HARDI Electronics Appoints New Distributors in UK and Germany and Expands Worldwide Sales Team

LUND, SWEDEN – APRIL 5, 2005 -- HARDI Electronics, a leader in Rapid ASIC Prototyping Platforms, announced today that due to growing interest and demand in its HAPS system, it has entered into agreements with two new distributors in Europe. Oxfordshire based Saros Technology will be the company’s official partner for the UK and Ireland, while TRIAS Mikroelektronik will take care of Central Europe, Benelux and East Europe from its German offices.

"Since the release of our 3rd generation ASIC prototyping platform HAPS-20 at the end of last year, we have received tremendous interest from our European customer base," said Lars-Eric Lundgren, chief executive officer of HARDI. "A number of industry leaders are already using our product to speed up their ASIC design, and by enlisting the help of these two specialist distributors we are in a much stronger position to offer excellent support to a growing number of customers throughout Europe."

"We believe HAPS-20 is one of the most flexible and advanced FPGA platforms for ASIC prototyping on the market today," said Carey Sayer, Managing Director of Saros Technology. "Its high speed, affordability and I/O connectivity will enable our customers to get to market quicker with better quality designs," he added.

"HARDI’s FPGA board system is designed for all ASIC prototyping needs and the modular approach means that customers can reuse their boards for different projects and configurations, making it a very economical solution," said Klaus Steinheuer, CEO of TRIAS Mikroelektronik. "We are delighted to add their product line to our offering; it complements our existing portfolio of EDA solutions bringing us nearer to our goal of becoming a one-stop-partner for ASIC & FPGA designs," he concluded.

In line with a growing demand for HAPS systems worldwide, HARDI has also recently expanded its sales team in the United States and added distributors in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China and India. For contact information and a complete list of HARDI’s distributors, please visit http://www.synplicity.com/corporate/globallocations/.

About Saros Technology
Saros Technology is a specialist UK distributor which offers a comprehensive range of HDL design tools from Design Entry through to simulation and synthesis. The company also provides advanced verification tools for static functional verification, IP and Design services. The company is based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, with a further support office in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. For more information about Saros, please visit www.saros.co.uk.

About TRIAS Mikroelektronik
TRIAS Mikroelektronik is a one-stop provider of EDA solutions and services for ASIC and FPGA designs offering tools for VHDL and mixed HDL simulation and verification, FPGA & C-synthesis, design capture and management, predictive design analysis, assertion check and automatic multiple-FPGA partitioning for ASIC prototyping.
Besides ASIC and FPGA design services the company also delivers structured and standard cell ASIC products for System-on-Chip, digital, mixed-signal, RF and high voltage applications. For more information about TRIAS, please visit www.trias-mikro.de.

About Synplicity
Synplicity®, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software and hardware solutions for the design and verification of semiconductors that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating design planning, logic synthesis and physical synthesis for FPGA and DSP designs, as well as at-speed verification and prototyping for ASIC & ASSP designs. Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction since 2004 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com.

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