LynuxWorks and ADI Engineering Announce Embedded Linux Development Environment for ADI's Latest Reference Design Platform for the Intel i80200 XScale Microarchitecture

ADI to distribute BlueCat embedded Linux with its high-performance board

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 26, 2002—LynuxWorks™ Inc. today announced that ADI Engineering today has signed a distributor agreement to offer BlueCat® Linux® with its reference card design for the Intel® i80200 XScale™ microarchitecture, the BRH. The software/hardware combination provides customers with an end-to-end solution for developers designing low-power, high-performance applications such as data communications, networking, video processing, and broadband gateways. Users can create their own custom platforms or employ ADI for specialized consulting and design.

The BRH has demonstrated significant new performance levels for i80200 processor operation and data throughput, while providing configurable, big and little-endian mode support. A key differentiating performance feature is its memory interface bandwidth, which benchmarks at 788MB/s sustained operation—a five-fold improvement over first-generation i80200 processor memory controller chips. The BRH is an ideal development platform for low-power, high-performance applications and features a PCI expansion slot, dual Ethernet ports, and unmatched sustained SDRAM bandwidth.

LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux is an open-source embedded development environment without run-time royalties. Packaged with either a Windows or Linux/Solaris host integrated development environment (IDE), commercial grade tools, and support programs, BlueCat meets the diverse needs of individual developers.

"We are enthusiastic about our relationship with ADI," says Bob Morris, vice president of marketing and sales at LynuxWorks. "Customers now have a premier time-to-market solution for very high-performance, Linux-based applications."

"Embedded Linux is an excellent application environment for the i80200 Intel XScale microarchitecture," said Steve Yates, president of ADI Engineering. "We selected LynuxWorks' embedded Linux package, BlueCat, to distribute with our BRH card because it is well- recognized in the embedded Linux community, offers great documentation and support, and its Windows and Linux hosted IDE's and profiler tools are simply world class."

ADI Engineering will demonstrate the BRH and BlueCat at its booth at the Intel Developer's Forum, February 25-28 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California.

Price and Availability

The new BRH and BlueCat development environment package is available now from ADI. For pricing information, please contact ADI Engineering at (434) 978-2888.

About ADI Engineering Inc.

ADI Engineering Inc. is a supplier of high bandwidth hardware reference designs, evaluation platforms, and custom design services supporting the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture. Founded in 1991, ADI also offers rapid-deployment custom development of advanced data communications, embedded computing, broadband wireless, digital video, and network security products. ADI Engineering is an authorized third-party design partner for a number of semiconductor OEMs including Intel and Xilinx. ADI Engineering will distribute the reference design and will produce, sell, and support the BRH platform.

ADI Engineering's headquarters are located in Charlottesville, VA. For more information, please visit http://www.adiengineering.com, contact Sales at +1-434-978-2888, Email: info@adiengineering.com, or Fax +1-434-978-1803.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks is a world leader in the embedded software market, providing operating systems, software development products and consulting services for the world's most successful communications, aerospace/defense, and consumer products companies. Established in 1988, the company is a founding member of the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry, and a leading participant in the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San José, California. The company's products include the open-source BlueCat Linux and the scalable, Linux-compatible LynxOS real-time operating system. World-class companies use LynuxWorks' products, including: 3Com, Alcatel, Boeing, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Marconi, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC USA, Raytheon, TRW and Xerox.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Intel is a registered trademark and XScale is a trademark of Intel Corporation. BlueCat, BlueCat RT and LynxOS are trademarks of LynuxWorks Inc. All other brand names and trademarks mentioned in this document are the properties of their respective holders.

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