Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2001

RF Modeling Products and Services to Be Used in

Deep Submicron Designs for Bluetooth and 802.11 Applications

Celestry Design Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of Silicon Accurate Sign-off(TM) physical analysis solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industry, today announced that Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) (San Jose, California) has selected Celestry for its DC to RF device modeling products and services for Cypress' high performance wireless communications products, including those targeted at Bluetooth and 802.11 applications.

This includes Celestry's device model development products -- BSIMPro+(TM), RF-Pro(TM) and NoisePro(TM) -- and Celestry Labs modeling and characterization services for device development and fast prototyping. Celestry was selected because it is recognized as the leading provider of the most precise and complete modeling software and services for all types of designs from DC to RF. Celestry Labs provides unique process characterization services that are critical for accurate circuit design based on today's and near-future processes.

"We selected Celestry because their products enable our modeling engineers to become proficient much more quickly than competing tools. In addition, our experienced engineers believe that the accuracy and verbosity of the Celestry products are best-in-class," noted Dr. Scott Savage, Cypress Modeling Group Leader. "Celestry was the best choice, because they have been the leader in providing device modeling and physical analysis solutions for deep submicron designs. The knowledge and assistance from Celestry has been a key asset in quickly establishing our new modeling projects."

"Celestry's modeling solutions have been chosen by almost all of the world's leading silicon manufacturers. We are pleased to have this significant corporate wide commitment from Cypress. It confirms our leadership in device modeling for traditional CMOS technology, which has now been extended into the RF arena," said Dr. Zhihong Liu, President and CEO of Celestry.

About Celestry's DC to RF Modeling Products

BSIMPro+ provides the first commercially available model extraction for BSIM4 and SOI models, which are critical for very deep submicron, RF applications, and other new silicon processes. RFPro offers RF modeling and silicon measurement capabilities for active and passive devices. NoisePro is a turnkey solution for noise measurement and model extraction. These are vital considerations for analog RF and Mixed-signal designs.

About Celestry

Celestry is the leading provider of physical design products that enable integrated circuit designers to achieve optimal performance from semiconductor process technologies. The Company offers software and services to electronic and semiconductor companies involved with the design of chips that are used in networking, communication, multimedia and computing products. For more information visit www.celestry.com or email info@celestry.com.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) is "Driving the Communications Revolution"(TM) with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48 and above), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand(TM) and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs), and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as USB and Bluetooth. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at www.cypress.com.

Notes to Editors

Acronyms and definitions:

CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (most common IC fab process)

DC: Direct Current (usually refers to low frequency)

IC: Integrated Circuit

MOSFET: Transistor

SOI: Silicon On Insulator (MOS style IC devices)

RF: Radio Frequency (usually refers to very high frequencies in the tens of giga-hertz and above)

Celestry, BSIMPro+, RFPro, NoisePro, Silicon Accurate Sign-off and the Celestry logo are trademarks of Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective owners.