Toshiba Licenses Silicon Magic's DVine The Industry's First Chip-Multi-Processor Architecture With Embedded DRAM for Consumer Electronics Products.

Business Editors/High-tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

Toshiba Will Take Advantage of DVine's Time-to-Market, Performance

and Space Benefits in a Programmable and Scalable SOC Platform

Silicon Magic Corp. today announced that Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has licensed the company's DVine (DRAM Vector engine) architecture to extend its system-level integration (SLI) development capabilities.

Silicon Magic's DVine is the semiconductor industry's first Chip-Multi-Processor (CMP) architecture with embedded DRAM, which will enable Toshiba and its SLI customers to implement system-on-chip (SOC) devices for next-generation consumer electronics products. The growing market for Internet-enabled consumer appliances is characterized by rapidly changing standards for audio video compression and storage. The programmability and modularity of the DVine architecture allows Toshiba's SLI customers the ability to get to market quickly and to adapt to changes in standards without having to completely redesign their product.

Silicon Magic's DVine architecture has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of embedded DRAM as a fundamental building block of system level integration. Toshiba is a world leader in embedded DRAM process technology. The scalable DVine architecture marries well with Toshiba's DRAM technology and enriches Toshiba's IP core portfolio for the consumer and communications markets.

"Silicon Magic is pleased to sign a license agreement with Toshiba in providing a true SOC development vehicle for next generation consumer electronics products," said Shubha Tuljapurkar, vice president and general manager of Silicon Magic's Audio Video Products business unit. "This license agreement helps Silicon Magic establish the DVine architecture, by enabling easy product development and a wide base of applications."

About DVine

The DVine architecture combines a modular hardware architecture with an integrated software development environment to enable rapid SOC-based product development. The basic architecture integrates multiple Computing Modules (CMs) with an appropriate amount of high-performance, embedded DRAM as dictated by the target application. Each identical CM combines both scalar and vector processors for optimal performance in media-centric processing applications such as camcorders, DVR (Digital Video Recorders) players, and information appliances.

DVine's CMP architecture with embedded DRAM allows faster development cycles than traditional ASICs and greater reusability than designs assembled from discrete processor and memory devices. Based on Symmetrical Multi-Processor (SMP) architecture with Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) extensions, this unique approach provides superior scalability over both monolithic RISC/CISC architectures and more specialized "media processor" architectures. OEMs can expand their product functionality and performance by simply adding CMs and embedded DRAM as necessary to their SOC designs.

About Silicon Magic

Silicon Magic Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was founded in 1994 to be a semiconductor industry leader in the consumer electronics and information appliance markets. The company is known for its innovative high bandwidth DRAM memory products. Silicon Magic also provides system-on-a-chip (SOC) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs) with a highly integrated architecture utilizing the physical and electrical advantages of the Company's unique high bandwidth embedded DRAM macros. Silicon Magic tailors the design of these solutions to tackle the stringent requirements of emerging markets through the use of extensive design engineering and system-level integration expertise in the processor, storage, and memory domains. For more information, please contact Silicon Magic at 408/331-8000 or visit www.simagic.com.

Note to Editors: DVine is a trademark of Silicon Magic.