COMIT COMPLETES OC48 - UTOPIA L3 INTERFACE BRIDGE DESIGN USING XILINX VIRTEX™-II PRO PLATFORM FPGA

Santa Clara, California - March 12, 2002: Comit Systems, Inc., the contract engineering company, announced today that it has completed a OC48 to UTOPIA L3 Bridge design on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA. OC48 (2.5 Gbps) full duplex serial backplane interfaces were provided through Xilinx Rocket I/O™ transceivers.

Parallel and serial loopback in hardware were controlled through Virtex-II Pro’s embedded IBM® PowerPC™ PPC405 D5 RISC CPU, using the PPC Device Control Register (DCR) interface. The PPC405 incorporates the IBM CoreConnect™ architecture implementation of the Processor Local Bus (PLB), Onchip Peripheral Bus (OPB) and DCR. In a separate design Comit interfaced its FFT and DDR controller IP cores to the PPC405 PLB and exercised the multipliers in the Virtex-II Pro device.

Comit is a Xilinx Xperts Partner. Comit is also an IBM CoreConnect licensee.

About Comit Systems: Founded in 1992 and recognized as one of the 100 fastest growing, private companies in the Silicon Valley, Comit Systems, through its Design Center in Santa Clara, California provides turnkey Contract Engineering services for electronic product development, including design, integration and project management to build Chips, Board, Software and Systems, using the latest enabling technologies and tools.

Comit Systems and The Contract Engineering Company are registered trademarks of Comit Systems, Inc. CoreConnect and PowerPC are trademarks of IBM Corp. Rocket I/O and Virtex are trademarks of Xilinx, Inc.. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.