BOPS Joins Wind River's WindLink Partner Program; Integration of Wind River's BSP into Jordan Evaluation Board for VoIP Applications Yields Winning DSP IP and RTOS Combination.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001

BOPS, Inc., the leading provider of programmable broadband digital signal processing (DSP) cores, today announced that it has partnered with Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) joining the WindLink(TM) Partner Program and bringing together the winning combination of the most flexible, scalable DSP IP solutions with the industry-leading RTOS and embedded systems development tools. In conjunction with joining the WindLink Partner Program, BOPS has developed a Board Support Package (BSP) for Wind River's Tornado(R) integrated development environment (IDE) and VxWorks(R) real-time operating system (RTOS) into the BOPS' Jordan Evaluation Board used in developing system on chip (SOC) voice over IP (VoIP) applications.

Paul Duncan, vice president, tools and hardware, of BOPS noted, "In the final analysis, an SOC is the ultimate product realization of an embedded system, and you need all the critical elements, the intellectual property along with the RTOS, to develop that embedded system SOC. We believe that our ability to offer our evaluation board so that our mutual customers can evaluate BOPS DSP IP for VoIP in concert with Wind River's VxWorks RTOS is of major benefit in terms of development time and costs. When an entire targeted system can be evaluated readily and quickly, crucial, final product decisions can be made so that the overall product development cycle is shortened and product costs are reduced. In addition, by partnering with the leading provider of the industry's most-widely recognized RTOS, we leverage our ability to attract those customers already familiar with Wind River's tools and products."

"The Jordan Evaluation Board with a BSP for Wind River's VxWorks RTOS is the first of several collaborative efforts that BOPS will be implementing for VoIP applications with other leading suppliers of compatible technology," continued Duncan. "We have enjoyed working with Wind River in delivering this first solution and look forward to other mutually successful projects in the future."

"Wind River recognizes the importance of DSP and we are pleased to partner with BOPS to provide an integrated VoIP and SoC development solution," said Caroline Yao, group manager of partner solutions for Wind River. "By working with leading partners such as BOPS, Wind River can extend our extensive product portfolio which includes our recently acquired DSP technology to provide the most complete DSP development solution for embedded industry."

BOPS' Jordan Evaluation Board is a PCI card featuring the 100Mhz BOPS Manta DSP. It also contains up to a 266-MB-per second PCI bus, a 1-GB-per-second memory interface to 64Mbytes of SDRAM and a 400 MB per second interface to a QED RM5231TM MIPS(R) RISC controller. The Jordan BSP is fully compatible with WindRiver's Tornado development environment and consists of the configuration code for the QED 5231 MIPS processor, a VxWorks OS kernel, and a network interface driver for a Windows NT NIC card. Wind River Systems also supports a wide range of additional device drivers and recommends their use wherever possible. Development of new drivers, especially for SCSI and network devices, is similar in scale to the development of UNIX drivers. Full hardware, OS, and Application Software debugging environments are available for use with the BOPS' Jordan Development Board.

About the Wind River WindLink Partner Program

The WindLink Partner program is focused on helping hardware and software developers, system integrators and consultants create and sell products and services that complement or are integrated with Wind River products. Wind River continually seeks out partners in strategic market segments such as Internet infrastructure, telecommunications, Internet appliances, consumer electronics and semiconductors. WindLink partners work hand-in-hand with Wind River to provide total solutions to joint customers.

About Wind River

Wind River, www.windriver.com, is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think(TM). Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

About BOPS

Based in Mountain View, Calif., BOPS, Inc. develops and licenses a fully scalable, synthesizable DSP architecture that is programmable and reusable for evolving communications, mobile multimedia and wireless applications. BOPS' DSP architecture, cores, compilers, system tools and complete SOC designs offer total life-cycle solutions and rapid time-to-market. While providing the highest performance in the industry, BOPS cores are DSP co-processors to ARM, MIPS and other hosts and are supported by an extensive alliance of hardware, software, tools and design partners. For more information, please visit http://www.bops.com.

Note to Editors: BOPS is a registered trademark of BOPS, Inc. VoiceRay is a trademark of BOPS, Inc. Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks,Tornado, WindLink, and How Smart Things Think are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc.