Chameleon Systems Receives Editor's Choice Award From Wireless Systems Design Magazine.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)

March 4, 2002 - Chameleon Systems, Inc. today announced it has received Wireless Systems Design's "Editor's Choice Award" for the C~SIDE Integrated Development Environment. Introduced in August of 2001, C~SIDE is a suite of design and debug tools that enables system architects and hardware engineers to create high-performance signal processing solutions on Chameleon's CS2112 Reconfigurable Communications Processor (RCP) platform.

Cheryl Ajluni, editor-in-chief of Wireless Systems Design magazine, (www.wsdmag.com) presented the award to Bill Salefski, Chameleon's vice president of software engineering, at a ceremony and banquet held on Wednesday, February 27, at the Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo 2002 (www.wirelesssystems2002.com).

"These awards are given out annually as a means of honoring those wireless products and technology developments that stand apart from the competitive field and serve as beacons to which the entire wireless community can aspire," said Cheryl Ajluni. "Chameleon's C~SIDE tools provide today's wireless engineers the capabilities they need to successfully leverage the company's reconfigurable communication processors (RCPs). The result is a complete solution encompassing design, debug, and verification of the RCPs. For engineers working in the design and implementation of Base Transceiver Stations, that equates to not only higher performance gains and access to capabilities not previously possible, but faster time to market as well."

Wireless Systems Design conducts the nomination and voting process for these awards under strict concealment to maintain the credibility and legitimacy of the awards process. Committee members are allowed to nominate up to three companies per award category. These nominations are then distributed to each committee member, along with appropriate documentation, for review and early voting. After substantial debate, the committee narrows the field and conducts a final vote. In situations where the committee members cannot decide between two finalists, each shares the award title as a co-winner. Final voting for this year's award winners was completed in the first week of February 2002.

This year's committee is a veritable "Who's Who" in the editorial community covering the wireless design and technology industry, adding all the more prestige to Chameleon's receipt of the Editor's Choice Award. The WSD 2002 committee members included:

-- Cheryl Ajluni, Editor in Chief, Wireless Systems Design

-- John Blyler, Senior Editor, Wireless Systems Design

-- Nancy Konish, Technology Editor, Wireless Systems Design

-- Lisa Maliniak, Features Editor, Wireless Systems Design

-- Jack Browne, Publisher/Editor in Chief, Microwaves & RF

-- Gene Heftman, Editor, Microwaves & RF

-- Dave Bursky, Editorial Director, Electronic Design

-- Bill Wong, Senior Software Editor, Electronic Design

-- Tets Maniwa, Editor in Chief, Netronics

-- Joe Desposito, Editor in Chief, EEPN

-- Maria Palombini, Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo 2002 Show
Manager

-- Craig Roth, High-Speed Electronics Group Publisher

C~SIDE Tools

The C~SIDE tools provide design capture, simulation and synthesis, verification and system integration. Chameleon also offers a PCI-form factor evaluation board to enable prototyping and verification, thus providing a complete toolkit for designing, debugging and verifying wireless communication systems on silicon. The C~SIDE tools include a full-chip simulator (ChipSim), a complete instruction set simulator (ISS) that models the entire RCP and uses the powerful and familiar GNU Debugger (GDB) front-end. ChipSim provides 100-percent visibility into all memories and registers within the CS2112, both in the fabric and in the ARC processor. With the aid of GDB and ChipSim, a designer can single-step the CS2112 and debug the entire kernel loaded on the silicon as if debugging a normal C program.

"We are honored to have been selected from among so many extraordinary products introduced last year," said Peter Feist, Chameleon's recently appointed CEO. "This prestigious award is truly a testimony to the hard work and ingenuity of our entire engineering staff. The uniqueness of the Chameleon RCP and C~SIDE solution stems from the fact that these software tools and the design methodology innovatively combine the most efficient elements of ASIC, FPGA and DSP design flows. As a result, a sophisticated but easy-to-use RCP design flow with features such as algorithmic design entry via a familiar assembly language syntax and real-time debugging of internal nodes and registers has evolved to enable ASIC-like performance with DSP-like design entry and design validation flow."

About Chameleon Systems

Founded in 1997, Chameleon Systems, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed the industry's first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP)-- a high-performance solution for dataflow-intensive communications systems, software-defined radio, and other embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk. Visit Chameleon Systems at http://www.chameleonsystems.com

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the product name C~SIDE noted in this news release, there is a "tilde", between C and SIDE. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.