PORTLAND, OR, March 6, 2006 -- First Silicon Solutions, (FS2), a division of MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) and a leader in on-chip instrumentation IP for high performance debug solutions, has announced plans for support and interoperability with the new Siloti™ SilVE™ Visibility Enhancement (VE) product. Siloti, which addresses emulation, prototyping and silicon debug applications, was introduced separately today by Novas Software, Inc.

"Debug continues to be an increasingly important aspect in the verification flow, both at the prototyping and silicon production level. Tightly integrating debug tools and on-chip instrumentation with EDA capabilities and flows is critical for today’s increasingly complex designs," said Rick Leatherman, Vice President and General Manager of FS2 at MIPS Technologies.  "We are pleased to cooperate with Novas in creating this vital connection between hardware instrumentation and software-based tools.”

FS2 and Novas will enable interoperability between FS2 Logic Navigator™ and Bus Navigator™ products and the Novas Siloti SilVE product. The integration between FS2 and Novas allows users to identify essential debug signals and conditions for capture using Navigator on-chip instrumentation flow. On-chip signal information captured using the FS2 Navigator products can be viewed at a register level by the Novas Verdi™ Automated Debug System. The SilVE product is automatically invoked within the Verdi environment so that users can expand ‘on-demand’ signal values and view results at the register transfer level (RTL).

Logic Navigator and Bus Navigator on-chip instrumentation solutions allow high performance triggering and tracing of embedded IP blocks and on-chip buses (AMBA, OCP, etc.) respectively. Both products are supported by FS2’s high performance System Navigator™ probing technology and work in conjunction with FS2’s embedded processor debug blocks to provide comprehensive on-chip instrumentation and debug solutions.

"Customers need full visibility of internal signals to understand complex chip functional behavior," said George Bakewell, Director of Product Marketing at Novas Software. “Obtaining this level of visibility requires on-chip instrumentation as well as data expansion and correlation to leverage the acquired signal data.  Linking the FS2 Navigator technology and our SilVE product will enable users to achieve full design visibility.”

About FS2

First Silicon Solutions (FS2) specializes in hardware verification and debug technologies including on-chip instrumentation custom silicon IP, development tools, and design services for programming, testing and debug of embedded systems in FPGA, SoC, SOPC, ASSP and ASIC designs. FS2 provides full system solutions with IP blocks for processor, logic, and complex system level designs, along with hardware and software tools for improved debug and analysis at all stages in the development cycle - from system design and verification to software development and optimization. FS2 products enable silicon vendors and their customers to take their designs from "first silicon" to production faster, with a better understanding of the design performance and overall operation - for faster time-to-market and higher quality products.  FS2 was acquired in September 2005 by, and is a division of, MIPS Technologies, Inc. Additional information about First Silicon Solutions is available at www.fs2.com.

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Siloti, SilVE and Verdi are trademarks of Novas Software, Inc. FS2, First Silicon Solutions, Bus Navigator, Logic Navigator, and System Navigator are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries.