Virtutech(R) Receives eg3.com 'Editor's Tech Choice Award' in Multicore

Hybrid Simulation Capability Announced With Freescale in June Also
Nominated for `Readers Tech Choice Award'
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Virtutech, Inc., the leader in virtualized software development
(VSD) solutions for electronic systems, today announced that its
breakthrough hybrid simulation capability, which leverages its proven
Simics(R) simulator platform, was awarded an "Editor's Tech Choice
Award" in the multicore category and a corresponding nomination for
"Reader's Tech Choice Award" by leading electronic design resource
eg3.com. Voting for the eg3.com "Readers' Tech Choice Award" is open
through September 5, 2008, via the link:
http://www.eg3.com/techchoice/.

"eg3.com's 'Tech Choice Awards' are presented quarterly to
technology innovators who truly bring the most critical ideas to the
marketplace, prompting major technological gains in their respective
industries," said Jason McDonald, senior editor of eg3.com. "Profound
advancements in multicore development, like Virtutech's hybrid
simulation capability, are industry-changing and necessary for the
highly sophisticated multicore processors of today."

Virtutech's hybrid simulation capability solves the critical need
for both software performance analysis and fast software development
of electronics system when developing with multicore processors by
supporting multiple levels of model abstraction.

The Virtutech hybrid simulation approach provides a fully
reversible and deterministic simulation environment for easy
experimentation with partitioning, parallelizing and optimizing
systems and applications. Specifically, the approach allows engineers
to analyze, debug, profile and execute their applications in a fast,
TLM-based, functionally accurate model and then switch to the
cycle-accurate model when they want to perform precise performance
analysis on critical sections of their application. The Simics hybrid
simulation capability was introduced in June 2008 at the Freescale
Technology Forum, and the first implementation supports Freescale
Semiconductor's advanced eight-core QorIQ(TM) P4080 processor.

"The hybrid simulation capability of the Virtutech Simics platform
speeds development targeting our eight-core Freescale QorIQ P4080
processor, giving customers the ability to jumpstart product creation
even before availability of first silicon," said Kamal Khouri, NSD
Ecosystem Solutions Manager for Freescale. "Virtutech deserves
recognition for its innovations and advancements in the embedded
multicore industry."

"The eg3.com 'Editor's Tech Choice Award' and 'Reader's Tech
Choice Award' nomination are timely recognition of Virtutech's
dedication to solve the complex issues involved in multicore
adoption," said Michel Genard, vice president of marketing at
Virtutech, Inc. "Both the new hybrid simulation capability and our
recently announced Simics Accelerator(TM), which boosts performance
and scalability, are designed to enable software developers to fully
leverage the multicore architecture available of their host
environment or in their embedded target."

About Virtutech

Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in product development process
improvement through virtualized software development (VSD). Virtutech
Simics allows for a revolutionary change in the product development
process at a full system level rather than a component level and is
the only commercial solution that delivers the four most important
criteria for successful deployment of hardware virtualization in the
electronics equipment development process: speed, scalability, model
availability, and control. Simics customers report reduced time to
market, better project risk management, lower capital expenditure,
product development cost and maintenance as well as increased quality
and individual productivity. Virtutech serves the needs of the world's
leading OEMs in the high-performance computing, aerospace and defense,
telecommunications, networking industries and semiconductors.
Customers include Cisco, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, GE
Avionics, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nortel, Northrop Grumman,
MontaVista and Wind River. Virtutech is an active participant in
organizations to drive adoption of VSD such as ARM Connected
Community, Eclipse.org, IBM PartnerWorld, Power.org, OSCI and Spirit
Consortium. Virtutech is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more
information, visit www.virtutech.com.

Virtutech and Simics are registered trademarks of Virtutech, Inc.
in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names
are the property of their respective owners.

Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Gina Titus or Michelle Reingold, 415-512-0770
virtutech@schwartz-pr.com
or
Virtutech, Inc.
Michel Genard, 408-392-9144
mgenard@virtutech.com

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