Adelante Technologies Licenses Mentor Graphics Embedded Technology to Offer Unique Multi-Core Software Solution.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Design Automation Conference 2002

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002

Mentor's XRAY Debugger Automatically Adapts to Any Adelante

Saturn DSP Core Configuration

Adelante Technologies, a leading developer of open, system-on-chip (SoC) digital signal processing solutions for the wireless, consumer infotainment and networking markets, announced today that it will offer a proprietary XRAY(R) Debugger suite from Mentor Graphics(R) for debugging multi-core Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) that include Adelante's high performance DSP cores, application-specific co-processors and third-party RISC processors. As a member of Mentor Graphics' ETAP Program, Adelante will enable its customers and partners to leverage Adelante's high performance DSP cores and co-processors with Mentor's embedded technology platform.

As part of its Atmosphere Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Adelante will license Mentor Graphics' XRAY Debugger technology to provide a best-in-class debug solution to customers developing complex multi-core SoC embedded solutions. The integration of XRAY into the Atmosphere IDE will provide engineers with both homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-core debugging capability and provide a common user interface for all Adelante DSP cores and application specific co-processors. This powerful solution will support all facets of the embedded software development lifecycle including instruction set simulation, co-verification and real target debug.

Highly optimized, fixed-point DSP designs frequently use multiple, non-standard word-widths (13-bits, 27-bits, etc.) to achieve floating-point performance in a small amount of silicon. While many debuggers limit the word-width to 16- or 32-bits, XRAY is designed specifically to handle any word-width and any combination of word-widths. Another key advantage for customers is XRAY's ability to enable embedded system developers to quickly build applications optimized around any Adelante DSP core for their SoC designs. Each design is automatically adapted to each unique Adelante core with XRAY's configurable interface from code development to debug. The extended support in XRAY for the DSP-C programming language is extremely important when designing and debugging highly optimized C-based solutions.

"This collaboration between Adelante and Mentor Graphics is key for developers in the high-volume consumer electronics industry -- particularly in the areas of infotainment and multimedia as well as next generation wireless devices. It enables systems designers to optimize their system level trade-offs and dramatically improve accuracy and time to market," said Karsten Popp, Adelante's CEO. "Multi-core debugging can be a major bottleneck in complex systems designs. Adelante's and Mentor's XRAY Debugger solution dramatically speeds-up the integration of Adelante's DSP solutions into customer solutions."

"This solution strongly reinforces Mentor's commitment to provide embedded software technology to a leader in the field of open embedded DSPs -- and to make it readily available and integrated into companies' architectures and environments," said Robert Day, director of marketing at Mentor's Embedded Software Division. "The XRAY Debugger is closely integrated with Adelante's DSP architecture, and completes the total solution for Adelante's customers."

Adelante and Mentor Graphics have also formed a partnership that enables Mentor Graphics to broaden the scope of its Platform Express(TM) SoC design kit to include SoC embedded digital signal processing (DSP). Platform Express offers an open development platform that enables multi-core SoC design and verification of hardware and software. This represents a major step forward in increasing the speed of development for SoC-based designs. Platform Express simultaneously generates a custom verification environment to verify interfaces in the portion of the design surrounding the embedded processor and its attached peripherals. By automating design creation and verification steps the solution shaves months off product development cycles and enables designers to focus on product differentiators.

About Adelante Technologies

Adelante Technologies is a leading developer of open, system-on chip (SoC) digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for the wireless, consumer infotainment and networking markets. Providing customers with the ultra-low power, low-cost and high-performance required in feature-rich devices of the multimedia age, Adelante solutions are based on a family of licensable, open DSP cores, sub-systems, application specific coprocessors, software development and tools. To date, more than 100 million products using Adelante technology have been shipped.

Adelante was founded in June 2001 from the merger of the DSP division of Philips Semiconductors and Frontier Design. In 2002 Adelante was listed in TIME Magazine's list of "Europe's 50 Hottest Tech Firms."

For more information please see Adelante's web site at: www.adelantetech.com.

Adelante, Galaxic, Saturn DSP Core, Atmosphere are trademarks of Adelante Technologies. Mentor Graphics, and XRAY are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. Platform express is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.