Tality Achieves Latest Qualification for Bluetooth 1.1

Baseband Solution Compliant With Bluetooth Specification Across US, Europe and Japan

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2001--Tality Corporation today announced its Bluetooth baseband controller and lower protocol stack Intellectual Property (IP) has successfully completed the most current Bluetooth 1.1 qualification from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Tality's qualification to the newest test requirements guarantees customers a complete pre-certification of Tality's Bluetooth IP. Tality, the world's leading supplier of Bluetooth licenses, has already assisted a number of customers in Japan, Europe and the US, through the qualification process to accelerate the development of their Bluetooth applications.

"We believe the Bluetooth standard has reached a critical stage for the development of mass consumer applications," said Simon Jones, general manager of Tality's Bluetooth Business Group. "Therefore, it is important for us to qualify against the latest test requirements. The recent qualification of our suite of Bluetooth IP, coupled with our ongoing participation in the industry's UnPlugFest events, demonstrates our commitment to achieving full interoperability for our client's products."

Tality's Bluetooth Track Record

Tality's Bluetooth IP portfolio includes a baseband controller core with lower protocol stack, an upper protocol stack, an FPGA-based development platform, and a SoC integration platform. In addition, Tality has developed silicon-proven radio frequency (RF) transceiver architecture.

Tality has been a member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group since its inception in 1998. It is one of only five adopter members invited by the promoters to join the Radio Working Group, which is chartered with making significant enhancements to the Bluetooth 1.x specification. In addition, Tality has been at the forefront of Bluetooth interoperability testing by establishing its open-access Bluetooth Product Interoperability Verification Facility. The Facility enables product designers to run Tality's pre-developed UnPlugFest test scripts enabling them to identify and de-bug interoperability problems during the design phase.

About Tality

Tality Corporation, a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN - news), is the world's largest electronic product development outsourcing provider. Leading and emerging technology companies around the globe leverage Tality's engineering services and intellectual property for the design of complex electronic systems and integrated circuits. Tality is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information about Tality, please visit us at www.tality.com

Tality is a trademark of Tality Corporation. Cadence is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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