The EDA marketplace and its designers expect world-class integrated solutions. Working together with industry leaders, DesignAdvance^® is committed to facilitating open access, integration and interoperability of its current and future applications.

Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported 2004 revenues of approximately $1.2 billion, and has approximately 4,700 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.

Intercept Technology Inc. is a privately held electronic systems design and software development corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia. It's flagship layout product, Pantheon, was initially introduced in the mid-90's and quickly made Intercept a market leader in its ability to facilitate the completion of RF, Hybrid, MCM, Analog, Digital, and Mixed-Signal designs within a single application. Today, Intercept offers a complete design flow with Mozaix schematic capture, INDX library management, and a suite of third-party database translators to provide a streamlined migration path from other vendors' environments. As an engineering company that is technology driven and customer oriented, Intercept strives to offer advanced design applications with the flexibility users need. To that end, all Intercept applications are ASCII based and run native on all computing platforms, while customer software requests are incorporated in a rapid release cycle, providing users the benefit of leading-edge technology in real time.

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 50,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P Midcap 400 and Russell 2000 indices. For more information on PTC, please visit http://www.ptc.com.