Sophia Systems Provides JTAG Emulators and mITRON OS support for Tensilica's Diamond Standard Processors

Kanagawa and Yokohama, JAPAN - February 20, 2006 - Sophia Systems (CEO: Tasuku Kashihira, JASDAQ: 6942) and Tensilica today announced that Sophia Systems' JTAG emulators and TOPPERS (Toyohashi Open Platform for Embedded Real-time systems) mITRON (ver 4.0) specification-compliant RTOS (real-time operating system) are available for Tensilica's new Diamond Standard processors.

"We are very pleased to provide support for Tensilica's new Diamond Standard processors," stated Tasuku Kashihira, President, Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. "We have worked with Tensilica's customers and support Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors."

"Our Xtensa customers have enjoyed working with Sophia Systems for debugging and operating system support," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing. "We are happy that these products from Sophia Systems will now be available to our Diamond Standard processor customers."

"We are very pleased to hear that Sophia Systems and Tensilica will provide mITRON-compliant RTOS developed by TOPPERS for Tensilica's Diamond Standard processors," stated Hiroaki Takada, Chairman of TOPPERS Project and Professor of Nagoya University. "We will continue our effort to develop and provide useful open-source software for promoting the development of embedded systems."

Sophia Systems' compact, USB-powered EJ-Debug™ JTAG emulator is a development tool for ASICs containing Diamond Standard processors and the on-chip debug interface for debugging. EJ-Debug works with Sophia Systems' easy-to-use Watchpoint software.

TOPPERS is a project aimed at developing various open-source software for embedded systems, including RTOS compliant to mITRON specification.
The project is undertaken by a non-profit organization that is led by Professor Hiroaki Takada of Nagoya University and enrolls about 100 organizations of industry, academia, and public sector and about 90 individual engineers. A key objective of the TOPPERS project is to develop many embedded software programs based on the ITRON specification. ITRON is very popular for use in a wide range of embedded systems from Internet access devices to games.

About Sophia Systems Co., Ltd.
Sophia Systems is celebrating 30 years as a leader in the embedded systems industry and offers comprehensive development solutions supporting various 32/64-bit microprocessors. Sophia Systems is headquartered just outside of Tokyo Japan with sales offices and/or distributors throughout Japan, North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

We work closely with other technology leaders to provide the best embedded development solutions and continually provide powerful and reliable real-time microprocessor emulation systems enabling thousands of hardware and software engineers to complete their development projects on time and within budget.

About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific microprocessor and DSP solutions in high-volume embedded applications. Using a patented configurable and extensible processor generation technology, Tensilica is the only company that offers a wide range of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors in both off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard series cores, and with full designer-configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Every Tensilica processor core comes complete with a companion software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. . For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com.

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