GDA Positioning to Make a Major Impact in 3GPP and WiMAX/LTE Being a Power Architecture...

GDA Positioning to Make a Major Impact in 3GPP and WiMAX/LTE Being a Power
Architecture VAR

Powerful 405S and 460S PowerPC technology enables IPTV and 4G applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading
supplier of configurable, reliable and production-proven Intellectual Property
(IP) solutions and services for Communication, Storage and Consumer markets,
today announced that it has entered into an agreement to become an IBM Power
Architecture Power Design Center. The agreement provides GDA the right to
directly sublicense PowerPC processor cores as part of its IP and Services
offerings. GDA customers can take advantage of GDA's expertise in developing
SoC's utilizing Power Architecture-based processor cores.

Currently the agreement covers the PowerPC 460S, a high-performance CPU core,
and the 405S, a medium-performance CPU core. Both cores are cache configurable
to meet the specific requirements of the SoC application, and include a set of
latency-sensitive native CoreConnect peripherals with a PowerPC license. An
optional floating point unit is available for the 460S. GDA plans to "harden
these cores" for proven, reliable integration into SoCs. Hardened 460 and 405
cores will be optimized for performance, power, and size for specific
technologies and applications.

New applications like Online Gaming, Web 2.0 and Mobile TV are increasing the
data usage significantly. These applications have live streaming of data that
promotes 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to work on the Long-Term
Evolution (LTE). LTE is the next generation of GSM/EDGE and High Speed Packet
Access (HSPA) network technologies. GDA plans to significantly increase
throughput by enabling PowerPC-based LTE stacks and LTE base stations (eNode
B). GDA plans to offer complete hardware and software components based on
PowerPC Architecture that will deliver superior Quality of Service (QoS) for
WiMAX/LTE systems required by applications like IPTV and VOIP.

"GDA is excited to be Value Added Reseller (VAR) of the Power Architecture as
it will be able to reduce risk and cost of its customers' SoC by hardening
PowerPC cores. Both 460S and 405S are key in applications such as servers,
3GPP, VOIP and Mobile TV where GDA will be playing an important role," said
Ravi Thummarukudy, VP and General Manager of IC and IP division at GDA. "GDA
is strategically positioned to accelerate SoC designs by improving time to
market and complementing the design with its high-performance IP's like Serial
Rapid IO, PCI-Express and Fast Ethernet."

"Customers around the world are putting Power Architecture to work in their
products, in their offerings, and for their customers," said Bernard Meyerson,
IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances. "The time-tested, market-proven,
highly scalable nature of the Power Architecture fits extremely well with
their objectives of performance, time to market, scalability and software
protection. GDA is a Power Design Center that can add unique value on top of
Power Architecture, and will offer their customers some of the most complete
solutions in the market."

GDA IP blocks are validated and certified by standard consortiums such as
PCI-SIG PlugFest, HyperTransport consortium, UNH and RTA. Complete
interoperability with major PHY vendors, exhaustive verification with major
verification partners and availability of 24/7 support and services make the
GDA offering the most reliable and complete IP solution in the market place.

About GDA Technologies:

For more information about GDA, visit http://www.gdatech.com/IP.shtml

About IBM:

For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com

Contact:

Nilesh Amin
Nilesh@gdatech.com
408-467-3513

PR Contact:

Krishna Kumar
Krishna@aprilmedia.com
510-213-1223

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SOURCE GDA Technologies, Inc.

Nilesh Amin, +1-408-467-3513, Nilesh@gdatech.com, PR Contact: Krishna Kumar,
+1-510-213-1223, Krishna@aprilmedia.com