CAST Extends Sales Reach with West Coast Office and New Distributor in Japan

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, June 20, 2006 — Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. today announced the opening of a CAST sales office in San Jose, California, and a distribution partnership with PROTOtyping Japan Corporation in Kobe and Tokyo, Japan.

The CAST San Jose office will be led by new West Coast Regional Sales Manager Steve Lilly. He brings thirty years of experience forming customer relationships and managing sales teams in the semiconductor test, manufacturing, and electronic design industries, and has worked for companies ranging from GenRad to various start-ups. Contact information is:

CAST, Inc., 1342 Lakeshore Circle, San Jose CA 95131
Phone: (408) 624-1209, Fax: (408) 904-7466, s.lilly@cast-inc.com

PROTOtyping Japan Corp. focuses on shortening customers’ time to market by selling and supporting hardware, software, and design integration services for FPGA–based prototyping, including advanced IP core solutions and peripheral technology and components. They are featuring CAST cores this week at the 9th Embedded Systems Expo and Conference (ESEC) in Tokyo. Their contact information is:

PROTOtyping Japan Corporation, 3F Fukken Kaikan Bldg., 5-1-21 Kitanagasa dori, Chuo-ku
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 650-0012 Phone: +81-78-382-8070, Fax: +81-78-382-8072
sales@prototyping-japan.com, http://www.prototyping-japan.com

About CAST, Inc.

CAST provides over 100 popular and standards-based IP cores for ASICs and FPGAs. The company is headquartered near New York City, partners with IP developers around the world, and works with select sales consultants and distributors throughout Europe and Asia. Learn more at http://www.cast-inc.com.