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UCI Extension Selects ICtips.com for Its First Online Engineering Courses; Cites Web Access as Key Advantage for Its Distance Learning Program

Business Wire - October 19, 1999

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999--

UCI Extension (Irvine, CA) and ByteK Designs, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA), a design services and training company in the EDA and semiconductor industry, today announced their agreement to offer a series of online engineering courses.

These courses are part of UCI Extension's distance learning program through ByteK's knowledge-based web-site www.ictips.com.

UCI Extension's online distance learning courses are of benefit to engineers because they offer an alternative to on-campus classes. Participants can work at their own pace wherever and whenever they wish. The courses are hosted at the ICtips.com web-site to avoid the hassle of installing and maintaining the class.

Taher Abbasi, Vice-President of Products and Technology at ByteK Designs, said, "We are happy to work with forward-thinking educational institutions like UCI Extension to improve the engineering community's knowledge base with 24 by 7 online electronic design courses." ByteK's Design for Test (DFT) and ASIC Synthesis courses are the first online engineering technology classes to be offered by UCI Extension as part of its distance learning program.

Mario Vidalon, Director of UCI Extension Engineering, Information and Science Technologies notes, "We are working with ICtips.com, the leading web-site for Web-based knowledge solutions for the engineering community, to make these courses available to engineers all over the world. While online education may not replace traditional classroom education, it will enhance it in a number of ways by giving people more options and access -- and that is our goal with these online courses."

ByteK and UCI Extension at the Online Learning Conference

At booth No. 560 this week at the Online Learning Conference in Los Angeles, demonstrations of the Web-based classes are available. Course developers and instructors will be available to answer questions. For information about the Conference visit www.onlinelearning99.com.

About the Web-based Engineering Courses

ASIC Testing Using Scan and Boundary Scan Techniques This Web-based course covers Scan and boundary scan DFT techniques.

ASIC Synthesis Using Synopsys

This Web-based training course covers all aspects of logic synthesis flow based on the Synopsys Design Compiler.

Both courses are currently open for enrollment. Visit www.unex.uci.edu for more information or to register.

About UCI Extension

UCI Extension utilizes the resources of the University of California, Irvine to provide continuing education to over 30,000 students each year. UCI Extension operates as an independent nonprofit division of the University of California, Irvine without state funds. With more than 2,000 professional and personal enrichment courses, 40 certificate programs and specialized studies offered annually, UCI Extension is a major source for continuing education in Orange County. To request a UCI Extension catalog, call 949/824-5414 or visit www.unex.uci.edu

About ByteK

The founders of ByteK Designs are from leading EDA software companies and semiconductor design houses. They have published two books: It's the Methodology, Stupid! and Logic Synthesis Using Synopsys. They have been in the classroom training business for the over two years, have done training work and course development for Avant!, Cadence, Synopsys, Viewlogic, and Chrysalis and have taught design classes for the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) Extension, UC Irvine and Cal State University, Northridge. Earlier this year ByteK launched www.ICtips.com, one of the electronic design industry's first knowledge-based Web site.

Contact ByteK Designs, Inc. at 953 Industrial Ave., Suite 108, Palo Alto, CA 94303 650/813-1230, FAX 650/813-1428 or visit www.bytekinc.com.

Note to Editors: UCI Extension and ByteK acknowledge trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

Acronyms:

ASIC: Application Specific IC DFT: Design-for-Test EDA: Electronic Design Automation IC: Integrated Circuit

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