NEuW Intellectual Property releases first of its product-enabling IP families.

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1997--Design Automation

Conference--

New IP Firm Develops Applications-Oriented Groups Of Cores,

Applies System Design Experience to Help Partnering Customers

Achieve Product Success

Intellectual property (IP) provider NEuW Intellectual Property Ltd. today announced the availability of four new families of cores providing IP-based design solutions for particular applications areas. These IP Families are:

-- Internet Protocol Solutions, for supporting and integrating multiprotocol and Internet technologies to develop products such as routers, level 3 switches, and network interface cards.

-- Home Links @ Speed, for creating fast telecommunications links to the home for cable modems, home Internet links, home video links, and other similar products.

-- Satellite Solutions, for integrating satellite communications technologies to create products such as multi-mode digital cellular phones and Windows CE2.0 platforms.

-- GSM Solutions, for integrating GSM digital cellular technology for smart-phones and other such products.

These initial IP Families are drawn from the four technology areas in which the company has extensive expertise: Telecommunications (the Internet Protocol Solutions and Home Links @ Speed Families); Digital Cellular (the Satellite and GSM Solutions Families); Graphics; and Interconnects.

These initial IP Families also reflect three-month-old NEuW IPs different approach to IP delivery. Rather than simply build up a shopping list of various IP products, NEuW IP partners with selective customers working in developing hardware products, applies systems expertise and creates IP to help the customer succeed with their project, and then packages that IP and expertise to form a deliverable IP Family.

In this way each IP Family is developed only on the basis of a successful design project, and each can grow and expand with additional project successes in that application area.

The company will be presenting these IP Families and discussing its approach to customer success at DAC, Booth 1997.

The NEuW IP Difference

NeUW IP believes that high-quality, easy-to-use cores are not enough to ensure the user's success with an IP-based design methodology.

"IP today cannot be one-size-fits-all," said Jon Howes, president of NEuW IP. "We are like the tailor who applies skill and experience to make off-the-rack (reusable) suits fit perfectly on each and every customer."

NEuW IP's unusual approach to the IP challenge has been to create a virtual corporation unifying a widespread team of strategic and developmental partners. This approach follows from NEuW IP's parent organization, Networked European Workforce Systems (NEuW Systems), which has applied the same approach to hardware product development in their four specialist market sectors with great success since 1993.

"Working in partnership with the NEuW Systems virtual corporation has accelerated some of our recent Telecom product developments," said Stan Anderson, head of Ericsson Components in the UK. "The latest product design team formed for us by NEuW Systems is typical of the quality service we have seen, providing a wide range of system design skills in VLSI, software and complex board level design."

NEuW IP is a single company that wholly owns the IP products it sells. The central management core is augmented by five Corporate Shareholders who also own a part and are tied to the success of the company: NEuW Limited (UK), BCI Development (UK), DCT (UK), Infinite Designs (UK), Hantro Products Oy (Finland). Together these firms bring a wide array of ASIC and systems design experience, resulting in a NEuW staff of 43; 19 of these are dedicated to IP development, testing, and application.

The virtual nature of the company extends to additional outside development partners. These currently include ISS of Belfast and Sierra in San Jose. The company is growing through the addition of development partners as well as through seeking Strategic Partnerships with customers around the world who need early access to the IP Families being introduced. Interested parties should contact NEuW IP directly.

Elements of Core Technology Delivery

As part of the IP Family approach, each NEuW IP core has been developed by systems design experts with industry-leading experience in the specific application area. Most have derived from real-world development projects with various clients and so their accuracy and reliability has been proven.

Because it is focused on helping customers achieve success with every IP-based project, NEuW IP provides a comprehensive set of materials with each Core Technology package, including:

-- A market driven specification describing the application-area requirements relevant to the core.

-- System-level behavioral models in VHDL or Verilog.

-- Synthesizable design descriptions in VHDL or Verilog, with a full test bench and complete synthesis scripts.

-- Complete detailed documentation of the part. Most importantly, IP Family core partners get direct support from the experienced ASIC and systems designers that make up the NEuW IP engineering group.

About the New IP Families

Various specific cores in the IP Families -- such as an HDLC core and a range of DSP solutions -- are available for immediate delivery; others will be available over the next four months. (Please see the NEuW IP Web site at www.neuw.co.uk for current details.) Prices are designed to make IP-based design affordable, but vary by IP Family and the scope of each customer partnership. Please contact NEuW IP directly for more information.

About NEuW IP Ltd.

NEuW Intellectual Property Ltd. was established in 1997 to apply the efficiencies of a virtual development and sales corporation to the challenges of IP creation and distribution. NEuW IP unifies a worldwide team of experienced ASIC and systems designers who develop new IP and help customers succeed with an IP-based methodology. NEuW IP aggressively supports industry standards and is an active member of VSIA and RAPID. -0-

Contact information for company headquarters is:

NEuW Intellectual Property PO Box 8, 1 Church Meadow Greenfield, Oldham, OL3 7LZ, United Kingdom Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Web: www.neuw.co.uk

NEuW IP Families and Core Technology are trademarks of NEuW Intellectual Property Ltd.

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