Leuven, Belgium, September 23, 2009 – Mephisto Design Automation (MDA), a leading EDA tool innovator in the space of analog, mixed-signal and custom-digital design, announced that it has joined the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC).

EDAC's mission is "To promote the health of the EDA industry, and to increase awareness of the crucial role EDA plays in today's global economy."

Being increasingly recognized as an innovative tool provider in the analog and mixed-signal design space, MDA wants to contribute to the success of the industry and increase the awareness of its highly productive design and verification platform M-Design™.

About MDA
Mephisto Design Automation (MDA) delivers unique analog, mixed-signal and custom-digital design automation solutions based on its flagship platform M-Design™. A highly flexible platform, M-Design allows both novice and expert designers to significantly improve circuit performance, productivity and circuit understanding. Including capabilities such as advanced testbench composition and flow control, embedded scripting, an extensive toolbox and patent-pending multi-level optimization, M-Design is the tool of choice for the simulation, sizing, optimization, verification and migration of analog, mixed-signal and custom digital designs and IP. More information is available at www.mephisto-da.com.

About EDAC
The EDA Consortium represents approximately 100 companies in the $5.5 billion Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry. The EDA industry serves virtually every major semiconductor and electronics systems company in the world including computer, communications, consumer electronics, medical, and aerospace companies. The worldwide demand for increasingly complex electronic products is exploding. The EDA industry's products and services make it possible for the world's electronic companies to keep up with demand for smaller, faster, more powerful, and lower cost electronic products.


For further information please contact:
Kenneth Francken, CEO MDA
+32 16 40 36 32, info@mephisto-da.com