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VLSI's Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping System Wins EDN 1998 Innovation of the Year Award SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1999--VLSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VLSI - news) today announced its Velocity(TM) Rapid Silicon Prototyping (RSP) system won the EDN 1998 Innovation of the Year Award in the embedded computing category. EDN Magazine's exclusive annual awards program honors outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry. EDN Magazine technical editors selected Velocity RSP as a finalist for the Innovation of the Year Award on March 4, 1999. Winners were chosen by EDN's over 200,000 worldwide readers through an online ballot at the EDN Access web site, www.ednmag.com. Winning companies were announced at an awards banquet on April 27 and will be featured in the May 13, 1999 issue of EDN. Bob Payne, vice president of Strategic Technology at VLSI, said in accepting the award: ''Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping was created to boost engineering productivity and solve time-to-market problems to make deep submicron, system-on-a-chip silicon practical for broad use. I would like to thank the team members who helped to bring the Velocity vision into reality and who have expanded this vision into VLSI's customer community, and EDN Magazine for this recognition.'' Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping Introduced in September 1998, VLSI's Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping design methodology charts an innovative course for the future of multimillion-transistor system-on-a-chip design techniques. Using Rapid Silicon Prototyping, engineers derive new custom ICs from real-world prototype ICs built up from reusable on-chip intellectual property. The reusable building block structure of the silicon prototype enables engineers to integrate additional IP into a final design or to ''edit out'' unneeded circuit features. Rapid Silicon Prototyping development systems integrate prototype ICs with board-level facilities for memory, debugging, communications, databus extensions and field programmable gate arrays. Engineering teams can then debug, test and verify a system-on-a-chip design, observing its behavior running actual software at or near real-time execution speeds. This significantly shortens development cycles and increases the probability that the resulting custom IC design will perform as specified when first samples come back from fabrication. The VLSI Velocity initiative has received overwhelmingly favorable comment from IC industry observers as a significant breakthrough in narrowing the ''design productivity gap'' that holds IC designers back from taking full advantage of the benefits offered by today's deep-submicron chip manufacturing technologies. Velocity RSP7 Rapid Silicon Prototyping System The Velocity RSP7 Rapid Silicon Prototyping system is the first member of the Velocity family. Velocity RSP7 integrates a high-performance enhanced ARM7TDMI-based ASIC with board-level memory, a large capacity FPGA, communications ports, debugging connections, and off-chip extensibility of the AMBA buses. These features allow users to add and subtract logic blocks from the prototype ASIC to create production-ready custom silicon. Velocity RSP7 enables full-speed real-time analysis and debugging of hardware and concurrent software development. This is a low-cost alternative to more expensive and less robust emulation systems, and facilitates evaluation and validation of highly integrated solutions. For more information on VLSI's Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping design methodology, readers should contact velocity@vlsi.com or access the Velocity home page, www.vlsi.com/velocity. About VLSI Technology VLSI Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures custom and semi-custom integrated circuits for leading firms in the wireless communications, networking, consumer digital entertainment and advanced computing markets. The Company is based in San Jose with 1998 revenues from continuing operations of $547.8 million, and approximately 2,200 employees worldwide. For more information, visit the VLSI homepage, www.vlsi.com. Note to Editors: Velocity is a trademark of VLSI Technology, Inc. All other names and marks are the property of their respective holders. Contact: VLSI Technology, Inc. Samer Bahou, 408/474-5570 samer.bahou@vlsi.com