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CAE Software provides design platform for ICs/boards.

April 8, 2004 - DesignerSI™ combines with Nexxim™ circuit simulation, HFSS™, and Q3D Extractor™ to deliver system-level signal-integrity (SI) solution for IC/package/board co-design and verification. It includes design capture interface, optimization and tuning, post-processing, and system-level simulation for key signal-integrity metrics. Features include full schematic editor and design environment with project manager, component libraries, and message manager.

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Release date: April 5, 2004

Ansoft Announces DesignerSI - Powered by Nexxim, HFSS and Q3D Extractor, DesignerSI Expands the Ansoft Designer Platform to High-Performance Signal Integrity

PITTSBURGH - April 5, 2004 - Ansoft Corporation (NASDAQ: ANST) announces DesignerSI™, a powerful design environment that combines with Nexxim(tm), HFSS(tm) and Q3D Extractor(tm), to deliver the most complete system-level signal-integrity (SI) solution for IC/package/board co-design and verification. DesignerSI accurately predicts the performance of high-speed systems commonly found in optical networks, gigabit computers and communication backplanes.

"Molex customers demand fully characterized high-performance connectors, cables and backplanes," said Gus Panella, Advanced Development Engineering Manager at Molex. "The integration of DesignerSI, Nexxim, HFSS and Q3D Extractor streamlines the interconnect design and analysis process. This enables us to focus on product design, rather than on tool integration, and ultimately deliver maximum value to our customers."

Ansoft Designer revenue growth exceeded 70 percent this past year, fueled by Ansoft's strategy to combine design capture, parametric analysis, optimization, tuning and Solver on Demand(tm) for RF/mixed-signal design. DesignerSI expands this market-proven design methodology to high-performance signal-integrity applications.

DesignerSI allows signal-integrity engineers to evaluate and optimize design performance and reduce overall design cycle time and costs. By combining Ansoft's best-in-class circuit simulation product, Nexxim, with fast dynamic links to HFSS and Q3D Extractor, DesignerSI provides a powerful environment for performing system-level analyses while making simulation details transparent at the component level. DesignerSI includes a design capture interface (via schematic or netlist), optimization and tuning, post-processing and system-level simulation for key signal-integrity metrics including TDR (time-domain reflectometry), BER (bit error rate) and eye diagrams.

DesignerSI New Features:

• Design environment with project manager, component libraries, message manager

• Full schematic editor

• Frequency- and time-domain system simulator

• Optimetrics (optimization, tuning and swept parametric analysis)

• Component library of behavioral and electrical models

• Co-simulation with Nexxim circuit simulator

• Dynamic parameterized links to HFSS, Ansoft's full-wave 3D EM simulator, and Q3D Extractor, Ansoft's 3D quasi-static simulator

• IBIS model support

• SPICE netlist import wizard

• HSpice(r) compatibility

• W-element and S-parameter support

To learn more about DesignerSI, please visit www.ansoft.com/products/si/designersi/.

Availability:

DesignerSI will begin commercial shipments in the second quarter of calendar year 2004. The product will first ship on PCs running Windows(r) 2000 and XP, followed by Sun Solaris(r) and Linux(r).

About Ansoft

Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), automotive electronic systems and power electronics. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America, Asia and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com.

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John Arnold

Ansoft Corporation

TEL: 412.261.3200

FAX: 412.471.9427

EMAIL: arnold@ansoft.com

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Phone: 412-261-3200
FAX: 412-471-9427

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Name: Ansoft Corp.
Address: 4 Station Square, Suite 660
City: Pittsburgh
State: PA
ZIP: 15219
Country: USA
Phone: 412-261-3200
FAX: 412-471-9427
http://www.ansoft.com

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