Distributed:  May 8, 2001
About:  PRESS RELEASE REGARDING FORESIGHT SYSTEMS, INC.

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Foresight Systems v5.1 Released for Linux & Windows 2000
Expanded Platform Support and New Features Added to Foresight 
System Design and HW/SW Co-Design tools.

(Anaheim, CA and Austin, TX) March 2001 – Foresight Systems, 
Inc. today announced release v5.1 of their premier product 
including support for Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and 
Solaris.  The Foresight system design and HW/SW co-design 
tools automate the systems engineering process for systems 
designs ranging from System-on-a-Chip through the complete 
avionics system in modern aircraft. Delivery can be arranged 
through any Foresight sales office. 

In addition to broadened platform support, the v5.1 release 
adds important new capabilities to the Foresight product 
family.  Foresight can now generate design documentation 
directly to Microsoft Word's RTF (Rich Text Format).  
Customers have recently started requesting compatibility with 
Microsoft Word as more designers migrate to a PC platform.  
Foresight Systems, Inc. has for 5 years offered their FS/DOC 
product that generates design documentation to the Adobe 
FrameMaker format.  Both versions are now available.

Another new addition in v5.1 is support for hierarchical state 
machines.  The Foresight tool has long stood above its 
competition because of its ability to model and simulate a 
mixture of design paradigms in the same simulation.  For 
example, data flow, state machines, and control can all be 
modeled and simulated together.  The new v5.1 release builds 
on this capability by allowing designers to combine complex 
state machines with data flow and control.  

V5.1 also extends the Foresight Mini-spec language (one of 
several powerful ways to specify behavior) with VHDL syntax 
and operators.  Sensitivity lists, output scheduling 
operators, and other standard VHDL language characteristics 
improve the designer's modeling productivity by making the 
language more convenient and expressive.  As with previous 
versions of Foresight, there are a variety of ways provided to 
allow the inclusion of models developed in other languages 
such as VHDL, Verilog, C, and C++.

With today’s complex systems designs, a large number of people 
become involved early in the system design and specification 
process.  These product stakeholders have computers ranging 
from laptops to powerful UNIX workstations, and all of them 
need to collaborate and communicate using Foresight.  With 
release 5.1, Foresight is adding support for Linux and Windows 
2000 to their existing support for Windows NT and Solaris. 
These platforms can be mixed and matched as needed allowing 
everyone  to use Foresight from their desktop.


Paul Stoaks, Foresight’s VP of Engineering, stated, "We're 
very excited about the benefit that the v5.1 release will 
deliver to the system design community.   We have added new 
capabilities that improve the design and modeling experience 
while significantly improving reliability and performance.  
Adding support for the Linux platform provides our customers 
with a high performance, low cost workstation option.  With 
this and future releases, we intend to firmly establish 
Foresight as the system design environment of choice."

Foresight’s strategic partner, Motorola, received the first 
delivery of the new release.  Motorola’s investment last year 
in Foresight Systems assured them that they would have first 
access to Foresight’s cutting-edge design tools. 

About Foresight Systems, Inc.: Foresight Systems is the leader 
in providing solutions for complex system design automation. 
Foresight has demonstrated success in improving productivity 
and lowering costs for complex system development projects.  
Application areas include: space-based telecom system design, 
high-speed data acquisition system design, secure network 
design/validation, avionics signal processing, ATM switch 
design, hardware/software architecture design, automotive 
electronics design, and set-top box QAM processor ASIC design.  
Foresight has sales offices in California, Texas, Tennessee, 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania, along with distributors throughout 
Europe and the Pacific Rim. 

Foresight Systems, Inc. corporate offices are at 2300 E. 
Katella Ave., Suite 300, Anaheim, CA 92806 and 8217 Shoal 
Creek, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78757. Press contact for 
additional information about Foresight Systems is Deborah 
Wilson at 714-704-1670, or Chet A. Palesko at 512-420-9210.  
Web site address is http://www.foresight-systems.com.