Duisburg, Germany – February 3, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, Axis Network Technology, a leader in remote radio heads and software defined radios , and CommAgility, a leading manufacturer of signal processing modules for wireless baseband applications, today announced  a joint demonstration at MWC Barcelona, for HSPA and LTE base stations. The demo will be at mimoOn’s booth: Hall 2, Stand 2B17.

mimoOn’s mi!PicoT base station software has been integrated on CommAgility’s AMC-3C87F3 signal processing module targeting base station products. The software encompasses PHY and Protocol Stack layers that are full featured and certified based on the latest versions of the 3GPP standards. mimoOn’s software is modular and written in ANSI-C language, which allows flexibility and scalability, with advanced algorithms such as advanced channel estimators and MIMO detectors. In addition mi!PicoT is written for low memory and power consumption which are critical design requirements for small base stations.

Axis integrated remote radio heads provide a superior software definable platform solution that combines multi-band and multi-mode capabilities with world leading system efficiency. They can simultaneously support 4G LTE and 3G HSPA networks providing an ideal platform for mimoOn’s base station software and CommAgility’s signal processing hardware.

CommAgility’s AMC-3C87F3 is a highly integrated 4G wireless PHY processing and timing module in the popular AdvancedMC form factor. It includes three SFP module sites for Remote Radio Head (RRH) interfaces, a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA and three Texas Instruments multicore DSPs, Gigabit Ethernet and an IDT Serial RapidIO (SRIO) infrastructure, and a GPS receiver with optional holdover for eNodeB timing. It is part of a family of wireless focused AdvancedMC products, with the latest development, to be announced for MWC 2010, providing PHY, MAC and control capability for a complete single sector LTE eNodeB solution.

“Next generation networks such as LTE demand high processing capabilities but with optimized and cost-sensitive architectures. By combining mimoOn’s advanced LTE software with flexible radio head technology from Axis and MicroTCA-based hardware from CommAgility, we have been able to provide a turnkey solution that will meet the performance and cost targets of base station OEMs and service providers,” according to Thomas Kaiser, CEO of mimoOn.

At MWC Barcelona, mimoOn will showcase their advanced LTE PHY implementation running on CommAgility’s MicroTCA baseband hardware. The demo will show live streaming video running on 5MHz, 64QAM LTE channels and over onto mimoOn’s LTE Test Mobile. Air interface signals will be displayed on a Rohde & Schwarz CMW500 wideband communications tester, proving that the software is robust, system tested, and standards compliant.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is in Barcelona, Spain from 15-18 February 2010. For more information seewww.mobileworldcongress.com.

Contact mimoOn at info@mimoon.de to set up an appointment.

About mimoOn

mimoOn GmbH is the LTE pioneer in end-to-end software implementation and system design on SDR platforms. The company’s scalable and modular 3GPP LTE infrastructure software families “mi!FemtoTM & mi!PicoTM” and terminal software family “mi!MobileTM” allows equipment manufacturers to fully exploit the numerous benefits of SDR. mimoOn’s pre-certified Physical Layer (PHY) and Protocol Stack (MAC, PDCP, RLC, and RRC) software packages assure fast time to market, conformance to the latest release of the standards, ease of integration, and design to the lowest BoM. Thanks to SDR, mimoOn’s LTE hardware product “mi!TestMOBILETM” delivers an affordable, highly flexible, portable test device enabling a reduction in CAPEX and OPEX for OEMs & network operators.

Due to the team’s strong background from tier 1 mobile phone manufacturers and the company’s ongoing research at leading-edge academic institutions, mimoOn is able to provide highly innovative solutions to the cellular industry. The company has been voted into EE Times annual list of Emerging Startups and also listed as one of Germany’s most promising High-Tech companies. Visitwww.mimoOn.de

OTTAWA, CANADA, February 3, 2010 – Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL) today introduced a reference design with Freescale Semiconductor that simplifies and speeds the development of new equipment for wireless service providers evolving their networks to support bandwidth-intense smartphone applications.

