EVE Names Joseph Rothman Senior Vice President of Business Development

Position Created to Manage Vendor Partner Relations, Major Accounts

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Sept. 7, 2006--EVE, provider of the fast, cost-effective hardware-assisted verification family known as ZeBu, today named Joseph Rothman to the newly created position of senior vice president of business development.

Rothman will be based in EVE's U.S. headquarters located in San Jose, Calif. He will be responsible for managing partnerships with embedded processor companies and relationships with EVE's major accounts.

"Joseph impressed all of us at EVE with his results-oriented attitude, high energy and vast experience as an entrepreneur, marketing and sales executive and engineer," says Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE-USA. "He's a welcome and valued addition to our team."

In 1992, Rothman founded and served as chief executive officer of CARDtools Systems, one of the first electronic system level (ESL) companies. Most recently, he held the position of senior vice president of US Business Operations at ProDesign. Earlier in his career, he worked at Ready Systems, Hewlett Packard and GE in product and marketing management positions.

He holds master of science and a bachelor of science degrees in engineering from Columbia University and a master of business administration degree from Santa Clara University.

About EVE

EVE offers the fastest verification and most cycles per dollar by combining the best aspects of traditional emulation and rapid prototyping systems into a single, unified environment for ASIC and SoC debugging, and embedded software validation. Its headquarters in the United States is San Jose, Calif. Telephone: (408) 881-0440. Fax: (408) 904-5800. Its corporate headquarters is located in Palaiseau, France. Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30. Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40. Website: http://www.eve-team.com.