Chameleon Systems Welcomes U.C. Berkeley Professor Bob Brodersen to Its Technical Advisory Board.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000

Founder and scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research

Center will contribute to the focus and direction of Chameleon's

reconfigurable communications processor technology development.

Chameleon Systems, Inc. today announced the appointment of Dr. Bob Brodersen to its technical advisory board. Dr. Brodersen is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

"We are thrilled to have someone of Professor Brodersen's stature on our technical advisory board," said Chuck Fox, president and CEO of Chameleon Systems. "His work with next-generation wireless algorithms and protocols at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center affords us an invaluable insight into the performance, power and flexibility requirements of future wireless carrier access and terminal solutions."

Dr. Brodersen has a long and illustrious career in technology research. After receiving his PhD from MIT in 1972, he worked at the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments for three years. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1976.

Dr. Brodersen founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center in 1999 to continue the research accomplished in an earlier Berkeley project, called InfoPad. The center's charter is to provide an environment for research into the design issues necessary to support next-generation wireless communication systems. Their research focus involves highly integrated CMOS implementations which combine efficient energy consumption and advanced communication algorithms.

These wireless applications are intended to support a wide variety of data types ranging from low bandwidth control, voice, and text messaging, up to full rate video in a variety of environments. For this reason, multi-modal capabilities based on software programmability and hardware reconfigurability are considered critical.

"Chameleon Systems' work with reconfigurable processing architectures, especially as that technology applies to wireless system implementations, is a direct overlap with the work we're doing at the research center," said Dr. Brodersen. "In particular, our work with advanced algorithms that increase channel capacity in wireless devices, and our interest in the development of new design methodologies for these devices suggests a real opportunity to collaborate with Chameleon Systems. I'm quite confident that we will all benefit from this relationship, and I look forward to seeing what new opportunities may arise from the application of Chameleon's reconfigurable technology to wireless systems of the future."

TAB Members

The appointment of Dr. Brodersen to Chameleon's TAB brings the total number of members to seven. Other members include:

- Dr. Donald Thomas, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; founder, member of the board of
directors of DASYS, PA.

- Dr. Herman Schmit, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

- Dr. John Sanguinetti, founder and CEO of C2 Design Automation, Inc.; former
founder and CEO of Chronologic.

- Dr. John Wawrzynek, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, CA

- Dr. Mark Ross, Director of Engineering, Gigabit Switch Group, Cisco Systems

- Dr. Don MacMillen, Vice President of Advanced Technology, Synopsys.

About Chameleon

Founded in 1997, Chameleon Systems, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells reconfigurable communications processor (RCP) solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed eConfigurable(TM) technology--an ideal solution for data-intensive, high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP enables equipment vendors to create customized solutions to adapt more quickly to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk.

Note: eConfigurable and eBIOS are trademarks of Chameleon Systems, Inc.