SUNNYVALE, California, June 6, 2005 -- VaST Systems Technology Corporation, the embedded system design automation company, today announced that Erin Marshall has been named as sales director of US Central Region and John Faase has been named as director of US Sales-West. These latest hires result from the $12M funding that VaST announced on May 23, 2005 ( http://www.vastsystems.com/pr_11.html) Funds are being used primarily to increase management, sales and technical resources. "Erin Marshall's experience as vice president of sales for Barcelona Design, Inc., and her experience in both sales and operations for Cadence Design Systems and as enterprise business director for Texas Instruments make her exceptionally well qualified to head the VaST central region sales effort " said VaST CEO Alain Labat.

"John's background as a highly successful business development and account manager for Synopsys, design manager for Intel , and regional sales manager for Nassda Corporation and Synplicity make him similarly well qualified to lead our western US sales effort," continued Labat. "I am personally delighted to add the extraordinary talents of John and Erin to the VaST team. Both will enable VaST to provide an even higher level of support to our customers."

About VaST
VaST Systems Technology Corporation provides tools and models for embedded system design automation. VaST's solutions enable architectural exploration and optimization, allowing users to create a virtual system prototype in software that becomes the golden reference model for the true concurrent development of hardware and software. VaST's solutions deliver both high speed and cycle accuracy under actual real-time software loads. VaST's products dramatically improve time to market and quality, and reduce development costs and risk.

Current customers include worldwide leaders in semiconductors, automotive electronics, wireless devices, and consumer electronics. VaST is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.vastsystems.com.

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