Silicon Valley CEO to Address Japanese Audience
On Engineering Productivity

Santa Clara, California, March 1, 1999 : Vijay Raghavan, founder and CEO of Comit Systems, Inc., has been invited to speak on engineering productivity at the Techno-Business Forum 99 organized by the Japan External Trade Organization in Tokyo on March 3, 1999. Raghavan will address an audience of nearly 200 companies that includes Canon, Fujitsu, Toshiba, NEC, NTT, Mitsubishi and government organizations like MITI and The Bureau of International Trade.

Participation to the forum is by invitation only, and Comit is one of the 50 Companies from around the World to be invited to the Forum.

Accepting the invitation, Raghavan said, "As the world moves into the new millennium, electronics companies are facing the daunting challenge of creating innovative market-responsive supply-chains. We feel honored that we will have an opportunity to present our ideas on a key issue like this to one of the most knowledgeable of audiences."

Comit Systems, Inc. believes that engineering productivity can be improved by an order of magnitude by critically examining the current engineering processes and supply-chains.

Raghavan has also been invited to present Comit's model of enhancing engineering productivity at a seminar at the Electronic Design Solutions Exhibition, organized by the Components in Electronics magazine in conjunction with the NEPCON UK trade show in Birmingham, United Kingdom, during April 14-15, 1999.

About Comit Systems: Recognized as one of the 100 fastest growing, private companies in the Silicon Valley, Comit Systems provides design engineering services for FPGA/ASIC designs and, other shorter-time-to market solutions for board, system and product development, using the latest enabling technologies and tools. More information on Comit Systems may be found on the Internet at http:

About JETRO: The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) promotes trade and investment between overseas countries and Japan, and will hold its fifth Techno-Business Forum at the TEPIA Hi-Technology in Tokyo in March 1999. The goal of the forum is to serve as a catalyst for business alliances in Japan between high-tech overseas and Japanese companies. More information may be found from JETRO Tokyo, 2-5 Toranomon, 2-Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8466. JAPAN.