Subject: Bluespec Required to Accept People with Pre-Existing Conditions

From: George Harper <gharper=user domain=bluespec not mom>
To: John Cooley <jcooley=user domain=zeroskew not mom>

Dear John,

Please note that this press release is strictly embargoed until 12:01 AM on
4/1/2010.  After the passage of the U.S. Health Care Bill, there were some
material impacts to Bluespec's business that we felt compelled to disclose.

The text for the press release, which follows below, outlines these issues.

Best regards,

    - George Harper
      VP of Marketing
      Bluespec, Inc.                             Waltham, MA

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Bluespec Required to Accept People with Pre-Existing Conditions

U.S. Health Care Bill Passage Forces Bluespec's Hands

Waltham, MA -- April 1, 2010 -- Bluespec, Inc. today announced that it can
no longer designate as exclusions people having pre-existing conditions and
deny them treatment.  The Health Care Bill recently signed into legislation
by Congress requires that Bluespec support all engineers, regardless of
previous experiences and their associated afflictions, even if caused by
their own unfortunate lifestyle choices.

Whether suffering from toxic exposure to the notion of using sequential
languages for hardware design, agonizing under an irrational obsession with
paralyzing control-data flow graphs, or enduring delusional expectations
that C/C++-based hardware design will ever work sufficiently well for
anything more than loop-and-array block-level applications, engineers can
no longer be denied relief at Bluespec.

Despite its apprehension about the prospects of dealing with all of the
emotional and physiological damage, Bluespec is heartened by many C user
testimonials:

  "This Forte virus has been killing us.  We caught this bug early on,
   but we now realize it has many of the same issues and problems as
   Verilogorrhea, just in fancier clothes.  Bluespec fixed this."

  "When I looked up the symptoms for Sea-to-Silicosis -- a lack of
   predictability and a long tail trying to converge to spec -- I knew
   we had it.  Bluespec is the medicine the doctor ordered."

  "I can't wait to rid myself of these Picobes.  I'd lost all visibility,
   making it hard to get my job done.  Although I'd assumed that a common
   language would have made this easy, I'm now dependent on an expert to
   make headway and I'm still not getting it done.  I can't wait for
   Bluespec so that I can do things much faster and by myself."

  "I contracted Trebuchet Foot in that deal with Monitor Artworks, Inc.
   Simple things like pulling everything together and getting to the
   market took forever.  I'm so happy to finally get the Bluespec
   treatment -- it will make a huge difference."

Bluespec is instituting an immediate rehab program to those who were in
danger of being lost at C.  The CDC in Atlanta, which recommends against
using C for HW design, has applauded this move as timely and courageous.


For more details contact George Harper, Bluespec's VP of marketing.  He can
be reached at (781) 250-2200 or at info@bluespec.com.


About Bluespec

Bluespec provides the only general-purpose, high-level synthesis toolset
for any use model (models, testbenches, or production IP) and design type
(datapath, control, or interconnect).  Models and testbenches can be
synthesized along with legacy IP to leverage emulation much earlier in
the development cycle.  Users get better chips to market sooner by
developing software in parallel and validating architectures well before
tapeout.  Bluespec is the only synthesis tool built on atomic transactions,
proven technology for managing and simplifying large-scale HW concurrency. 
More info can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling (781) 250-2200.

Bluespec is a registered trademark of Bluespec, Inc.  All other brands,
products, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of the
companies with which they are associated.

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