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Experience and expertise are driving Comtech AHA Corporation's groundbreaking achievements in communications technology. AHA is a fabless semiconductor company that develops, markets, and licenses data coding technologies such as Reed-Solomon, Turbo Product Codes, Low Density Parity Check Codes, and lossless data compression for the communications, networking, and data storage markets.

Since 1988, AHA has been developing and distributing integrated circuits (ICs). With a history rich in innovation, AHA is a company of firsts in FEC technology, including production of the first single-chip Reed-Solomon IC and the first commercially available Turbo Product Code hardware. AHA was also the first to develop Content Addressable Memory architectures for high-performance single-chip data compression. AHA's current product lines of FEC and Lossless Data Compression products are based on these patented technologies. Comtech AHA Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corporation (NASDAQ:CMTL).

Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia solutions for desktop personal computers, mobile computing, DTV, cell phones, handhelds, consoles and workstation products. The pioneer, innovator and market leader in the graphics industry, ATI’s strength is built upon the strength of its people, its product and technology excellence, customer focus, and its ability to identify and capitalize on key inflection points where new technologies and markets converge. ATI intends to become the world’s leading supplier of rich visual display and media technologies, components and subsystems to the PC and consumer electronic markets.

The wide range of consumer products requiring high end graphics has exploded in the last few years, driven by the public’s wants and desires. ATI supplies graphics processors to Nintendo for the GameCube and has future technology agreements with both Nintendo and Xbox. In the cell phone market, the company is supplying in volume to major manufacturers. On the digital television front, the FCC mandate that televisions be HDTV by the end of the decade will increase demand for ATI’s established DTV product lineup.

MEMSIC, Inc. is a semi-fabless IC company that specializes in Micro Electric Mechanical Systems ICs. MEMSIC has developed and brought to market a unique CMOS based accelerometer that contains no moving parts, is fabricated on a single chip and is manufactured on a standard, sub-micron CMOS process. Memsic's technology turns traditionally expensive and unreliable MEMS accelerometers into highly affordable standard IC products with the highest long-term reliability and performance available today in the IC industry.

MUSIC Semiconductors, Inc. develops and markets ICs that improve Internet and wireless network performance. Within hubs, routers, bridges or switches, wherever an address or routing decision is made, MUSIC devices minimize the time necessary to redirect data and multimedia to the next destination.

Best known for their signature Content Addressable Memory (CAM) technology, MUSIC's CAM products accelerate packet transmission by making a direct address match instead of searching for destination information. After an innovative decade, MUSIC's product breadth makes such functionality available to a wide range of network equipment manufacturers.

Today, embedded system developers are forced to make painful compromises when addressing compute-intensive applications. Their choices include using banks of DSPs
or GPPs, resulting in costly and
difficult-to-program multiprocessor systems; selecting fixed-function chips, which do not allow them to address changing standards or differentiate their products; or mixing processors and FPGAs or ASICs, which requires the design of custom hardware, greatly increasing time-to-market and development costs.

With the introduction of the Stretch S610x family of software-configurable processors, embedded system developers no longer need to trade-off performance, time-to-market and system costs. Developers program and automatically configure the Stretch processor using pure C/C++ —achieving unprecedented performance, easy and rapid development, tremendous cost savings, and the flexibility to address diverse markets and changing application needs.

Summit's programmable power management solutions increase the reliability of switches and routers for enterprise equipment, improve the cost and performance of cellular base stations, ensure reliability in DSL equipment, increase battery operating life in cell phones and improve reliability in products ranging from automotive systems and military radios to marine navigation electronics.

Summit's solutions integrate high level analog circuits with logic and embedded nonvolatile EE memory cells which are all programmable via a simple GUI software interface. This enables Summit to provide platform based solutions rather than point products, enabling both Summit and our customers to enjoy leveraging an individual device across many customer designs, all with unique operating configuration requirements.

TranSwitch is a Delaware corporation incorporated on April 26, 1988. We design, develop and market highly integrated semiconductor devices, also referred to as very large scale integration (VLSI) devices, that provide core functionality in voice and data communications network equipment deployed in the global communications network infrastructure. In addition to their high degree of functionality, our products incorporate digital and mixed-signal (analog and digital) processing capabilities, providing comprehensive system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions to our customers.

Our products are compliant with relevant communications network standards including Asynchronous/Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (Asynchronous/PDH), Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH), Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Internet Protocol (ATM/IP). We offer several products that combine multi-protocol capabilities on a single chip, enabling our customers to develop network equipment for multi-service (voice, data and video) applications. A key attribute of our products is their inherent flexibility. Many of our products incorporate embedded programmable micro-processors, enabling us to rapidly accommodate new customer requirements or evolving network standards by modifying a function of the device via software instruction.

We bring value to our customers through our communications systems expertise, VLSI design skills and commitment to excellence in customer support. Our emphasis on technical innovation and complete reference solutions enables us to define and develop products that permit our customers to achieve faster time-to-market, and to produce communications systems that offer a host of benefits such as greater functionality, improved performance, lower power dissipation, reduced system size and cost and greater reliability for their customers.

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