Seven New Members Join the RapidIO Trade Association

AUSTIN, TX, May 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
The RapidIO(R) Trade Association, dedicated to driving the development and
adoption of the RapidIO interconnect standard, today announced several
milestones
underscoring its position as the preferred choice of embedded designers,
including members, its latest technology roadmap, and a new Marketing Working
Group Chair.

"The versatility, performance and breadth of hardware and software solutions
supporting the RapidIO standard make it the preferred solution for
next-generation
systems in a variety of market segments," said RapidIO Trade Association
Executive Director Tom Cox. "Our newest member companies bring valuable
expertise
and perspective to our organization while clearly recognizing the value of our
ecosystem and the opportunity to contribute to its future direction."

The RapidIO Trade Association ecosystem grew with the addition of GE Fanuc
Intelligent Platforms, HDL Design House, Motorola, Nortel, Qualcomm, RMI
Corporation, and Wintegra as members of the RapidIO Trade Association. Driven in
part
by interest in the RapidIO Trade Association's Bus Functional Model (BFM),
these companies are actively working to develop the standard to meet the high
performance needs of the embedded market globally.

Ecosystem Growth

"Serial RapidIO has helped us deliver the leading edge performance our
customers require in demanding applications such as radar, sonar and
communications processing," said Mike Stern, Product Manager for
Multiprocessing at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. "The extensive
ecosystemof merchant silicon, IP and software products that Serial RapidIO
brings with it
provides us with the flexibility to develop a broad range of powerful
solutions. Joining the RapidIO Trade Association demonstrates our commitment
to the technology over the long term."

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a joint venture between General Electric
(NYSE:
GE) and FANUC LTD of Japan, is a high-performance technology company and a
global
provider of hardware, software, services, expertise and experience in
automation and embedded computing.

"We are pleased to be joining the RapidIO Trade Association and look forward
to becoming active members as we expand our product offerings for
next-generation enterprise and infrastructure solutions," said Nazar
Zaidi,vice president of engineering, Communication Processor Solutions, RMI. "As
a
provider of multi-core multi-threaded processing solutions, the RapidIO standard
will be an integral component for our target market segments."

RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly
integrated,
feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized Super System-on-a-Chip
(SuperSOC(TM)) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital
Consumer,
Wireless, Networking and Security markets. RMI offers a broad platform of
advanced MIPS(R)-compatible processing solutions supporting frequencies from
300MHz
to 1.2 GHz.

"With access to the RapidIO standard, HDL Design House is interested in
offering complete verification solution for Serial RapidIO design and
systems. We hope that the RapidIO Trade Association members will
recognizethe quality of verification solutions based on Serial RapidIO
technology that HDL
Design House offers," said Predrag Markovic, president and CEO, HDL Design
House. "We have become a RapidIO Trade Association member with the aim, by
directly communicating with the creators and users of this standard, to
jointly achieve the main goal -- greater use of the RapidIO technology on SoC.
The RapidIO Trade Association offers its members a wide range of activities
and marketing opportunities which we found very beneficial."

HDL Design House develops IP Cores, eVC and SystemVerilog-based verification
solutions and
provides complete design and verification services for complex SoC projects.
The
company also delivers VHDL/VITAL models used by major SoC product developers.

The BFM provides interoperability and compliance checking and is supplied as
a
modular behavioral C model and provide a set of features and functions for
simulating and verifying RapidIO systems of arbitrary complexity. The BFM is
available to RapidIO Trade Association members in source code or object code
form and is designed as a flexible tool for the development, evaluation and
verification of RapidIO interface products. For more information visit
http://www.rapidio.org/education/documents/RTA_BFM_documentation.pdf

Technology Roadmap

The RapidIO Trade Association also unveiled its new technology roadmap
thatprovides details about RapidIO Specification Rev. 2.0, and previews the
development of Specification Rev. 3.0, which will continue to be defined
collaboratively over the next 24 months. While the current standard
(Specification Rev. 1.3) will continue to dominate embedded applications for the
foreseeable future, silicon using the latest revision is expected to debut in
2009. Details can be found at http://www.rapidio.org/education/Roadmap/

In addition, the RapidIO Trade Association announced that B. Keith Woodard
has
been named Marketing Work Group Chair. Mr. Woodard, Product Manager in the
Flow Control Management division at Integrated Device Technology (IDT), was
previously Chair of the Trade Association's Global Design Conferences, which
provided
detailed educational and design information to RapidIO technology users around
the world. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering, marketing, and
product management positions at IDT and is currently involved with the IDT
RapidIO solutions for wireless infrastructure applications.

"IDT has seen market acceptance for the RapidIO interconnect dramatically
accelerate
over the past few years, and we feel the trade association marketing efforts
have
played a significant role in this development," said Woodard. "This is an
exciting time to be helping with the marketing working group as RapidIO expands
into new markets and applications. We welcome the addition of new member
companies and look forward to the new technical capabilities of RapidIO 2.0."

About the RapidIO Standard

The RapidIO standard is the embedded interconnect developed by the
embeddedmarket specifically for embedded applications. This ISO-certified,
open-standard
enables best-in-class quality of service and performance in multi-host
embedded processor applications -- from components to systems -- that
require reliable, high speed, cost-effective embedded connectivity. The RapidIO
interconnect standard seamlessly enables the chip-to-chip, board-to-board,
control,
backplane and data plane interconnections needed in networking, communications
and embedded systems.

The RapidIO Trade Association enables, supports and drives the development
of the
RapidIO ecosystem, and provides the information and resources OEMs need to
deliver better solutions, faster. Membership in the RapidIO Trade Association
provides the inside track on information, the opportunity to shape
specifications, access to pooled resources, and superior overall market
awareness. Detailed information on the RapidIO specification, products, design
tools,
member companies, and membership is available at www.RapidIO.org.

RapidIO(R) is a registered trademark of the RapidIO Trade Association.
Product and
company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.

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