NEWARK, Calif. -- June 16, 2004 - Prolific Inc., the leading provider of design optimization and automated standard cell creation software, today announced that Samsung Electronics selected ProGenesis® to accelerate the development of its standard cell libraries, the key building blocks of digital integrated circuit (IC) design. The ProGenesis family of tools is the industry standard for fully automated creation and migration of standard cell libraries.

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 complete standard cell 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.

Prolific's ProGenesis is the industry standard for fully automated creation of standard cells. Key to the tools' success is their ability to generate better-than-hand-drawn quality results in significantly less time than that of other tools or traditional methods. ProGenesis supports all 1.0 micron to 65nm 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).

"After careful study, Prolific tools were chosen for Samsung advance process and design methodology due to their technology, business model, and superior customer support," stated Yoo Moon-Hyun, vice president of the semiconductor CAE team at Samsung Electronics. "Prolific ProGenesis well supports the requirements of advanced memory design."

About Prolific

Prolific Inc.'s IC design optimization software significantly reduces time to tapeout by automatically improving performance or reducing power consumption of cell-based designs. Prolific's customers include companies like AMD, NEC, ARM, and Broadcom. Prolific is a 10-year-old, privately held, profitable company based in Silicon Valley, at 39899 Balentine Dr., Suite 380, Newark, CA 94560, telephone (510) 252-0490, fax (510) 252-0491. For more information, visit http://www.prolificinc.com/.

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