SAN JOSE, Calif.—April 20, 2009—Virtutech®, Inc., the leader in virtualized system development (VSD), today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has signed a three-year corporate license for the Simics® simulation platform. At the same time, the Freescale Network Systems Division (NSD) has designated Virtutech as its “preferred simulation partner” for the QorIQ™ line of processors.

“Because multicore[] processors and their applications are so sophisticated, they require an entirely new approach to design , eco-system enablement and go-to-market strategies,” said Lisa T. Su Senior Vice President and General Manager, Freescale Network Systems Division. “The Virtutech Simics virtualized system development platform has been a change agent for both Freescale and its ecosystem partners enabling a successful launch of the Freescale QorIQ P4080 SOC. We are pleased to broaden our relationship with Virtutech to support more Freescale SOCs down the road”

The Freescale agreement extends the Simics license usage across the Freescale enterprise, worldwide, from field organization to development and support. The Simics licenses include the core Hindsight platform, TLM based Model Builder, Networking Interface, unique multithreading capabilities, Accelerator and the Simics Model Libraries, which contain thousands of TLM devices, hundreds of SOCs and cores, especially Power Architecture® processors.

Freescale initially licensed Virtutech Simics as the simulation platform for the Freescale 8572 SOC. Last year, Freescale NSD extended Simics usage to support its new QorIQ™ P4080 multicore processor. In June at the Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale and its development community were able to announce that they had successfully leveraged the Virtutech Simics platform to develop software solutions for the new Freescale QorIQ P4080 multi-core processor well ahead of silicon availability. Looking forward, Freescale expects to contribute additional QorIQ models to the Simics library.

“The fact that Freescale NSD is making Virtutech Simics its preferred simulation platform is a wonderful acknowledgement of the impact Simics is having on both development and business processes for the Freescale NSG business said John Lambert, CEO of Virtutech, Inc. “ Freescale’s success with Virtutech Simics is another validation in a continual stream of successful Simics use cases. Whether it’s the increasingly complex needs of the mulitcore industry or the unique challenges of the networking, data communications, aerospace and defense industries, Simics has the flexibility, power and scalability to support our customers’ businesses.”

About Simics

Simics is a high performance full-system simulator that enables engineers to develop, debug, test and run their entire software application stack on a virtual representation of their target hardware named virtual platform. The overall engineering development efforts are reduced through advanced capabilities normally not available with physical hardware: non-invasive debugging and tracing, saving and later resuming execution, full deterministic behavior, built-in networking capabilities, forward and reverse execution, ability to examine, control, and break on any internal device and to inject faults, and the ability to save system state and later replay it. Simics runs unmodified production-quality binaries and can be used with third party software development tools.

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com.

About Virtutech

Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in product development process improvement through virtualized system development (VSD). Virtutech Simics® allows for a revolutionary change in the product development process at a full system level rather than a component level and is the only commercial solution that delivers the four most important criteria for successful deployment of hardware virtualization[] in the electronics equipment development process: speed, scalability, model availability, and control. Simics customers report reduced time to market, better project risk management, lower capital expenditure, product development cost and maintenance as well as increased quality and individual productivity. Virtutech serves the needs of the world’s leading OEMs in the high-performance computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, networking and semiconductor industries. Customers include Cisco, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, GE Avionics, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nortel, Northrop Grumman, MontaVista Software and Wind River. Virtutech is an active participant in organizations to drive adoption of VSD such as ARM Connected Community, Eclipse.org, IBM PartnerWorld, Multicore Association, Power.org, OSCI and Spirit Consortium. Virtutech is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit www.virtutech.com.