Wave Issue 0309 3/28/03 Article 5-01

***IBM Licenses Jennic ATM Technology
(March 24)

Jennic, a supplier of system-level cores (IP) and silicon design
services, today announced that IBM has entered into a license
agreement for Jennic ATM IP. IBM plans to offer Jennic's cores as
part of its ASIC library, available to IBM's ASIC customers for a
range of network access, edge and core applications including
wireless infrastructure equipment. Jennic also plans to provide
services to IBM and its customers for any customizations to the
Jennic IP.

The agreement covers Jennic's range of ATM cores including its
AAL5 SAR (segmentation and reassembly engine), AAL1/2
coprocessors and software device drivers. The cores are being
tuned to IBM technology, including the use of the Core Connect
bus interface, allowing a PowerPC processor subsystem, such as a
control plane processor, to be developed.

Jennic's range of IP has been designed for integration in complex
SoC designs and are implemented in silicon by a number of
semiconductor and telecommunication companies. ATM still pervades
the telecommunications and internet infrastructure and is
required in new designs for a combination of upgrading legacy
equipment and emerging technologies such as 3G basestations and
DSL networks.

Jennic is a provider of System Level Intellectual Property and
silicon design services to the broadband communications market.
Jennic's Intellectual Property portfolio includes intelligent
physical layer framers and high speed interfaces for wide and
metropolitan area networks, ATM SAR Engines for broadband access
networks and mixed signal systems based on a library of mixed
signal modules. Jennic has been a member of IBM's Blue Logic
program since shortly after its inception and over the past years
has completed several successful customer projects using IBM's
processes.

www.jennic.com