“There is ramping demand for our Timing over Packet products and software, as carriers migrate to packet networks to efficiently and cost-effectively support new high-bandwidth smartphone applications,” said Louise Gaulin, Product Line Director of Zarlink’s Timing and Synchronization products. “The ZLE30320 reference design combines Zarlink’s IEEE 1588 Timing over Packet products with industry-leading communications processors from Freescale Semiconductor to provide a complete synchronization solution for packet network equipment. With our technology, wireless operators can deploy packet networks to efficiently deliver new revenue-generating, data-intense smartphone applications and maintain service quality for traditional voice services.” 

Wireless networks face tremendous capacity pressure as consumers increasingly use smartphones to send and watch video, browse the web, and connect over social media. Most notably, traditional backhaul methods that rely on low data rate leased lines to move traffic from cellular base stations to the network backbone are both expensive to operate and overwhelmed by new bandwidth-hungry communication services.

Today, operators are aggressively migrating to higher bandwidth, lower cost packet infrastructures to backhaul traffic across their networks. Where traditional networks are architected to provide synchronization, packet networks must incorporate next-generation timing techniques, such as Zarlink’s IEEE 1588 Timing over Packet (ToP) products, to ensure network synchronization. Zarlink’s ToP products are being used by major equipment suppliers who represent more than 50 percent of the Ethernet wireless backhaul market.

“Zarlink’s comprehensive reference design helps customers speed new equipment design for a rapidly growing market,” said Nikolay Guenov, Growth Segments Marketing Manager for Freescale’s Network Processor Division. “Combining our feature-rich MPC8313 PowerQUICC® processor with Zarlink’s leading timing and synchronization expertise provides a low cost solution for high performance IEEE 1588 applications.”

Availability and support

The ZLE30320 reference design integrates the high performance clock recovery algorithm of Zarlink’s ToP products with the versatile Freescale MPC8313 PowerQUICC processor. For more information visit http://www.zarlink.com/zarlink/hs/82_ZLE30320.htm.

The reference design is available to Zarlink qualified customers. To learn how to become a qualified customer, contact your local Zarlink sale representative (http://www.zarlink.com/zarlink/hs/sales_support_15714.htm).

A high resolution photo of the ZLE30320 reference design is available at http://www.zarlink.com/zarlink/hs/22308.htm.

About Zarlink Semiconductor

For over 30 years, Zarlink Semiconductor has delivered semiconductor solutions that drive the capabilities of voice, enterprise, broadband and wireless communications. The Company’s success is built on its technology strengths including voice and data networks, optoelectronics and ultra low-power communications. For more information, visit www.zarlink.com.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired VaST Systems Technology Corporation to extend its virtual prototyping solutions into the automotive and consumer application space. The acquisition adds a comprehensive set of processor sub-system models frequently found in automotive and consumer applications to Synopsys’ virtual prototyping portfolio. Processor sub-system models allow developers to accelerate the virtualization of electronic systems and to start software development nine to 12 months prior to the availability of silicon.

“In order to meet the stringent development requirements associated with today’s growing electronics and software content in automotive and consumer products, developers are virtualizing their electronic sub-systems to start software development earlier, improve their productivity and deliver better-tested, higher quality products,” said Joachim Kunkel, senior vice president and general manager of the solutions group at Synopsys. “By adding VaST’s complementary virtual prototyping solutions to Synopsys’ existing virtual and rapid prototyping product portfolio, we can deliver a robust system prototyping solution to automotive and consumer application developers.”

Virtualization is a key technology to improve software development productivity and system verification. Virtual prototypes enable pre-silicon software development and complement traditional hardware/software verification approaches. They represent one of the fastest-growing opportunities in the system-level design and verification market segment.

The terms of the deal, which closed February 1, are not being disclosed. Synopsys does not expect the transaction to have a material impact on 2010 revenue or earnings per share (EPS).

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys’ comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 65 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.