BOPS Appoints General Counsel

BOPS Appoints General Counsel

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----May 17, 2000--BOPS®, Inc., a leading programmable DSP core provider, today announced that the company has appointed Kathy L. Camp as its first general counsel. Camp joins BOPS from ARM  and reports to Victor Young, who also recently joined BOPS as CFO from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP.

BOPS develops and licenses high performance DSP cores as well as providing top tier OEMs with hardware, software tools and engineering support to quickly and efficiently design Internet, multimedia and communications products using BOPS ManArray(TM) DSP core family.

Carl Schlachte, BOPS CEO, noted, ``Kathy Camp is joining us as we position ourselves to address the growing interest in our high-performance, DSP-based intellectual property. Her experience with the legal issues surrounding intellectual property and technology license agreements are important assets to us going forward and I welcome her to our executive team.''

Most recently, Camp was responsible for handling the legal aspects of technology transfers for ARM, a multinational UK-based company that designs and licenses intellectual property for microprocessor cores. Prior to this, she has held positions on the Santa Clara University High-Technology Advisory Board (Santa Clara, Calif.), at Williams, Pinelli & Cullen ( San Jose, Calif.) and Silver & Taube ( San Jose, Calif.). Camp received her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law (Santa Clara, Calif.).

About BOPS, Inc.

BOPS, Inc. is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that develops and licenses high performance, scalable and reusable DSP cores and compiler and software tool products for high-volume, SOC-based applications for the Internet, multimedia and wireless communications markets.

ManArray DSP cores accelerate a SOC manufacturers' time from product concept to high-volume shipment. The ManArray technology has been designed to integrate with MIPS® and ARM(TM) processor-based SOCs.

Kathy Camp can be reached at 650/254-2812 or kcamp@bops.com.

Note to Editors: Photo available on request.
           BOPS: Billions of Operations per Second
           DSP: Digital Signal Processor
           SOC: Systems-on-Chip

BOPS is a registered trademark of BOPS, Inc. and ManArray is a trademark of BOPS, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Contact:
     BOPS, Inc.
     Renee Anderson, 650/254-2810
     renee@bops.com
      or
     Valley PR
     Georgia Marszalek, 650/345-7477 (BOPS PR Counsel)
     georgia@valleypr.com
 

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