Axiom Continues to Expands Sales and Marketing Effort in Asia

Appoints Distributor in Taiwan to Play in the Fast Growing Asian Market

 Milpitas, California, September11, 2012, --Axiom Design Automation, provider of fastest path to verification closure for semiconductor design today announced that capitalizing on the strong momentum generated by its DesignerUVM product launch, it has appointed Kaviaz Technology to promote and sell its popular verification products in Taiwan.

 “Axiom took an early lead in RTL debugging and invested heavily into integrated debugging and coverage closure technology”, said Badru Agarwala, President and CEO, Axiom Design Automation. “Today we have one of the most advanced verification platform in the world. The successful integration of patent pending UVM debug technology with our best-in-class integrated RTL debugger has created tremendous interest in our verification products and demand for our technology is exploding worldwide. Earlier we appointed our first Asian distributor in Korea and now we are following up with distributors in China and Taiwan. I am very excited to appoint Kaviaz Technology to bring the benefit of Axiom’s advantage to customers in Taiwan. Kaviaz has a proven track record of successfully introducing new leading edge products in Taiwan and I am happy to see Axiom products added to Kaviaz’s portfolio”.

 Axiom’s  MPSim is industry’s price/performance leading SystemVerilog verification platform. MPSim with its new patent pending UVM debugging environment is the only SystemVerilog simulator with a highly advanced integrated debugging environment for UVM testbenches. Combined with multi-core support, compiled testbench including SystemVerilog and OpenVera, comprehensive coverage closure technology and best-in-class integrated graphical debugger, MPSim offers the most complete verification solution in a single unified kernel architecture for maximum performance.

 “We have been talking to various Axiom customers in Taiwan and all seem to agree that Axiom has the best integrated debug technology”, stated Timing Huang, President and CEO of Kaviaz Technology. “As designs get complex, debugging is becoming a major issue, especially in adopting UVM methodologies. Axiom’s SystemVerilog simulator, with its unique UVM debugging and coverage closure technology, together with their flexible licensing model, is the right product at the right time for Taiwan. We are very excited to be the sole distributor of Axiom verification products in Taiwan and expect to make significant inroads into the Taiwanese verification business”.

 About Axiom

Axiom Design Automation is a company focused on providing the best-in-class verification platform to address the growing complexity of today’s FPGAs, ICs, SOCs and systems. Axiom’s flagship product, MPSim is the state-of-the-art, industry proven high performance SystemVerilog simulator integrated with an advanced debugger, compiled testbench automation, multiple clock domain verification and comprehensive coverage analysis for quick verification closure. MPSim incorporates SystemVerilog and OpenVera testbench automation with SVA and coverage analysis in a single kernel architecture for maximum performance. MPSim offers significant new capabilities including the newly released patent pending  DesignerUVM and complete support for VMM, OVM and UVM.

For more information, please visit www.axiom-da.com.

About Kaviaz Technology

Kaviaz is a HsinChu-based EDA & IP distributor dedicated to providing professional service and solution to the semiconductor and electronics industry.  Kaviaz' broad customer-base covers foundries, mask houses, ASIC design service companies, fabless design houses, to electronics system makers.

 For more information, contact:

Ghulam Nurie

gnurie@axiom-da.com

Joseph Ku

joseph@kaviaztech.com