Teja Technologies Expands Its Award-Winning Software Platform with Support for Broadcom's BCM1250 Dual-Core MIPS Processor.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Network Processors Conference West 2003

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2003

Teja Technologies, Inc.

-- Support for Broadcom's multiprocessor architecture

significantly broadens Teja's addressable market --

-- See Teja NP for Broadcom(R) BCM1250 at NPC West Booth # 700 --

Teja Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of embedded networking and communications software, today announced a new version of its Teja NP software platform that supports the Broadcom(R) SiByte(TM) BCM1250 broadband processor. The BCM1250 is a leading edge, highly integrated, low-power, dual MIPS64(TM) broadband processor designed to perform complex networking, communications and storage protocol processing tasks. This single-chip solution has been designed into a wide range of high-volume, high-performance applications such as enterprise routers, Layer 4-7 server switches and appliances, storage area network (SAN) switches, iSCSI/multi-protocol storage appliances, 2.5G/3G wireless Radio Access Network (RAN) and core infrastructure equipment as well as virtual private network (VPN)/firewall/intrusion detection gateways.

"As the market for programmable communications processors has evolved, it has become clear that there are various chip architectures that an OEM might choose for their designs and each has its own advantages," stated David Stepner, Teja's president and CEO. "Just as we continue to experience success supporting the network processor architecture, it was clear to us that we also needed to support a communication processor approach with an industry leader who has vision, success and commitment in this area. Broadcom's technical excellence, strong market presence and significant customer traction made them an ideal partner for Teja."

With this announcement, many OEM design teams that are developing high-performance systems with the BCM1250 -- such as enterprise workgroup and backbone switches, VPN gateways, SAN gateways, access concentrators, web-server switches and wireless infrastructure equipment -- can now take advantage of Teja NP's ability to efficiently coordinate code execution across multiple processors, shared memory and other hardware resources. The combination of Broadcom's BCM1250, coupled with Teja's NP software, will increase system performance and dramatically improve the OEMs' time-to-market while reusing their existing code.

A key feature of the Teja NP software for Broadcom is the NPOS runtime system, which provides OEMs with a parallel processing framework and rich library of system service APIs. NPOS is optimized for high throughput packet processing in the data plane and for managing a large number of stateful contexts in the control plane, thus enabling much greater performance than a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In addition to increased system performance, NPOS saves OEMs the considerable task of developing their own data plane runtime system.

Teja's unique approach to embedded networking applications greatly simplifies development of software for parallel, multiprocessing architectures. An OEM's primary challenge in designing with these types of systems is in properly partitioning the application code among the multiple processors, allocating shared memory, and building a framework to support scheduling, inter-processor communication and synchronization. Teja NP gives OEMs the ability to define a complete system's application logic in a C-based, hardware-independent model that is separately mapped to the various resources of the target hardware configuration, resulting in the automatic generation of optimized production code for the target system. The benefits of using Teja NP include the development of reliable, high-performance products that provide OEMs with a first-to-market advantage with significant reduction in engineering risk. The Teja approach will support the entire Broadcom broadband communications processor line including the BCM1125H single core processor and the forthcoming quad core processor.

"Broadcom's customers recognize the advantages of using our dual-core BCM1250 to deliver highly differentiated products to their markets, through superior system performance packed into a smaller space and power envelope, at a lower overall system cost," said David Kranzler, Senior Director of Broadcom's Broadband Processor Line of Business. "The availability of Teja's platform support for the BCM1250 now enables our customers to use the advanced BCM1250 dual-core processing silicon much more effectively. In addition, as Broadcom moves towards quad core processing, Teja's NP software platform allows OEMs to easily migrate their applications across the product line, thus leveraging their investment."

In order to further speed time-to-market, Teja NP makes it easy for OEMs to integrate with their existing software as well as third-party ISV applications such as protocol stacks, and to leverage the familiar tool chains available for the standard MIPS architecture.

Teja has also announced support for popular development and production board products based on the BCM1250; the Broadcom BCM91250A and BCM91250E evaluation boards and Force Computer's Everest PrPMC Reference Module. In addition, Teja is supporting Motorola Computer Group's Packet Computing Resource Board (PCRB), which contains two BCM1250 devices and provides additional choices to the system designer.

Teja NP for Broadcom, which consists of an Application Development Environment, Network Processing Operating System (NPOS), and a library of foundation application building blocks including IPv4 Forwarding, is available now. Interested parties can view a demonstration of the latest version of Teja NP at the Network Processors Conference taking place in Parkside Hall, Oct. 21-23 in San Jose, Calif. More information is available at www.networkprocessors.com.

About Teja

Teja Technologies, located in San Jose, Calif., is a privately held software company developing the industry's first advanced network processor software development platform. Teja's NP software will save systems vendors money and speed their products' time-to-market, providing a significant competitive advantage in today's fast moving networking markets. Teja is backed by world-class investors including Blueprint Ventures, Intel Communications Fund, Mayfield, RRE Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Viventures. For additional information on Teja Technologies, visit the company's website at www.teja.com.

Broadcom(R) and SiByte(TM) are trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. MIPS64(TM) is a trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.