Staccato Communications Adds Dan Meacham As VP of Engineering; Start-up UWB Company Attracts Large Investment and Top RF CMOS Talent.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2003

Staccato Communications, Inc. (formerly Discrete Time Communications), an innovator in Ultra-wideband (UWB), today announced Dan Meacham has joined its management team as Vice President of Engineering. In that position, Meacham will be responsible for leading the development of Staccato's all-CMOS silicon products. This announcement coincides with Staccato's announcement of a $7.5M first close in Series A funding.

Meacham joins Staccato from National Semiconductor where he was director, integrated circuit (IC) design in the wireless data division and where he lead a team of engineers responsible for the design and test of an all-CMOS Bluetooth radio IC and an 802.11a/b/g radio chipset. Prior to then, Meacham was a founder and lead analog IC designer of InnoCOMM Wireless where he lead more than a dozen CMOS design projects to production until the company was acquired by National for $150M in 2001. Previous to that Meacham spent several years as an analog designer with PCSI that was later bought by Rockwell Semiconductor where he also worked as analog IC design engineer.

"There has been a lot of talk and academic papers on the subject of building high-frequency RF in CMOS in the past five years, but so far only a small number of RF CMOS chip designs have actually shipped in volume. Dan is one of the few to have brought RF CMOS to high-volume production, and we are glad to add him to the team in this key role," said Staccato CEO Roberto Aiello.

"Dan brings to Staccato a proven track record of taking high-frequency RF CMOS chips into volume production. His experience combined with our existing patented, all-CMOS architecture and prototype demonstrates Staccato's commitment to bringing the first all-CMOS, standards-compliant, UWB products to market," said Dino Vendetti, general partner at Bay Partners and Staccato board member.

Meacham holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering with concentration in economics from Harvey Mudd College. He lives in San Diego where Staccato is based.

About Staccato Communications, Inc.

(Formerly Discrete Time Communications, Inc.)

Founded by industry pioneers who have developed Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology since 1996, Staccato is the only company to use CMOS processes to enable universal wireless connectivity of high-speed devices using available UWB spectrum. Company management has actively promoted industry standards through IEEE and ETSI committees and is now developing new standards for high-speed personal area networks (PANs) as well as very low-power PANs. Staccato is a fabless semiconductor company based at 5893 Oberlin Drive, Suite 105, San Diego, CA 92121. For more information, go to www.staccatocommunications.com or contact Mark Bowles, 858/642-0111 or 415/699-3411.

Note to Editors: Complementary MOS (CMOS) is the most widely used type of integrated circuit for digital processors and memories.