ChipVision Design Systems Appoints Thomas Blaesi as President and CEO

Top Low-Power Company Taps Industry Veteran to Guide Next Level of Business Development

Oldenburg, Germany/ San Jose, CA - December, 6, 2006

ChipVision Design Systems, the low-power specialist in electronic design automation, today announced the appointment of Thomas F. Blaesi as president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective December 1, 2006. Blaesi brings to ChipVision 20 years of solid electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor industry experience in Silicon Valley and Europe, spanning design, strategic marketing, business development and corporate management.

“With his broad understanding of all facets of high-tech and his proven track record in business development, Thomas Blaesi is ideally positioned to take ChipVision through its next phase of growth,” said Dr. Wolfgang Nebel, founder, chairman of the board and chief technology advisor at ChipVision, “As CEO, he will apply his demonstrated expertise in global business expansion and his strategic marketing vision so that ChipVision can help leading-edge companies achieve their productivity goals.”

“ChipVision is uniquely positioned to assist companies developing mobile communications, networking, consumer and automotive applications, significantly improving their productivity in power-sensitive designs,” said Thomas Blaesi. “Our ORINOCO^® low-power design optimization solution helps them achieve substantial power savings and clearly addresses their need to design chips faster. I am strongly committed to help these companies make the right decisions up front for their next-generation design flows.”

Thomas Blaesi is responsible for leading ChipVision as it expands its worldwide business. Previously, Blaesi served as vice president of marketing and worldwide business development at SIGMA-C until its acquisition by Synopsys last quarter. Earlier, he was vice president of marketing and business development for Pact XPP Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor maker and IP-licensing company in Santa Clara, Calif.; vice president of marketing and business development, and senior vice president and general manager for design services at Silicon Design Systems Inc., Cupertino, Calif.; director of business development and director of system-chip design services for Cadence Design Systems. He also held various management positions at LSI Logic, and was an application engineer for Valid Logic Systems of Munich. Mr. Blaesi holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.

About ChipVision Design Systems

ChipVision Design Systems is the leading supplier of low power system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. ChipVision’s ORINOCO^® software enables semiconductor developers to estimate and optimize the energy dissipation in critical blocks of their design prior to RTL development. The impact of this electronic system-level (ESL) approach is significant energy savings in less time. The company’s solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC^TM. ChipVision is headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany, and has offices in Munich and San Jose, Calif. For more information about ChipVision and its products and services, visit www.chipvision.com.

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