NEWARK, Calif. -- February 3, 2004 - Prolific Inc., the leading provider of automated standard cell creation software, today announced that BAE Systems selected ProGenesis® to accelerate the development of its standard cell libraries, the key building blocks of digital integrated circuit (IC) design. BAE Systems will use Prolific's ProGenesis tools for the automated development of libraries for its defense and aerospace electronics systems. The ProGenesis family of tools is the industry standard for fully automated creation and migration of standard cell libraries.

"We performed a comprehensive evaluation of ProGenesis and found it to be superior to the other cell generation tools we evaluated," said Dan Kouba, lead engineer for library development at BAE Systems. "We will be using the tools to develop our RH15 Radiation Hardened 0.15 micron libraries. The ProGenesis methodology for creating layouts is key to our ability to develop the libraries in parallel with our internal foundry upgrade."

The increasing complexity in semiconductor process technology has turned many library development teams toward automated layout creation in order to manage frequent process changes and meet aggressive time-to-market requirements. ProGenesis users can create Radiation Hardened libraries today, and automatically re-create at will whenever the design rules or any other design requirements change. Automatic integration of these changes is especially important in leading-edge applications, because lithography "recipe" changes can occur mid-project.

ProGenesis supports all 1.0 micron to 90nm process design rules, Design For Manufacture (DFM) practices to increase silicon yield and reliability, and sub-wavelength optimization Resolution Enhancement Techniques (RET): Optical Proximity Correction (OPC); Strong and Attenuated Phase-Shift Mask (PSM); Scattering Bars (SB); and Off-Axis Illumination (OAI).

About Prolific

Founded in 1995, Prolific Inc. develops the leading software for automatically creating standard cells without giving up custom design styles. Prolific's ProGenesis® suite allows designers to quickly and accurately create optimized standard-cell libraries using design-specific information contained in a SPICE netlist, process-specific information defined in design rules, and designer-specific options specified in the cell template. Prolific's ProTiming™ tool integrates the optimization of standard cell libraries into the mainstream EDA flow, enabling design-specific standard cells to be inserted on the fly during the synthesis and place-and-route phase of the EDA design flow. Prolific is headquartered in Newark, Calif., at 39899 Balentine Dr., Suite 380, Newark, CA 94560, telephone 510/252-0490, fax 510/252-0491. For more information, visit www.prolificinc.com.

About BAE Systems

BAE Systems North America is a high-technology U.S. company employing more than 25,000 people who live and work in some 30 states, the District of Columbia, and the United Kingdom. The company is dedicated to solving its customers' needs with highly innovative and leading edge solutions across the defense electronics, systems, information technology, and services arenas.

ProGenesis is a registered trademark and ProTiming is a trademark of Prolific, Inc. PrimeTime is a registered trademark of Synopsys, Inc. Prolific acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.