Catalytic Inc. Nominated by EDN Magazine In Its 15th Annual Innovation of the Year Awards Competition; DeltaFX Chosen as One of Four EDA Finalists.

NEWTON, Mass. -- Catalytic Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist for this year's EDN Innovation of the Year Awards. Instituted in 1990, the awards honor people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year.

This year's program features 16 categories: Innovator of the Year; Analog Integrated Circuits (ICs); Application-Specific Standard Products /Systems on Chips (ASSPs/SOCs); Communications/Networking ICs; Digital ICs; Electronic Design Automation (EDA); Embedded Systems; Intellectual Property (IP); Passive Components/Sensors; Power ICs; Power Supplies; Processors; Software; Test & Measurement; Best Contributed Article; and the Greatest Innovation of the Past 15 Years.

Catalytic's DeltaFX(TM) software was selected in the EDA category because it automates the path from algorithm specification to implementation by shortening the conversion process of digital signal processing (DSP) floating-point algorithms to fixed-point versions.

DeltaFX allows designers to use The Mathworks' MATLAB to develop signal processing algorithms for a variety of implementation targets including DSP cores, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application specific ICs (ASICs). DeltaFX software enables designers to quickly convert their floating-point algorithms to fixed-point, a previously manual error-prone task. Throughout the quantization process, designers now have at their disposal fixed-point constructs in MATLAB, a numerical analysis and visualization environment, and a fast simulation engine.

The four nominees within the Innovations of the Year EDA category demonstrated significant advances in technology and/or product development during the past 12 months and shipped in volume in the 2004 calendar year. Remarks EDN Editor-in-Chief John Dodge: "As the saying goes, many are called, but few are chosen. Our technical editors have done outstanding work on the difficult task of identifying the finalists. The differences in the products EDN covers are often subtle and tricky to flush out. Congratulations to all the finalists on a job well done and see you March 7 in San Francisco."

In the next few weeks, EDN's worldwide audience of electronics engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select the ultimate winners from among these finalists. EDN's editorial staff and the EDN Editorial Advisory Board also take part in determining the final winners. The magazine has encouraged its readers to review each of the nominees by visiting its website located at: http://www.edn.com. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on March 7, 2005 in San Francisco.

About EDN

EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information. Headquartered in Newton, Mass., EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN.com, the only full-content, EOEM publication and website.

About Catalytic Inc.

Catalytic Inc. speeds the development of DSP applications by creating an efficient path from algorithmic specification to implementation. Catalytic was founded in 2001 by Dr. Randy Allen, a successful entrepreneur, world-renowned compiler technology expert and the co-author of the book, "Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach." Corporate headquarters are located at 1076A East Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. Telephone: [phone]. Facsimile: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. More information about Catalytic Inc. can be found at its website located at: http://www.catalyticinc.com.

MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks. DeltaFX is a trademark of Catalytic Inc. Catalytic Inc. acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.