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FREMONT, CA -- Avant! Corporation (Nasdaq: AVNT) today announced that Avant!'s Star family of circuit simulation tools has been ranked a commanding first in the IC Spice simulation market for new sales in 2000 by Dataquest. According to the November 2001, Gartner Dataquest report titled "EDA 2001: It's Good to Be an EDA Vendor," combined market share of Star-Hspice and Star-SimXT is more than triple that of any competing vendor. In use at all the top 20 semiconductor companies, Star-Hspice and Star-SimXT are leading edge, circuit simulation tools for IC design analysis, design verification and manufacturing. "Circuit simulation is one of Avant!'s core competencies, and we are proud to be named first again by Dataquest," said Dr. Paul Lo, president of Avant! Corporation. "Our R&D investment in this area has resulted in leading capability and strong customer acceptance. Going forward, we continue to invest heavily to deliver leading-edge technologies such as Star-SimXT and Star-Hspice for the challenges of system-on-chip design." Star-Hspice is the golden, sign-off circuit simulator used and endorsed at major foundries worldwide. Ubiquitous in the design community, Star-Hspice is regularly used by designers of all types of circuits including analog, mixed-signal, custom, digital, and libraries. Star-SimXT is the only True-Hspice(TM), full-chip circuit simulator available today. Star-SimXT directly accesses the same foundry-endorsed models used within Star-Hspice -- hence True-Hspice -- thereby giving 0% modeling error compared with the industry sign-off tool. Used in the design and verification of the largest system-on-chip designs, Star-SimXT provides accurate timing, power and noise simulation. Star-SimXT quickly and accurately simulates ICs of all types including microprocessor, memory, high-speed digital and mixed-signal chips. For more information visit www.avanticorp.com