EPI and ADI Engineering Announce Partner Agreement; EPI and ADI Engineering Partner for Intel XScale Microarchitecture Development Platform Support.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM--Embedded Performance, Inc. and ADI Engineering Inc. today announced they have partnered to offer EPI's MAJIC(TM) Multi-processor Advanced JTAG Interface Controller support targeting ADI Engineering's hardware reference designs and evaluation platforms for the Intel XScale microarchitecture. The two companies will initiate their partnership with support for ADI Engineering's 80200EVB development platform.

The 80200EVB is an ultra-high performance yet low cost open hardware reference design and evaluation board that enables the full performance of the i80200 XScale(TM) processor. With its industry-leading XScale memory performance, the 80200EVB enables performance-intensive applications for XScale including data communications, networking, and graphics and image processing.

The MAJIC emulator family provides a high-speed hardware interface for debugging XScale and ARM processors including ETM and the XScale on-chip trace support. MAJIC works with industry-standard debuggers via 10/100Base-T Ethernet for remote debugging with fast download speeds. MAJIC Series emulators are available with a choice of EPI debuggers, or may be used with the ARM debuggers or any RDI 1.5.1 compliant third-party debugger.

Their ability to expand to support additional cores, debug interfaces, and SoC devices eliminates the need to buy new emulators for each project, thus reducing cost. In addition, the MAJIC provides logic analyzer triggering interface, programmable JTAG clock speeds, support for adaptive clock technology and extensive self-test features.

"We are excited to offer the MAJIC family of emulators, the first product to support real-time on-chip trace for XScale, which gives source-level debug capability," said Jackie Su, product marketing manager for EPI. "Our MAJIC for XScale continues to provide world class state-of-the-art capabilities which support the industry trends toward highly-embedded multiple-function and SoC designs."

"EPI's MAJIC delivers a world-class JTAG debug solution for the rapidly growing XScale developer community," said Steve Yates, President of ADI Engineering. "Our partnership with EPI further enhances the value and functionality of our XScale development platforms."

The partners will demonstrate the MAJIC on the ADI Engineering 80200EVB at the EPI booth.

About ADI Engineering Inc.

ADI Engineering Inc. is a leading provider of hardware reference designs, evaluation platforms, and custom design services supporting the Intel(R) XScale microarchitecture and other microprocessor architectures. Founded in 1991, ADI also offers rapid-deployment custom development of advanced data communications, embedded computing, broadband wireless, digital video, and network security products. ADI Engineering is an authorized third-party design partner for a number of semiconductor OEMs including Intel and Xilinx.

Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, ADI Engineering is a privately held company. For more information about ADI Engineering, please visit http://www.adiengineering.com or call [phone].

About EPI

EPI provides complete development solutions for the full range of XScale and ARM based processors and cores. Products include development boards, software toolkits, board support packages for popular real-time operating systems, target-resident debug kernels, full-featured source-level debuggers, JTAG intelligent debug probes and in-circuit emulators. EPI is an industry leader in development tools for RISC processors that has focused exclusively on RISC architectures since it's founding in 1987.

Headquartered in Milpitas, California, EPI is a privately held company. For more information on EPI, contact Sales at [phone], Email: [e-mail] , or visit EPI's web site at http://www.epitools.com.