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3 October 2005

Product News

Agilent Technologies Announces Plans for Recently Acquired Eagleware-Elanix EDA Product Line

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced several plans for its product lines following its recent acquisition of the business of Eagleware-Elanix, a provider of system and circuit design software for the communications industry. Expected changes include price decreases, a new customer investment protection program, Advanced Design System (ADS) translators, and a trade-in offer to users of non-Agilent software.

The price decrease is for non-U.S. Eagleware-Elanix customers only and is made possible through the efficiency gains Agilent expects to make in its global infrastructure.

"Our international operations are highly efficient, and we are passing these savings directly to our customers," said Jim McGillivary, vice president and general manager of Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "This signals our intention to keep the Eagleware-Elanix product line in a leading price-performance position for years to come."

Prices in the United States will remain unchanged.

Second, Agilent has announced a new investment protection program, the first of its kind in the high-frequency EDA market. It allows new and current Eagleware-Elanix customers to apply 100 percent of the current list price of the software toward other products in the Agilent EEsof EDA portfolio.

"We realize that companies benefit from options, and we intend to make their decision to choose Agilent EEsof EDA even easier by preserving their investment," said Neil Martin, marketing and services manager for Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "Customers new to Agilent can start small and chart a financial growth path as their needs evolve. We simply could not do this before with a single product line."

Third, an existing translator from GENESYS to the ADS electronic design automation software platform is being upgraded now for enhanced migration options.

And last, Agilent is extending an open offer for users of non-Agilent solutions to trade in their software and migrate to the Eagleware-Elanix product line.

"We are confident that the newly acquired Eagleware-Elanix product line provides a better value than alternative, easy-to-use, PC-based, RF EDA solutions in this portion of the market," said Martin. "GENESYS 2005 is a significant release, and we encourage customers to compare the overall price-performance, maintenance fees, long-term roadmaps, and investment protection options."

The most recent version of Eagleware GENESYS, GENESYS 2005, combines ease-of-use enhancements with new synthesis and simulation capabilities. This release is in the beta-testing phase and is expected to ship in the fourth quarter of calendar 2005.

The Eagleware-Elanix product line, with thousands of customers worldwide, is focused on providing easy-to-use, PC-based, high-frequency EDA software at a leading price-performance point. Key products include:

•  GENESYS-An integrated, affordable and easy-to-use suite supporting a full range of design, from algorithms to artwork.

•  More than 10 RF and microwave component synthesis tools, including filter, matching, oscillator, amplifier, phase locked loop and mixer design.

•  SystemVue-A system design environment with an intuitive block-level interface for development, simulation and analysis.

•  Unique system architecture design and analysis capabilities built around the spectral domain simulation capabilities in SPECTRASYS.

To contact Agilent EEsof EDA with questions about these plans, visit http://www.agilent.com/find/eesof-email . More information about Agilent's EDA tools, including Eagleware-Elanix, is available at http://www.agilent.com/find/eesof .

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