Nuvation expands Xilinx partnership through Early Adopter Program

San Jose, Calif., November 26, 2001 — Nuvation, a leading electronics design services (EDS) firm in the Silicon Valley, today announced that it has been accepted in the Early Adopters Program with Xilinx Corporation (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in programmable logic solutions. Xilinx established the Early Adopters Program for its select OEMs and EDS firms to collaborate on pre-launch activities and advance training on new Xilinx platform devices. Nuvation is also a certified Xilinx XPERTS design center for telecom/datacom, networking, imaging and video, PCI solutions, Virtex II Pro designs, Xtreme DSP, and system I/O interfacing.

Michael Worry, Nuvation's CEO, said of the Xilinx partnership, "We are pleased to be invited to partner with Xilinx in the Early Adopters program. Many of our clients require us to ramp on the most advanced technology platforms. This partnership with Xilinx enables us to train and prepare for product introductions months before engineering samples become available. Ultimately this benefits our clients by providing rapid development cycles in the most advanced architectures available."

Xilinx Strategic Marketing Manager, Saeid Mousavi, adds "We are pleased to have Nuvation's participation in the Early Adopters program. Their expertise with high-speed designs, sophisticated FPGA designs, and PowerPC is especially critical in light of our newest architecture, the Virtex II Pro. Having a pre-launch trained Xilinx Xpert like Nuvation gives our OEMs immediate access to qualified design expertise."

As the complexity of technology increases, it becomes mission-critical for companies to access engineering services teams fluent in the latest advances. Over the past few years, this requirement has fueled a growing trend among leading technology companies to outsource FPGA designs. Nuvation has built a reputation as the leading Silicon Valley engineering design firm for complex FPGA design and integration. Nuvation has been recognized for its engineering efficiency, scalable resources, and ability to deliver solutions where time-to-market is crucial.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, firmware design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce significantly the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, aerospace, defense, and low-power portable and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.

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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Chris Hallahan
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Nuvation
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chris.hallahan@nuvation.com