ANSOFT SHOWCASES CUSTOMERS' DESIGN SOLUTIONS AT THE DESIGN AUTOMATION
CONFERENCE

Customers from Advanced Micro Devices, ITT Cannon and Olin Interconnect
Technologies will demonstrate how Ansoft has expanded their design
horizons while saving time-to-market.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA --Design Automation Conference--June 12, 1995 --Ansoft
Corporation, the leading supplier of electromagnetic field
simulation-based electromechanical (EM) and signal integrity (SI) design
tools, will feature AMD, ITT Cannon and Olin design solutions achieved
using Maxwell Eminence, Spicelink, and Extractor. Exhibit attendees will
be able to discuss their design issues with engineers from these companies
and with Ansoft engineers.

Ansoft's Eminence, Spicelink, and Extractor are being demonstrated on major
Unix workstations and on PCs running Windows NT at the Design Automation
Conference in San Francisco, CA, June 12-14 at Booth 2212.

Ansoft DAC Booth 2212 highlights customers and their successes.

Nick Csendes, President of Ansoft Corporation, invites all designers
dealing with issues such as parasitic effects, crosstalk, radiation,
compliance, power and signal integrity to visit the Ansoft Booth 2212 to
talk with customers who have successfully found solutions to their
critical design issues.

"We want to show you what we can do today not just a promise for the
future. Our customers are testimony to the quality and reliability of our
current suite of design tools. We invite design engineers to talk with
Ansoft customers who have found and implemented enhanced design solutions
using Ansoft SI software tools," said Csendes.

Ansoft Customers.

Bill Beale, Package Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices uses Maxwell
Extractor to study parasitic effects, signal degradation and crosstalk
prior to the selection of the package or assembly of the final device.
Depending upon the clock speeds associated with a device, the crosstalk
may become excessive indicating an alternative package design is necessary
in order to meet noise margins. "With Maxwell, AMD is able to understand
and predict performance of our entire product, including the effects of
the package," said Beale.

ITT Cannon used to rely on two dimensional software tools before using
Maxwell to simulate new and existing connector designs to provide
customers with performance data and to design new connectors.

Using Maxwell, ITT Cannon eliminated intermediate prototype hardware
fabrication and laboratory measurements to evaluate new design, both a
costly and time-consuming process. "Time to market is reduced because we
eliminate intermediate prototype and testing steps with simulation
analysis using Maxwell by Ansoft," states Jens Ipsen, Electrical Engineer
at ITT Cannon.

"Because Ansoft provides different levels of analysis, ITT Cannon can
choose a tool that specifically suits a particular design problem. The
choice of solvers and methods gives us confidence that the software is
robust - our tests prove its accuracy," Ipsen concluded.

Another Ansoft customer, Olin Interconnect Technologies uses Maxwell
Spicelink to design high I/O count, high performance metal ball grid array
packages. BGAs (plastic, ceramic, area array tab, and metal) are becoming
an attractive alternative to high lead count packaging technology due to
their improved l/O density and better electrical and thermal performance.

Dawit Solomon, Package Development Engineer at Olin states, "Olin gained a
tremendous amount of insight into the electrical aspects of MBGA packaging
by using Ansoft's interconnect modeling tools. Maxwell software increased
our confidence level in the package characterization and electrical
performance."

Additional DAC Activities

Ansoft will participate in an Exhibitor presentation Monday, June 12 at
9:40 in Room 135 to discuss how to apply high-frequency design principles
to reduce radiated emissions and susceptibility in electronic design.

Ansoft will participate with Analogy in conducting educational seminars on
enhanced mixed signal performance with electromagnetic simulation using
Analogy's Saber and Ansoft's Maxwell. The seminar is being held in
Analogy's Demo Suite on June 12 and June 14 at 9:00 am. (Analogy announced
May 17 they will be marketing Ansoft tools in Europe . )

An Ansoft hosted luncheon/seminar "Breakthrough Technology For Next
Generation High Performance Design", on June 12 at Noon, will feature
speaker Zoltan Cendes, founder of Ansoft.

Ansoft Products, Pricing and Availability

Maxwell Eminence Version 4.0, a unique integrated solution to the whole
spectrum of high speed design issues from signal delays to EMC/EMI, is
priced in the US at $49,900. Maxwell Spicelink, for advanced extraction
and simulation for waveform analysis, is priced in the US at $34,900.
Maxwell Extractor, an interconnect extraction tool providing RLGC matrices
and SPICE models of 2D and 3D physical interconnects, is priced in the US
at $19,900. Ansoft software is available for PCs running Windows NT and
workstations running Unix.

Ansoft Corporation is the worldwide leading supplier of electromagnetic
field simulation design tools, with customers in the automotive, magnetic
recording, medical, semiconductor, communications, computer and aerospace
sectors. Ansoft entered the electromechanical market with its Maxwell EM
2D Field Simulation in 1985 and the signal integrity market with Maxwell
Spicelink in 1992. Eminence was released in June, 1994.

Ansoft is privately held and headquartered at Four Station Square, Suite
660, Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1119, USA. Phone: 412-261-3200. Fax:
412-471-9427. E-mail: SIinfo@ansoft.com.

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