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Micrologic Design Automation Joins UMC EDA Partner program

West Hollywood, CA - Sep 4, 2007 -- Micrologic Design Automation, Inc., an electronic design automation (EDA) developer, today announced that it has joined EDA Partners program of United Microelectronics Corporation, (NYSE: UMC; TSE: 2303). The program promotes EDA support and interoperability between UMC and other companies' design tools.

Micrologic's nanoRVInteractive™ and VisuaLVS™ EDA tools integrate with Cadence's Virtuoso LE/XL/GXL Layout Editor platform, offering interactive Reliability-Aware design environment and Automatic LVS Correction system that reduce reliability and LVS verification time by more then 50%. Micrologic will provide a built-in support for UMC technologies including deep nanometer ranges.

"We are pleased to provide a full support for UMC technologies to enhance the industry standards. Our goal is to provide integrated circuit designers, using Cadence's Virtuoso layout Editor platform, with a built-in support for UMC technologies to aid them with reliability and LVS productivity, especially with complex nanometer designs!" said Danny Rittman, President and founder of Micrologic.  

nanoRVInteractive™ brings interactive automation to the current manual process of integrated circuits layout design, providing reliability solutions, reducing design time and pushing products to market sooner at reduced costs. nanoRVInteractive™ is a nanometer range EDA tool that interactively eliminates reliability issues during the construction of integrated circuit’s physical design. The tool automatically checks for reliability phenomenon including but not limited to electromigration, self heat and voltage drop (IR Drop) during the construction of IC layout, creating a Reliability-Aware mask design environment.

VisuaLVS™ - New, innovative EDA software which is based on recent real-time technology. This program is a plug-in into Cadence’s Virtuoso platform, enabling automatic, interactive LVS (Layout versus Schematic) correction environment. The program reads a circuit netlist and the results of LVS check (From the Industry’s standard LVS checkers) and automatically corrects LVS mismatches. Our system provides a powerful tool that will eliminate LVS issues during the integrated circuit physical design phase.

About UMC

UMC (NYSE: UMC, TSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) designs, including 90nm copper, 0.13um copper, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. UMC is also a leader in 300mm manufacturing; Fab 12A in Taiwan and Singapore-based Fab 12i are both in volume production for a variety of customer products. UMC employs approximately 10,500 people worldwide and has offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States. UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com.

About Micrologic, Inc.

Micrologic Design Automation, Inc. develops semiconductor design software for electronic design automation, (EDA) intellectual property (IP) and design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions enabling integrated circuit corporations to meet or shorten time-to-market objectives, improve nanometer designs quality, reliability and performance and handling multimillion-gate designs. The company’s products enable semiconductor companies to increase productivity and achieve predictable success from systems to silicon.

The corporate headquarters is in West Hollywood, California.  We are in the process of establishing a world-wide network of sales & support personnel to deliver best EDA products and support.  

nanoRVInteractive™ and VisuaLVS™ are trademarks of Micrologic Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners.