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MOSAID Introduces Comprehensive Search Engine Development Platform for the Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 Network Processors

Software Development Kit (SDK) and Hardware Evaluation System cut development time

Intel Developer Forum, San Jose, CA – February 18, 2003 – MOSAID Technologies Incorporated today announced a co-processor development environment that integrates MOSAID's family of network search engines with the Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 network processors. The development environment includes a software development kit and the DC9000EV1 hardware evaluation platform to provide customers with a complete design acceleration environment that enables system designers to rapidly develop and verify application software.

"Our goal is to minimize our customers' development cycles," said Romain Saha, Director of Marketing at MOSAID Technologies. "With the introduction of this development environment, MOSAID is providing system designers with a complete solution designed to significantly accelerate their time to market while reducing cost."

Software Development Kit (SDK)
The MOSAID SDK includes a foreign object model (FOM) for data-and cycle-accurate simulation of the MOSAID Class-IC® DC9000, a network search engine optimized for use with the Intel IXP2XXX product line of network processors. For use in the Microengine Development Environment of the Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture Software Development Kit (IXA SDK) 3.0, the FOM allows system designers to develop microengine data plane application software independently of hardware development. Provided as a WindowsÒ dynamic link library, the model provides advanced error checking and debug capabilities.

The MOSAID SDK includes a data plane macro library and APIs to support DC9000 functionality. Control plane functions for initialization and maintenance operations, tools and reference software are also provided.

DC9000EV1 Hardware Evaluation Kit
Designed specifically to complement the Intel development platform, the DC9000EV1 hardware evaluation kit connects directly to the Intel platform over the QDRÔ SRAM/ NPF LA-1 standard interface. The hardware kit combined with the simulation environment allows developers to achieve a greater level of verification and optimization of application code than would be possible with a simulation environment alone.

"Our customers should benefit from the interoperability between Intel network processors and MOSAID's DC9000 network search engine," said Nick Finamore, General Manager, Intel Network Processor Division. "Integrating MOSAID's software suite and search engine hardware evaluation kit into the Intel development platform will help designers to develop new products quickly and efficiently."

MOSAID Network Search Engines
MOSAID provides high performance network search engines that accelerate packet processing in next generation networks. MOSAID's network search engines offer the industry's lowest per megabit power consumption while providing key features and functionality for advanced networking applications.

Optimized for applications using commercially available network processors, the DC9000 integrates the QDRÔ SRAM/ NPF LA-1 interface. By including this interface, the need for costly FPGA devices between the DC9000 and industry leading network processors is eliminated.

To further facilitate system designs based on commercially available network processors, the DC9000 supports multiple contexts and an instruction set that simplifies programming in multi-threaded environments. By providing multiple LA-1/QDR interfaces, the DC9000 can be shared across multiple Network Processors for full duplex architectures.

About MOSAID
MOSAID Technologies Incorporated is an independent semiconductor company operating through three divisions:

• Semiconductor – a fabless provider of networking chips
• Intellectual Property – a licensor of intellectual property to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide
• Systems – the leading supplier of engineering memory test and analysis systems to memory manufacturers, foundries and fabless chip companies.

Founded in 1975, MOSAID is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with offices in Santa Clara, California; Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Company’s web site at www.mosaid.com.

MOSAID is a member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, for more information please visit intel.com/go/ica. Intel, IXP and XScale family are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

MOSAID is a member of the Network Processor Forum.

For more information, please contact:

Investor Inquiries Heidi Vincent Director, Investor Relations & Communications 613-599-9539 x1205 vincent@mosaid.com

Media Inquiries Sara Haskill Communications Specialist 613-599-9539 x1228 haskill@mosaid.com