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We are very proud to announce that Duolog Technologies have now made available all of their products for hands-on evaluation on the Xuropa Demo Platform.

“The Socrates Lab on Xuropa puts our tools into the hands of our customers within minutes. This has given users the ability to efficiently evaluate Bitwise from the comfort of their desks,” said Ray Bulger, CEO of Duolog Technologies.

Here’s a little background on each of the tools that you can try for yourself:

Socrates Bitwise: Effective HW/SW integration is one of the biggest challenges facing System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams. Registers and memory-maps are at the heart of the HW/SW interface.  Bitwise manages the entire register and memory-map infrastructure for an IP or system, improving inter-team communications, enhancing design quality and greatly reducing workload.

Socrates Weaver: IP reuse and efficient IP integration are essential for successful SoC development. Weaver is a revolutionary tool for IP integration that is the fastest and most efficient way to build and maintain complex systems. The unique rules-based integration methodology employed by Weaver maximizes the potential for IP, subsystem and system reuse.

Socrates Spinner: Modern SoC devices typically support multiple static and dynamic operating modes. This can result in thousands of top-level signals that need to be mapped to hundreds of I/O pins, depending on the target application. Spinner manages this increasingly complex area by specifying and auto-generating all of the logic associated with the chip I/O layer.

Try Spinner, Weaver, and Bitwise for yourself!

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A shameless plug for one of our customers - we’re very proud to announce a new member of the growing community of software vendors that are making the migration to the cloud - Duolog Technologies.

As with our other partners, Duolog Technologies aims to capitalize on the Xuropa Platform’s cloud automation and business tools to reach their worldwide market at a fraction of the cost of traditional sales and marketing efforts.

Now their customers can start evaluating Duolog’s Socrates Bitwise software with just the click of a link - no downloads, no installation, and no licenses to hassle with.  It’s all on the cloud.  Best of all, they can get going on checking out the software without needing sign-off to take time and resources to do it.

“Our customers are global and as we roll out new products and initiatives we look for new, effective, and economical ways to drive our engagements” said Ray Bulger, Founder and CEO of Duolog Technologies. “Via the cloud, Xuropa enables us to immediately make our software available worldwide to our customers. We are now able to engage and support our customers without the traditional logistical and IT overhead.”

Welcome!  And good luck in growing your global business!

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Design and Verification Engineers Can Now Test-Drive More Software in Online Labs

San Francisco, California – October 13, 2009 – Xuropa^SM Incorporated today announced that Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) has added Incisive® Formal Verifier and Incisive Enterprise Specman-Elite ® Testbench to its Xuropa Online Labs.

Based upon the Cadence® SoC Functional Verification Kit, approved design and verification engineers can quickly and easily try out these two additional Cadence verification products and learn new techniques online. The SoC Functional Verification Kit automates and eases the adoption of new verification technologies that increase productivity and project predictability, from verification planning to closure.

Users can now also run testbench simulation and formal analysis on example circuits at their convenience from their desktops. Using only a standard web browser, approved visitors to Xuropa Labs™ can now access the following two new labs:

• Block, Chip, and System Testbench Verification with Incisive Enterprise Specman-Elite Testbench
• Connectivity Verification, Productivity Flows, and Designer Level Formal Analysis with Incisive Formal Verifier

The service is free to Xuropa members and dramatically simplifies the process of evaluating EDA software products. Users can begin to test-drive applications in minutes vs. the days or weeks it used to take to get agreements signed, software downloaded, and license keys installed.

Simplified Initial Product Evaluation

“We have seen the value that Xuropa Online Labs bring to enable customers to test-drive Incisive Verification IP online, and we are excited to meet more customer needs by expanding our offering,” said Sarah Lynne Lundell, Enterprise Verification Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence. “Today’s schedules are so tight, it is important to simplify the initial evaluation process. Removing the need for a Software Product License Agreement to evaluate new software lets design and verification engineers focus on the potential productivity, predictability and quality gains for their projects.”

Face-to-face meetings are always going to be important, but as design teams are now global, software vendors need to simultaneously engage multiple locations and accelerate the engagement process.

“The Xuropa Platform uses the power of Cloud Computing and web 2.0 technologies to accelerate the software sales process and increase revenues for software vendors,” Xuropa CEO and founder James Colgan explained. “The Xuropa team is very happy to see Cadence realize the returns of the platform and make more of their industry leading technology available on the platform.”

Availability

Xuropa Online Labs featuring Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier and Specman Elite Testbench are available today and accessible at no cost to authorized Xuropa members. Go to www.xuropa.com and sign-in for access. For information about how to create your own Online Lab, or any of the other Xuropa Platform products, please contact Xuropa at the address below.

About Xuropa Incorporated

The Xuropa Platform and a Xuropa Lab™ bridge the gap between traditional Enterprise Software and Software-as-a-Service business and distribution models. Xuropa^SM Incorporated was founded by veterans from the internet, IT, and electronics industries with the goal of transitioning Enterprise Software to a SaaS model to increase revenues and lower costs.  http://www.xuropa.com/

Contact:

sales@xuropa.com

+1 (415) 727-5741

Cadence, Specman-Elite and Incisive are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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