BLUESPEC EXECUTIVES TO OFFER KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS DURING ELECTRONIC SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN WORKSHOP 2006

– Panel to Debate Acceptance of ESL Design Features
Bluespec’s CEO Shiv Tasker –

Waltham, Mass. – January 5, 2006– Bluespec continues its high profile in India in 2006 as its executives present keynote presentations at the Electronic System Level Design Workshop 2006 to be held January 9-10 in Bangalore.

Bluespec Founder Professor Arvind of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will discuss “How Future Systems may be Designed” as the opening keynote January 9. Rishiyur Nikhil, chief technology officer, will offer “A Technical Introduction to ESL Design with Bluespec SystemVerilog” at a keynote scheduled for January 10.

Shiv Tasker, chief executive officer, is a featured panelist who will debate “ESL: Dream or Reality?” also to be held January 10.

This week, Tasker and Nikhil presented, “Beyond RTL: Advanced Digital System Design” during the 19th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI 2006) in Hyderabad, India, while Professor Arvind gave the banquet presentation: “Is Hardware Innovation Over?”.

Details about the Electronic System Level Design Workshop 2006 are found at: http://vlsi-india.net/vsi/activities/esld2006/

For more details on Bluespec, contact George Harper, vice president of marketing, who can be reached at (781) 250-2200 or via email at info@bluespec.com. Or, visit the Bluespec website located at: http://www.bluespec.com.

About Bluespec
Bluespec, Inc. manufactures an industry standards-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolset that significantly raises the level of abstraction for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolset, the only one focused on control and complex datapaths, allows ASIC and FPGA designers to significantly reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling 781-250-2200.

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