Local San José-based companies team up to offer comprehensive hardware/software solutions that deliver low power, high performance and flexibility

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., March 15, 2006—LynuxWorks™, a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that it has joined the Xilinx® Alliance Program. The program is designed for third-party companies to take a proactive role in optimizing their products for efficient design and development with Xilinx programmable solutions. LynuxWorks and Xilinx are working together to enable LynuxWorks' complete family of embedded software solutions to take maximum advantage of the high performance embedded processing capabilities of the Xilinx Virtex-4 family.

Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs are the industry's only devices to offer multiple platforms that can be tailored to meet the requirements of different applications across a variety of end markets. When combined with LynuxWorks' unique open-standards based product portfolio, customers from the communication, industrial and defense/aerospace market segments are offered a comprehensive solution that can be easily ported from soft real-time embedded Linux to the hard real-time LynxOS RTOS family. By utilizing the differentiated Linux ABI within LynxOS, customers can do this with very little effort and maximum software reuse.

"LynuxWorks is in a unique position in the market with its comprehensive and flexible embedded software offering," said Mark Jensen, senior manager of Embedded Ecosystem Strategic Marketing at Xilinx. "As market needs evolve, LynuxWorks provides developers with the ability to upgrade their embedded operating system by seamlessly porting from one system to the next. This is an important addition to our Alliance Program."

"We are delighted to be partnering with Xilinx, which is such a well respected technology leader," said Robert Day, vice president of LynuxWorks. "Our portfolio is a perfect match for Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs. These high performance devices with embedded IBM PowerPC cores, combined with our industry leading embedded software solutions will offer developers a powerful, industry standard choice and an enormous amount of design flexibility."

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 technology leader in the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry. LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San José, California.

LynuxWorks is a trademark and LynxOS and BlueCat are registered trademarks of LynuxWorks, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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