Aware Announces StratiPHY2+ Chip; StratiPHY2+ is the Industry's First Complete and Fully ITU Standard-Compliant ADSL2+ CPE Intellectual Property Offering.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2003 BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003 Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AWRE AWRE Atomic Weapons Research Establishment AWRE Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering AWRE Automatic Write Reallocation Enable ), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual property, today announced the immediate availability of its StratiPHY2+(TM) chip. The StratiPHY2+ is a complete physical instantiation (programming) instantiation - Producing a more defined version of some object by replacing variables with values (or other variables). 1. In object-oriented programming, producing a particular object from its class template. of Aware's standard-compliant ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line , ADSL2, and ADSL2+ core IP in the form of a single digital chip. StratiPHY2+ delivers downstream data rates of up to 24 Mbps, and interoperates with ADSL and ADSL2 equipment. As an essential wide area network (WAN) interface for broadband silicon providers, StratiPHY2+ is the second offering in a line of completely functional, manufacturable silicon IP offerings from Aware. "With the addition of StratiPHY2+, Aware's semiconductor customers have access to a working ADSL2+ silicon platform along with a complete turnkey package of RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; and firmware," said Luke Smithwick, Aware's vice president of business development. "This powerful combination of a complete IP platform and a physical chip reduces development costs and time-to-market. StratiPHY2+ can also be used in a packaged chip or bare die See bare chip. form for very rapid market entry strategies." Aware's new StratiPHY2+ offering allows silicon providers to combine Aware's ADSL IP with the strength and diversity of their existing silicon product offerings to dramatically expand their market and revenue opportunities as well as create entirely new market opportunities that traditional ADSL chipset providers cannot address. In addition to expanding the market opportunities for existing offerings, StratiPHY2+ provides complete independence from potentially competitive third party ADSL silicon providers, because of its availability from an independent source of intellectual property and its ease of integration into a variety of silicon products. StratiPHY2+ has a robust feature set that implements all required and optional ADSL2+ requirements, as well as legacy ADSL standards, to address the rapidly growing worldwide ADSL market. Aware has also developed an end-to-end connectivity demonstration for ADSL2+ using StratiPHY2+ and a real-time central office (CO) development platform. Aware's test environment provides a platform to demonstrate the value of ADSL2+ features, as well as providing positive assurance to customers of the high quality of Aware's ADSL2+ intellectual property. The StratiPHY2+ chip is implemented in 0.18 micron CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology and was fabricated at TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code . A demonstration of StratiPHY2+ will take place in Aware's booth (#22261) at SuperComm 2003, which takes place in Atlanta, GA June 2 - 4, 2003. For more information on StratiPHY2+ or any of Aware's products, please visit Aware's booth at SuperComm, or Aware's website at: http://www.aware.com. About ADSL2+ ADSL2+ (also known as G.992.5) is the new standard consented by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. in January 2003. It is based on ADSL2 (G.992.3) and doubles the maximum frequency used for downstream data transmission from 1.1 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. to 2.2 MHz. As a result, downstream data rates are increased to up to 24 Mbps on phone lines as long as 3,000 feet, and 20 Mbps on lines as long as 5,000 feet. About Aware Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary technology that enables broadband communications over existing telephone networks. Its solutions, including splitterless G.lite, full-rate ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, VeDSL(TM), Dr. DSL(R), StratiPHY(TM), StratiPHY2+(TM), FastADSL(TM), BondedADSL(TM), and G.shdsl address central office as well as customer premise requirements. More information about Aware can be found at http://www.aware.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Warning Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL market. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, we depend on a limited number of licensees, we derive a significant amount of revenue from one customer, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, and our business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Factors That May Effect Future Results in our annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2002 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. VeDSL, Dr. DSL, XRDSL, StratiPHY, StratiPHY2+, FastADSL, and BondedADSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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