HyWire Ltd. Expands Product Line With New Search Engine Manager and Co-Processor For Low-End and Mid-Range Routers and Switchers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Communications Design Conference 2004

NETANYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004

Company Also Announces General Purpose Module

to Accelerate Time-To-Market for New Designs

HyWire Ltd. today introduced two new options for communication system design for low-end and mid-range routers and switchers. The company's HySem(TM) product is a search engine manager that provides the lowest cost building block for implementing forwarding information base and classification information base functions in routing and switching. The HyCount(TM) product is a high performance, low cost DRAM-based co-processor for massive statistics accumulation and key event monitoring of packets crossing routers, switches or network appliances. Both the HySem and HyCount are available as soft macros or standard products.

In addition, HyWire is introducing HyFlex(TM), a general-purpose module based on the Spartan(TM) - III 2000 FPGA from Xilinx. When loaded with either the HySem or HyCount soft-macro, and mounted on a printed circuit board, HyFlex executes the HySem or HyCount functions.

"With these new products from our HyCognito(TM) family, we provide customers the options they want for performance, price and system design," said Moshe Stark, founder and CEO of HyWire Ltd. "Now customers can select the specific functions they need, giving them greater design flexibility and performance levels much greater than TCAMS, at a much lower cost. These are ideal solutions for low to mid-range designs."

HySem DRAM-based Search Engine Manager

HySem provides forwarding and classification solutions that meet the massive complexity and growing performance required of today's IP networking infrastructure. It surpasses the current state-of-the art TCAMs in look-up speed, chip count, power consumption, density, scalability, flexibility, integration and cost.

Key Features and Benefits

-- Up to 400 million searches per second (standard product). Up

to 100 million searches per second in HyFlex module. HySem is

currently capable of higher speeds that can't be utilized due

to today's memory speed limitations.

-- Over 4 million IPv4 entries (typical standard product or SoC,

at 100 million searches per second). Over 2 million IPv4

entries in HyFlex module at 50 million searches per second

-- Supports multiple types of look-up tables such as IPv4/IPv6

and MAC/VLAN

-- Deterministic search latency

-- Use of standard DRAM devices (RLDRAM I or II or FCRAM II) to

reduce system chip count, lower power consumption and provide

a low-cost option for search engine design.

-- Provides forwarding, classification, packet filtering, quality

of service, policy-based forwarding and security functions at

the network backbone and edges

-- Optional integration with HyCount for accounting and billing

etc.

HyCount High-Performance Co-Processor

HyCount accumulates statistics and monitors key events on packets moving across routers, switches and network appliances. It's valuable for database accounting and billing, flow control, detection of traffic violation and detection and prevention of harmful traffic.

Key Features and Benefits

-- Statistics collection up to 200 million counts per second

(Peak) per counter

-- Up to 2 million counter/timer groups (or 4 million

counter/timer groups at 100 million counts per second); five

programmable-width fields per group perform the following

functions:

-- Packet count aggregation and reporting

-- Byte count aggregation and reporting

-- Time-stamp update

-- Maximum event rate violation detection and

reporting

-- Timeout expiration detection and reporting

-- Enables Enterprises, ISPs, MSPs and carriers to measure the

exact traffic for accounting and billing at the backbone and

edges of the network

-- Enables Enterprises, ISPs, MSPs and carriers to detect

denial-of-service attacks and intrusion attempts

Both the HySem and HyCount provide the customer with flexible design options. As soft macros, they can be integrated into a system-on-chip (SoC), or an FPGA-based module, like HyFlex.

HyFlex FPGA-Based Module

The HyFlex module, packaged as a single device with a BGA-compatible footprint (FG900), can be programmed to emulate the HyCount and HySem devices. Its small size, 65mm x 65mm, makes it easy to mount on a printed circuit board. The module consists of a Xilinx Spartan III-2000 FPGA, three Micron 288Mb RLDRAM(TM)- II devices and 8Mb of flash memory. The HySem, HyCount or other soft macros can be loaded into the on-board flash memory to define HyFlex functionality. This allows the user the flexibility to define, test or update the soft macros.

Price and Availability

HyFlex will be available as a stand-alone module in Q2 2004 for $300 per unit in quantities of 10,000. The HySem and HyCount soft macros will be available in Q3 for implementation in the HyFlex module. Both can be evaluated now by customers. The HySem and HyCount soft macros for system-on-chip designs, along with standard products based on gate arrays, are expected to be available Q4.

HyWire's pricing for IP cores is based on a license and royalty model. Standard components are expected to be $200 per unit in quantities of 10,000.

Note to Editors: HyWire will be demonstrating its new HyFlex module at the Communications Design Conference March 29 - April 1 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, booth # 3041.

About HyWire

HyWire provides search engine solutions for forwarding, classification, billing and security applications. HyWire search solutions utilize DRAMs to facilitate the implementation of massive-storage at the lowest cost possible at search rates up to 400 Msps. HyWire products are available in various forms, such as licensed FPGA-embedded soft cores, embedded arrays and custom-designed silicon chips. HyWire has headquarters and research and development facilities in Netanya, Israel. For more information about HyWire visit www.hywire.com.

RLDRAM is a trademark of Infineon Technologies AG in various countries, and is used by Micron Technology, Inc. under license from Infineon. Spartan is a trademark of Xilinx. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.