BOPS announces Wireless LAN SoC in a Box

Enables First Configurable and Interoperable SOC Solution For Multi-Standard Wireless Networking Applications

Mountain View, Calif., May 21, 2001 - BOPS, Inc., a leading provider of programmable broadband DSP cores, today announced its second SOC in a Box^TM with its multi-standard Wireless LAN solution. BOPS Wireless LAN SOC in a Box is a licensable system-on-chip (SOC) solution designed to drastically reduce time-to-market and technical risk for wireless vendors and chip companies. It was developed in conjunction with partners Tality Corp.; HelloSoft, Inc.; Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Applied Electronics; and is supported by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

"The various 802.11 standards are still in flux. We have the ideal solution for situations such as week before last when the FCC opened new options for the 2.4 GHz band," said Mark Bowles, president and COO, BOPS, Inc. "The beauty of BOPS architecture is that it is inherently scalable and reusable -- and therefore flexible enough to adapt to whatever the standards ultimately look like."

"With this SOC in a Box, we offer wireless equipment vendors and chip companies the ability to rapidly introduce new wireless products -- dynamically programmable and low power -- for any or all standards," said Bowles. "Additionally, as a thread co-processor to ARM, MIPS and other hosts, BOPS allows customers to leverage existing software infrastructure already ported to their choice of host CPU."

BOPS Wireless LAN SOC in a Box is a pre-packaged application solution that includes complete sample hardware and software design along with implementation services for IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a, and ETSI BRAN HiperLAN/2 wireless applications. Also, the solution fully supports other applications using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), in both unlicensed and licensed radio frequency bands, i.e. IEEE 802.16 standards.

The SOC design is offered by BOPS in collaboration with Tality Corp., which provides hardware, system, and radio front-end design services; HelloSoft, which provides software services; and Fraunhofer Institute, which provides IP and design services. Customer-specific implementations of the SOC design -- including system design, peripheral design and SOC implementation services -- are available through Tality, Fraunhofer IIS-A, BOPS and their respective partners.

Including fully configurable MAC and PHY, the Wireless LAN SOC in a Box delivers the only complete and programmable solution for new software-defined Wireless LAN integrated products.

The foundation of the Wireless LAN SOC in a Box is the BOPS WirelessRay^TM DSP core that meets the high-performance and low-power needs for wireless access points, client adapters, and other network-enabled mobile devices. BOPS WirelessRay core delivers 802.11b/g/a physical layer processing at less than 70mW. A hard macro of WirelessRay will be available in TSMC's 0.13µ process in Q301. BOPS WirelessRay soft core is available now. (See press release "BOPS Introduces Industry-Leading, Low-Power, High-Performance DSP Cores for Mobile Wireless Markets," dated May 21, 2001.)

BOPS SOC in a Box includes:

RTL for the SOC design
SOC evaluation and design platform
All DSP software
All system software
SOC implementation services
RF chipset design and board layout
Other third-party alliances
Foundry services

An evaluation kit is available and includes:

Travis^TM Prototyping Board provides a real-time, high-speed platform for prototyping customer specific solutions and evaluating the system elements of an SOC built around the scalable ManArray^® architecture cores. Multiple degrees of freedom allow customers to quickly build custom prototypes by attaching specific peripheral and radio modules through add in ports, ARM host daughter card, and by utilizing the large on-board field programmable logic resource.
Software Development Kit (SDK) integrates the compiler, assembler, linker, loader, debugger and simulator tools into a seamless environment for DSP application development, and allows customers to compile C and MATLAB files quickly and efficiently into BOPS ManArray assembly code for their DSP applications.
Evaluation software package from BOPS and HelloSoft.

Information on BOPS Wireless LAN SOC in a Box and future half-day seminars can be found at http://www.bops.com/.

About BOPS
Based in Mountain View, Calif., BOPS, Inc. develops and licenses a fully scalable, synthesizable DSP architecture that is programmable and reusable for evolving communications, mobile multimedia and wireless applications. BOPS' DSP architecture, cores, compilers, system tools and complete SOC designs offer total life-cycle solutions and rapid time-to-market. While providing the highest performance in the industry, BOPS cores are DSP co-processors to ARM, MIPS and other hosts and are supported by an extensive alliance of hardware, software, tools and design partners. For more information, please visit http://www.bops.com/.

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Note to editors: BOPS is a registered trademark and ManArray is a trademark of BOPS, Inc.

Contact info:

Ashok Setty
HelloSoft
408-377 0110, ext. 104
ashok@hellosoft.com

Martin Speitel
Fraunhofer IIS_A
+49 (0)9131-776-441
spt@iis.fhg.de

Jim Douglas
Tality
408-944-7955
jimd@tality.com

Dan Holden
TSMC
408-382-7921
dholden@tsmc.com

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