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September 20, 2005 - Santa Clara, California - Knowlent Corp. announced today that it has joined the VSI Alliance (VSIA), the electronic industry's leading IP and SoC standards body. As part of the organization, Knowlent is participating in VSIA's IP Quality group to help improve and standardize the verification of analog IP.

Knowlent's Opal Electrical Verification Platforms (EVPs) comprehensively and automatically verify the analog or PHY (physical) layer of PCI Express, Serial ATA or XAUI interfaces designs before tape-out to avoid post silicon surprises.

"We are pleased to become part of VSIA and contribute to addressing the technical and commercial issues that improve the quality and reuse of analog IP," said Sandipan Bhanot, CEO of Knowlent. "By working with VSIA and its members, we will improve and speed up the verification of high speed interfaces by helping to develop a robust verification methodology for producing high quality re-useable analog IP."

"Having companies with new types of IP join VSIA is a win for us as well as the IP and SoC community," remarked Mike Kaskowitz, VSIA president. "Knowlent's electrical verification knowledge will help raise the bar for IP standards associated with high speed interface quality and reuse."

About Knowlent Corporation
Knowlent Corporation is a member of ARM's Connected Community, and is a Silicon-Valley-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Intellectual Property (IP) startup providing Analog Verification Platforms (EVPs) for standards-based high speed serial interface verification. For more information, please visit Knowlent at www.knowlent.com or call (408) 748-0600 or email info@knowlent.com.

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SOURCE: Knowlent Corporation