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Virage Logic to Focus on Yield, Manufacturability, and IP Quality at FSA Suppliers Expo and Technical Conference

 Virage Logic to Highlight Broad Portfolio of Semiconductor IP Solutions That
    Address Complex SOC Design Requirements to Accelerate Silicon Success

    FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Virage Logic Corp.
(Nasdaq: VIRL), a leading provider of semiconductor IP platforms, today
announced its participation at the 2004 FSA Suppliers Expo being held on
October 6, 2004, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, and the FSA
Semiconductor IP Workshop being held on October 7, 2004 at David's Restaurant
in Santa Clara. Virage Logic will be delivering a keynote address and several
technical papers on yield and manufacturability issues.
    Dr. Yervant Zorian, vice president and chief scientist of Virage Logic,
will deliver the workshop's luncheon keynote address entitled "Leveraging IP
Design for Optimum Manufacturability." Virage Logic's vice president of
marketing, Jim Ensell, will chair the workshop's business track and
participate in the "Design Chain Views on IP Quality and Interoperability: Is
IP Quality Achievable, Measurable and Ultimately Enforceable?" panel.
Technical presentations being given by Virage Logic will include,
"Manufacturing for Optimal Yield with Embedded Infrastructure IP," presented
by Dr. R. Chandramouli, marketing director, and "How to Ensure High Yielding,
Highly Manufacturable and Highly Reliable IP," presented by Dr. Alex Shubat,
vice president of R&D and chief technical officer.
    Virage Logic will also be showcasing its broad portfolio of highly
differentiated IP in booth #421/423.  Conference attendees will be able to
meet with Virage Logic's IP experts to learn more about how the company's
silicon-proven semiconductor IP platforms can help them meet their
System-on-Chip (SoC) design cost, performance and reliability requirements.

    About the FSA Suppliers Expo and Technical Conference
    The FSA Suppliers Expo and Technical Conference will feature over 100
exhibitors showcasing their latest products and services, and business
educational sessions presenting a forum for advancing and cultivating business
partnerships with key decision makers from the semiconductor industry.
Exhibitors will represent a variety of suppliers to the fabless segment,
including design management systems and design software. For additional
information on the FSA Suppliers Expo and Technical Conference, or to
register, please visit http://www.fsa.org/suppliers_expo .

    About Virage Logic Corporation
    Founded in 1996, Virage Logic Corporation quickly established itself as a
technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded memory
intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits.
Virage Logic has evolved to become a global leader in semiconductor IP
platforms comprising embedded memory, standard cells, and I/Os primarily for
the consumer, communications and networking, handheld and portable, and
computer and graphics markets. Virage Logic's highly differentiated product
portfolio provides foundries, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), and
fabless customers with key competitive advantages including higher
performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield. The company's
comprehensive quality efforts are validated in its FirstPass-Silicon
Characterization lab, which ensures high quality, reliable IP across a wide
range of foundries and process technologies. Headquartered in Fremont,
California, Virage Logic has R&D, sales and support offices worldwide. For
more information, visit http://www.viragelogic.com.

    SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT FOR VIRAGE LOGIC UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES
LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995:
    Statements made in this news release, other than statements of historical
fact, are forward-looking statements, including, for example, statements
relating to trends, business outlook, products, and customer relationships.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks
and uncertainties, which might cause actual results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such statements.  These risks and uncertainties
include Virage Logic's ability to forecast its business, including its
revenue, income and order flow outlook; Virage Logic's ability to execute on
its strategy to become a provider of semiconductor IP platforms; Virage
Logic's ability to continue to develop new products and maintain and develop
new relationships with third-party foundries and integrated device
manufacturers; adoption of Virage Logic's technologies by semiconductor
companies and increases or fluctuations in the demand for their products; the
company's ability to overcome the challenges associated with establishing
licensing relationships with semiconductor companies; the company's ability to
obtain royalty revenues from customers in addition to license fees, to receive
accurate information necessary for calculating royalty revenues and to collect
royalty revenues from customers; business and economic conditions generally
and in the semiconductor industry in particular; competition in the market for
semiconductor IP platforms; and other risks including those described in the
company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended September 30, 2003,
and in Virage Logic's other periodic reports filed with the SEC, all of which
are available from Virage Logic's website (http://www.viragelogic.com) or from the
SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov), and in news releases and other communications.
Virage Logic disclaims any intention or duty to update any forward-looking
statements made in this news release.

    NOTE:  All trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective
owners and are protected therein.


SOURCE Virage Logic Corp.




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    CONTACT:
    Sabina Burns of Virage Logic Corporation,
    +1-510-743-8115, or sabina.burns@viragelogic.com; or Kerry
    McClenahan of McClenahan Bruer Communications, +1-503-546-1002,
    or kerry@mcbru.com, for Virage Logic Corp.