New video-on-demand project plays to Nuvation's strengths

San Jose, Calif., February 12, 1999 — Nuvation Labs Corporation has just begun developing hardware in the hot field of video on demand.

Nuvation’s latest project involves designing a high-speed MPEG-layer video processing unit. This sophisticated unit incorporates hot-swappable compact PCI design, and includes three different boards. The nature of this project gives Nuvation the opportunity to demonstrate its skills in project management as well as board-level design, and further explore compact PCI technology.

"[This project] is very exciting, and it will expand our presence in the hot-swappable compact PCI arena," remarks Darren Zacher, Hardware Engineering Manager. "It plays to some of our key strengths - project management, new technology, and our past experience in project design and management. It’s a good mix."

About Nuvation

Nuvation is a leading Electronics Design Services (EDS) firm that provides ASIC, FPGA, board, and firmware design services for the embedded systems industry. Nuvation's design experience spans industries such as Communications, Consumer Electronics, Medical, and Security/Defense. Founded in 1997 and based in San Jose, California, Nuvation's customers include a number of notable companies such as Altera, Lucent, HP, JDS Uniphase, Infineon, LeapFrog, SanDisk, Finisar, and Trimble Navigation. Nuvation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAR Systems (OMX:IAR). More information is available at www.nuvation.com

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Contacts:

Chris Hallahan
VP Sales & Marketing
Nuvation
408-228-5580 x122
chris.hallahan@nuvation.com