Nuvation Expands Partnership with Altera Certified DSP Experts

San Jose, Calif, October 1, 2002 — Nuvation, a leading Silicon Valley electronics design services (EDS) firm, today announced that it has been certified as an Altera DSP Partner. Members of the digital signal processing (DSP) chapter of ACAP are industry-leading design service providers that use the combination of their FPGA and DSP expertise to create system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions for Altera's customers.

All partners are trained and certified by Altera and have an outstanding relationship with Altera's sales force. By utilizing these partners' DSP services, customers will have access to engineers with a combination of Altera and traditional DSP expertise making the option to switch to an FPGA-based DSP solution more realistic. Collaboration between Altera and partner increases the quality of services and support for the customer. By using Altera devices, tools, and intellectual property (IP), Altera's partners help designers shorten their design cycles, decrease development costs and risk, and reduce time-to-market for the customer.

Nuvation has many years of expertise in Digital Signal Processing in applications such as wireless FIR and FFT filters, Optical networking spectrum analysis and polarization control, medical imaging, industrial control, and various image processing and security/defense-related projects.

With expertise in Altera's DSP Blocks such as in the Stratix® FPGA family, 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 sythesis, and into testing and integration. For more information, visit the Altera DSP Partners page.

Michael Worry, Nuvation's CEO, stated "Altera's new Stratix® devices with DSP Blocks delivering throughput of up to 56 GMACs in a Programmable Logic Device is a powerful combination. We and our clients are delighted with this new capability and are already integrating this technology in current designs."

Nuvation's VP of Sales and Marketing, Chris Hallahan, added "Altera's DSP Partner program helps OEMs locate partners with DSP expertise to reduce risk and accelerate time-to-market with emerging technologies. Nuvation is an Altera Certified Design Center, recognized among the top five Altera FPGA design partners in North America. Our experience with DSP firmware and algorithm development combined with our FPGA Verilog and VHDL programming talent bridges these two technology platforms seamlessly, to the benefit of our mutual clients."

About Nuvation

Nuvation is a leading Electronics Design Services (EDS) firm that provides FPGA, board, and firmware design services as well as Signal Integrity Analysis and licensable IP Cores for the embedded systems industry. Nuvation's experience spans industries such as Homeland Security/Defense/Aerospace, Medical, Semiconductor, Consumer and Communications. Founded in 1997 and based in San Jose, California, Nuvation's customers include a number of notable companies such as Altera, Boston Scientific, 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