SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 21, 2006 -- Tensilica(R), Inc. and HARDI Electronics today announced that ASIC designs using Tensilica's popular Diamond Standard processor cores can now be prototyped and verified on the HARDI ASIC Prototyping System (HAPS). HARDI Electronics is now part of Tensilica's Diamond Standard partners program.

"Our Diamond Standard processors have been prototyped and verified with great success on HAPS products by several of our customers and partners," stated Larry Przywara, Tensilica's director of strategic alliances. "Our customers appreciate the flexibility and cost-effectiveness that the highly modular HAPS products provide. HARDI is a solid platform for verifying multi-million gate ASIC designs."

"HAPS is the ideal platform for customers of Tensilica's popular Diamond Standard processors to use to prototype and verify their ASIC designs, as well as get a head start in generating embedded software," stated Lars-Eric Lundgren, president of HARDI Electronics. "The HAPS system can scale from small projects to providing industry leading capacity for large ASIC designs, so it is suitable for any Diamond processor-based SOC prototype."

About Tensilica's Diamond Standard Processors
Tensilica's Diamond Standard processors are a set of six off-the-shelf synthesizable cores that range from area-efficient, low-power controllers to an audio processor and a high-performance DSP, all of which lead the industry in their respective categories both in lowest power and highest performance. The Diamond Standard processors are supported by an optimized set of Diamond Standard software tools and a wide range of industry infrastructure partners. They are available directly from Tensilica and through a growing list of ASIC and foundry partners.

About HAPS
HAPS (HARDI ASIC Prototyping System) is the first modular FPGA board system providing high speed, high capacity, real-time debugging and full ASIC functionality for ASIC prototyping designers. The system is composed of multi-FPGA motherboards and standard or user developed daughter boards. To accommodate very large designs, users can connect several mother­boards in many different ways. HAPS boards give designers virtually the same functionality as the ASIC, at speeds approaching that of the ASIC.

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.

About Tensilica
Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit http://www.tensilica.com.

Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Synplicity is a registered trademark of Synplicity Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners

Press Contact:
Tensilica, Inc., Paula Jones, 408-327-7343
Tanis Communications, Erika Powelson, 831-424-1811
HARDI Electronics, Doug Lyons, 408-849-4707,