santa Clara, CA 95051; www.lateralsands.com. 

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