PLX Launches New Oxide Software That Slashes Time to Market, Allows Easy Device Customization

Supports Entire Serial Bridge Family of PCI Express, USB, UART Devices
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLXT), a leading global supplier of
high-performance, feature-rich, semiconductors and software solutions, today
announced release of its Oxide 3.0 software development kit (SDK), an innovative
software application that enables engineers to customize PLX serial connectivity
devices in minutes instead of hours or days. Oxide`s intuitive graphical user
interface (GUI) and step-through workflow provides simple point-and-click
feature selections, as well as text-box entry for fast, error-free device and
driver customization without resorting to complicated code editing.

Leading features of the Oxide SDK include the unique and convenient
automatic-update Design Base, which alerts engineers to all new documentation
and software revisions, thus assuring that designers always have the proper
tools on their local workstation, including data books, application notes and
device drivers.

The Oxide Branding and Installer Creation tools allow easy custom configuration
of the PLX device drivers and the ability to create custom installers (e.g.,
setup.exe) via step-thru windows, thus avoiding complicated source code editing.
This customization includes adding logos, graphics and text, which personalize
the product to the designer`s brand. Oxide`s EEPROM programming utility and INF
file editing tool allows the user to avoid editing at the low level, which is
both time-consuming and error-prone. This simple text entry format covers the
needs of the vast majority of users.

"As system complexity continues to increase -- driven by higher levels of
integration and complexity on today`s system-on-a-chip silicon -- the data
communications side of the system also has become equally important," said
Richard Wawrzyniak, senior market analyst for Semico Research. "The approach of
aiding the solution designer with powerful software tools to allow rapid and
comprehensive configuration of the silicon is essential if market windows are to
be met to keep time-to-market within the necessary boundaries. The Oxide 3.0 SDK
from PLX Technology provides the necessary tools to system designers that allow
them to hit their market windows and time-to-market targets."

Oxide 3.0 has been developed to support the entire PLX serial bridge family of
products including the new OXPCIe200 PCI Express-to-USB host controller bridge.
Other PLX serial connectivity solutions supported by Oxide include interfaces
with PCI Express, UART, PCI, Parallel Bus and Local Bus. These products are
standards-compliant and high-performance solutions with certified device drivers
for a wide range of operating systems.

Oxide can be downloaded today at no cost by visiting www.plxtech.com/oxide.

About PLX

PLX Technology, Inc. (www.plxtech.com), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA, is a
leading global supplier of high-performance, feature-rich, system-interconnect
semiconductors, SoC and software solutions for the communications, storage,
server, compute, embedded-control, and consumer markets. The Company provides a
competitive advantage through an integrated combination of experience,
innovative silicon, powerful design tools, and synergetic global partnerships.
These unmatched PLX solutions are based on established technologies including
PCI Express, USB, SATA, Ethernet, and FireWire that enable our customers to
develop equipment with industry-leading performance, scalability, security, and
reliability, and bring their designs to market faster.

PLX Technology and the PLX Technology logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of PLX Technology, Inc.All other product names that appear in this
material are for identification purposes only and are acknowledged to be
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.Other names
and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

CommonGround Communications (for PLX)
Jerry Steach, 415-222-9996
jsteach@plxtech.com

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