FREMONT, California, July 12, 2001—Genesys Testware, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded test solutions, announced today the first commercially available Built-In-Self-Test product for Content Addressable Memories (CAMs). CAMs are widely used in communication and networking applications. Their unique ability to do tens of millions of searches per second makes CAMs ideal as search engines for packet classification applications.

With the addition of CAM BIST to the existing Genesys Memory BistCore Expert product, Genesys is now able to offer the most advanced and comprehensive suite of embedded test solutions in the industry. In addition to CAM support, Memory BistCore Expert also contains BIST for SRAM, DRAM, Register Files, FIFOs, and ROM. CAM BIST implements unique algorithms that test 100% of all stuck-at faults in the comparator, invalidation logic, mask logic and match lines. CAMs with encoded or decoded match lines and CAMs that have external match lines are also supported.

"Fueled by the growth of networking applications, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of SoCs that contain large amounts of SRAM and CAMs," said Bejoy Oomman, President of Genesys Testware. "We have been feeling the heat to provide a solution for CAM testing from many of our existing customers who are developing chips for networking applications. Now this latest addition to our Memory BistCore product will provide customers with the ability to do embedded testing of various types of memory, including CAMs."

"We have seen tremendous increase in the demand for CAMs," said Mo Tamjidi, President of Dolphin Technology, a supplier of custom memories. "This is especially true for companies that are involved in networking applications. We believe the increased demand is because most of these companies are pushing the limits of performance. CAMs provide a significant improvement over alternative RAM-based search engines because all of the table entries can be searched simultaneously in a single clock cycle."

The product is available now for binary CAM applications. Prices for a site license of Memory BistCore Expert that includes BIST for Register Files, FIFOs, ROM and binary CAMs, begin at $100,000. CAMs are classified as either binary or ternary. CAM BIST for ternary CAMs is planned for Q3, 2001. Support for CAMs without a read port is planned for Q4, 2001.

About Genesys Testware
Genesys Testware, Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of embedded test solutions that covers memory test, logic test and boundary scan. Its products are all silicon-proven in various customer designs. For more information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.genesystest.com # # #