BOPS announces new software development kit for its ManArray DSP Core Family

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BOPS ANNOUNCES NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT FOR
its ManArray™ DSP Core Family

Santa Clara. California, DesignCon 2000, February 1, 2000 - BOPS, Inc., a leading programmable DSP core provider, announces immediate availability of version 2.0 of its Software Development Kit (SDK 2.0) for the Company's ManArray DSP product family. The SDK kit provides the tools necessary to develop high-performance, scalable and reusable DSP cores for high-volume SOC applications.

SDK allows customers to convert quickly and easily C, C++ and MATLAB® files into BOPS ManArray assembly code for their DSP applications.

SDK 2.0 offers an integrated development environment including a System Simulator; Instruction Set Simulator (ISS); Compiler for MATLAB and Vector Library; GNU-C compiler, assembler, linker and loader; VLIW packer; Register Allocator; DSP libraries and BOPS ManArray technical information and coding examples.

What Users Say
"We found BOPS' SDK to be a very powerful tool for creating optimized code and for optimizing parallel instructions and deriving cycle counts. This made our process of OpenGL geometry engine development much quicker than expected," stated, Greg Passmore, CTO of 3-D Pipeline (San Diego, CA).

"Design engineers are under extreme time-to-market pressures. Software development and verification typically drives the critical path, so a fast and efficient toolset that allows significant hardware/software co-development is essential," remarked, Richard Tobias, CTO, White Eagle Systems Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
ADD!!! "The BOPS SDK provides this, allowing customers to reach optimized solutions 35% faster."

Price and Availability
SDK 2.0 is immediately available now for a free evaluation period for PC and UNIX operating systems. Orders can be placed over the Internet through the BOPS website-www.bops.com
Price depends on the options selected.

BOPS provides DSP intellectual property in the form of software ("soft" or synthesizable) macros. BOPS offers a wide range of "soft" cores to choose from. All are instruction set compatible and use the same hardware and software development tools.

About BOPS, Inc.
BOPS, Inc. is a Palo Alto, California based company that develops and licenses the highest-performance, scalable and reusable DSP cores and world-class compiler and software tool products targeted for high-volume, SOC- based applications for the Internet, multimedia and wireless communications markets. Current licensees include Mitsubishi/VSIS and SiByte.

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

For information contact:
Renee Anderson, BOPS, 650 330 8410, renee@bops.com
Georgia Marszalek, BOPS PR Counsel, 650 345 7477, georgia@valleypr.com
www.bops.com

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BOPS is a registered trademark of BOPS, Inc. and ManArray is a trademark of BOPS, Inc.
MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Reader Service Contact
BOPS, Inc., 101 University Avenue, Suite 410, Palo Alto, CA. 94301
Attention: Renee Anderson, 650 330 8410, renee@bops.com <mailto:renee@bops.com>

Acronyms
BOPS Billions of Operations Per Second
DSP Digital Signal Processing
SOC Systems-on-a-chip
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word