AccelChip Partners with Systems4Silicon to Expand Its Wireless Communications and DSP Design Services

MILPITAS, Calif.--Aug. 31, 2005--To bolster the company's design service capacity, AccelChip Inc., the industry's only provider of automated flows from MATLAB(R) algorithms to silicon, announced today that it is partnering with Systems4Silicon, Ltd., a fully-independent design services company, to provide third-party design and methodology services to their mutual customers.

"Systems4Silicon has a thorough understanding of wireless channel, RF, and digital signal processing algorithms such as filters, frequency translation, closed-loop control systems, and wireless modems," said Tom Feist, vice president of marketing and international sales for AccelChip. "Their commitment to high-end digital design makes them an ideal partner to extend AccelChip's design service offerings."

AccelChip's design services portfolio includes custom DSP core generation, training, and quick-start design services including design flow consulting and hardware-in-the-loop support. In addition AccelChip markets AccelChip(R) DSP Synthesis, which provides algorithm developers and design engineers the ability to take algorithms created in MATLAB and synthesize them into high-quality FPGA and ASIC implementations. The company's AccelWare(R) parameterized DSP cores accelerate the design process by providing intellectual property for commonly used signal processing functions such as filters, forward error correction blocks, and linear algebra functions. Combined, the AccelChip solutions provide a complete DSP solution for markets such as wireless communications, signal intelligence, electronic warfare, radar, and sonar.

"A corner stone of Systems4Silicon is a strong belief in a process-driven approach to engineering that has been applied to develop a robust methodology for the design and implementation of algorithms targeted at FPGAs or DSPs," added Dr. Paul Turner, co-founder of Systems4Silicon. "By including AccelChip DSP Synthesis and AccelWare parameterized DSP cores in our repertoire, we can now offer our customers an automated path from MATLAB to silicon implementation."

About the Companies

Systems4Silicon offers fully integrated design services to the wireless communications and DSP technology industries. With expertise that spans the product life cycle from advanced research to implementation for volume production the company provides solutions that both integrate with and compliment customer's in-house programs. Production design experience of complex signal processing systems for both Altera and Xilinx's advanced FPGAs enables Systems4Silicon to offer flexible services to the broadest community. Robust design flows, incorporating AccelChip, enable a service, which takes technology rapidly from concept to verified product. Founded in 2005 based on a pedigree of consultancy service, research and industry expertise, Systems4Silicon is located in Bristol, England. For further information see www.systems4silicon.com, email info@systems4silicon.com or call on +44 117 942 2004.

AccelChip Inc. is the industry's only provider of MATLAB-based algorithmic synthesis solutions, including DSP intellectual property (IP), for embedded DSP design. The company develops and markets design tools, integrated verification flows, and parametric IP toolkits that combine to automate the development and implementation of DSP algorithms in FPGAs and ASICs. AccelChip's proven solution integrates the domain-specific DSP design environment (MATLAB) with industry-standard hardware design flows from Aldec, Altera, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synplicity, Synopsys, The MathWorks, and Xilinx. Founded in 2000, AccelChip is located in Milpitas, California, and has design centers in Portland, Oregon, and Carlsbad, California. AccelChip's Web address is www.accelchip.com. For more information, contact Wendy Truax at 503-351-0103 or by email at wendy@hipcom.com.

AccelChip and AccelWare are registered trademarks of AccelChip Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies.