NetLogic Microsystems Appoints Former IDT CEO to Lead Board of Directors.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000

Len Perham Brings Vast Experience to the NetLogic Board of Directors;

Srinivasan & Broyles Also Appointed as Board Members

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a leader in silicon solutions for high-speed network router and switch address table management, today announced the appointment of Leonard Perham, former president and CEO of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), to chairman of its board of directors. NetLogic Microsystems also announced the appointment to the board of Dr. Varad Srinivasan, NetLogic's co-founder and chief technology officer, and Douglas Broyles, president and CEO of Avalon Data, Inc., a wireless communications solutions company.

A well-known semiconductor industry leader with more than 30 years of technical, operations, sales and marketing experience, Perham served as CEO for IDT from 1991 until his retirement in late 1999. During his 16 years at IDT, he also served as president from 1991 to 1999, as a member of the IDT Board of Directors from 1986 to 1999, and in various other senior management positions. Before joining IDT, Perham was president and CEO of Optical Information Systems, Inc., a gallium arsenide laser diode manufacturer and a division of Exxon Enterprise. During the 1970s, he held management positions at Zilog, Inc., Advanced Micro Devices and Western Digital.

"NetLogic Microsystems has developed an extensive array of very exciting Content Addressable Memory (CAM) and CAM-based Co-Processor solutions that are becoming a crucial part of next-generation networking equipment design," said Perham. "Considering that NetLogic is leading this market with the most advanced silicon search engines available, I'm very excited about leading its board of directors and making a significant contribution as the company moves into the 21st Century."

"It's an honor to have an industry veteran like Len lead our board of directors," said Dr. Norman Godinho, NetLogic Microsystems' president and CEO. "Our silicon search engine solutions are a key enabling technology for handling the complexity of next-generation network and Internet features as well as the explosive growth of performance requirements. Len's vast experience in all aspects of design, operations, sales and marketing will be especially valuable as we tackle the industry's needs for higher bandwidth and functionality."

Godinho added that Srinivasan, with his extensive semiconductor design experience, and Broyles, with more than 25 years of executive and venture capital experience, represent valuable additions to the NetLogic Microsystems' board as well.

Srinivasan, who also serves as NetLogic's vice president of product development, is the principal designer of the company's advanced CAM and Co-Processor family architectures, and has extensive experience in semiconductor design. Prior to co-founding NetLogic Microsystems, Srinivasan was director of design at Quality Semiconductor. He is known for designing the world's fastest bipolar PLD while he worked at Aspen Semiconductor and as IDT's principal designer of SRAMs, specialty and multi-port memory devices. Before IDT, Srinivasan designed DRAM and SRAM memory devices for Fairchild Semiconductor.

Broyles has been involved in venture capital investing and board of director participation in a variety of computer and semiconductor companies including Corvus Systems, Sun Microsystems, Magellan Systems, Mattson Technology, Peak International and Paradigm Technology. At Sun Microsystems, he was one of the original board of directors. During the 1970s and 1980s, Broyles held executive positions at Zilog, International Memories and Onyx Systems.

About NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.

NetLogic Microsystems, located in Mountain View, Calif., was founded with the mission to design and market high-speed silicon search engines and is initially providing advanced products for the networking equipment markets.

For more information about products offered by NetLogic, call toll-free: 877-SyncCAM (877.796.2226) or visit the NetLogic Web site at: www.netlogicmicro.com.