APTIX RECEIVES $1 MILLION PURCHASE ORDER FROM QUALCOMM INCORPORATED; Telecommunications Company Selects Aptix's Emulation Solution.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1995--Design Automation Conference--Aptix Corporation, a leading supplier of emulation solutions for system prototyping, today announced it is receiving a purchase order from QUALCOMM Incorporated for $250,000 with options to purchase up to $1 million worth of Aptix products over the next 12 months. Under terms of the agreement, QUALCOMM has agreed to adopt Aptix's System Explorer products to prototype product developments in connection with the Globalstar System, a low-Earth orbit satellite-based digital communications system developed by a partnership consisting of QUALCOMM, Loral Corporation, and a number of other telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers.

For the Globalstar System, QUALCOMM is developing the ground segment which consists of the Ground Operation Control Center, Gateways, and mobile and fixed cellular-like phones using QUALCOMM's Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology. QUALCOMM will marry Aptix's System Explorer product with its RF components to emulate, in real time, how a transmitted signal will be affected by harsh conditions (i.e., bad weather, congested traffic, dense city populations), and will work its Globalstar product offerings. QUALCOMM will use Aptix's products for both development efforts and field-deployment testing.

"We selected Aptix's System Explorer as our system-prototyping solution because this product allows us to integrate the latest FPGA offerings, such as AT&T's ORCA chips, with Aptix's reprogrammable interconnect technology, before committing this to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)," stated Houtan Dehesh, vice president of engineering at QUALCOMM. "In addition, Aptix's emulation products will enable us to exercise design prototypes at full-operating system speeds, providing for subjective testing under all conditions."

Amr Mohsen, president and CEO of Aptix, added, "We are pleased to have been chosen by QUALCOMM to support its progressive work for the Globalstar System. We look forward to taking a role in QUALCOMM's development of next-generation telecommunications products. We believe our products offer exceptional rapid prototyping capabilities, especially for designs in wireless telecommunications where emulation speed is so critical when interfacing with real- world constraints, such as testing for sound clarity."

The System Explorer product line utilizes a reprogrammable architecture to dramatically increase the productivity and effectiveness of hardware/software codesign by integrating top-down design methodologies into a system-emulation environment. With System Explorer products, designs that are first created in VHDL, or captured and simulated by an ESDA tool, can be incorporated seamlessly into the rapid prototyping stage. For the Globalstar System, QUALCOMM will be using Synopsys' FPGA compiler to generate the supporting code of the AT&T ORCA FPGAs to be used on System Explorer.

Aptix Corporation is the only company to provide a rapid prototyping environment for emulating complete systems that contain microprocessors, DSPs, memories and ASIC devices coupled to real-time I/O interfaces. The company's Explorer product line, based on its proprietary system-emulation technology, provides a flexible open architecture that enables design engineers to easily evaluate hardware alternatives while supporting the development of firmware and software. The company is located at 2890 North First Street, San Jose, California, USA 95134. Telephone [phone]. -0-

Note to Editors: System Explorer is a trademark of Aptix Corporation. Globalstar is a trademark of Globalstar, L.P.

CONTACT: Aptix Corporation

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QUALCOMM Incorporated

Keriann Hartman, 619/658-2768