BOPS Makes Its VoiceRay DSP Core Available Through VCX.

Business Editors and High Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001

BOPS, Inc., a leading provider of programmable broadband digital signal processing (DSP) cores, today announced that it has registered its VoiceRay(TM) CGW core on the Virtual Component Exchange (VCX) TradeFloor.

"Our high-end VoiceRay CGW is the first of many cores that BOPS intends to register with VCX," said Ken Pope, director, product marketing, BOPS, Inc. "VCX streamlines the procurement process for semiconductor intellectual property through web-based tools. We see this as a good way to reach potential customers."

Andy Travers, CEO of the VCX replied, "Clearly the industry's enthusiasm and support for the VCX concept demonstrates a pent-up demand for a more streamlined and efficient method of transacting IP. We are pleased at the growing participation from BOPS." BOPS is a charter member of VCX.

VoiceRay CGW enables high-density, carrier class Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functionality on systems on chips. BOPS' VoiceRayTM CGW delivers up to 192 channels of G.729a or 512 channels of G.711, both with 32ms of G.165/168 echo cancellation on a single chip. VoIP features supported include G.723.1/726/728/729a vocoders; G.165/168 16, 32, 64, 128 ms echo cancellation; VAD, CNG, DTMF; and signal classification, running on SIP or H.323 protocols.

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.

About VCX

The Virtual Component Exchange (VCX) is a unique business-to-business (B2B e-commerce organization. It has created the first structured exchange for trading Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) located at http://www.thevcx.com. The e-commerce VCX TradeFloor together with the VCX TransactionWare toolset links the engineering, procure and legal functions of both buyers and sellers with a common toolset and language. This ultimately accelerates completed transactions between buyers and sellers so the VCX fulfils their common business imperative of getting more products to market in shorter time cycles. Visit the website at http://www.thevcx.com.

Note to editors: BOPS is a registered trademark of BOPS, Inc. VoiceRay is a trademark of BOPS, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.