Nuvation Expands Partnership with Altera As Certified High-Speed I/O Experts

San Jose, Calif., February 8, 2002 — Nuvation, a leading Silicon Valley electronics design services (EDS) firm, today announced that it has been certified as an Altera High-Speed I/O expert, a select subset of Altera's Consultant Alliance Program (ACAP).

Altera, the leading supplier of Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), created the High-Speed I/O expert pre-screening and certification process as a way to identify and promote engineering consultantancies with specialized skills in high speed design.

Michael Worry, Nuvation's CEO, stated "The past year of formal partnership between Nuvation and Altera has been a great benefit to both parties. Naturally, we are excited to expand the relationship. Altera has developed some incredible cutting-edge platform devices which reduce the schedule and risk inherent to complex, high speed designs. Together we can develop integrated solutions to the benefit of our mutual clients."

With expertise in Altera's high speed PLDs such as Mercury system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions, Nuvation will assist design and integration with Altera OEMs worldwide. Nuvation's specialized skills gives Altera's customers access to unparalleled breadth and depth of engineering expertise, enabling them to rapidly develop programmable devices from concept, through design and synthesis, and into testing and integration.

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