Nuvation announces GEOS-10i in collaboration with Intel Corporation

Variant of GEOS-10 IP Core, optimized for Intel GbE and SONET OC-192 chipsets

San Jose, Calif., July 23, 2002 — Nuvation today announced that it has signed an agreement with Intel Corporation to develop an enhanced version of the GEOS-10 IP Core, optimized for the Intelâ IXF1110 10-Port Gigabit Ethernet MAC and IXF1810x family of OC-192c POS/GFP and 10GbE LAN and WAN Framer/MAC products. The GEOS-10 is a licenseable IP Core that can multiplex and de-multiplex up to ten Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) datastreams into a single OC-192c channel.

The GEOS-10i, available in September, will add support for Jumbo Packets and other enhanced routing and data buffering capabilities. It will also be integrated and tested in hardware, muxing data from the Intelâ IXF1110 10-port Gigabit Ethernet MAC to a single OC-192c Framer/MAC, the Intelâ IXF1810x. The GEOS-10i will be integrated with four Altera POS-PHY Level 4 (PL4) cores and will be implemented in a single Alteraâ APEX-II device. Intel, Altera, and Nuvation will co-market the integrated solution to major telecom and datacom OEMs worldwide.

"Communications OEMs require high-reliability, high-availability solutions in an environment that is increasingly challenged by emerging protocol standards operating in legacy topologies." stated Michael Worry, CEO of Nuvation. "This joint development effort with Intel and Altera will create a validated plug & play solution to address the challenge of meshing ubiquitous Ethernet LANs with long haul optical WANs. By demonstrating this functionality in hardware, we can accelerate time-to-market and reduce risk for major communications OEMs worldwide."

Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is becoming the preferred communications protocol for LAN backbones, Network Storage, and other high-speed networking requirements. Long haul and metro area network architectures were designed to carry voice data on a SONET ring topology. The GEOS-10i bridges these protocols and topologies to enable multi-channel GbE traffic over SONET at up to 10 Gigabits per second, or OC-192 speeds.

Other GEOS-10i features include Jumpo Packet support, configurable destination port address, compliance with Frame Mapped Generic Framing Procedures from ITU-T, and GbE Traffic statistics per port. The core supports full-duplex operation.

The GEOS-10i is currently optimized for the Altera APEX II device architecture and interfaces with Altera POS-PHY Level 4 cores, licenseable from Altera Corporation. The GEOS-10i will be available in mid-September. Licensing fees are expected to be $25,000 for a netlist version. RTL source code licenses are also available. For more information, please email ipcores@nuvation.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. More information is available at www.nuvation.com

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