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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2001-- Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) and MorethanIP (Munich, Germany) today announced a partnership to make available MorethanIP's Intellectual Property/cores (IP/cores) for the Cypress Programmable Serial Interface(TM) (PSI(TM)) family of programmable physical layer (PHY) devices and the Delta39K(TM) family of complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs).

The inclusion of MorethanIP in the IP Oasis partnership program reinforces Cypress's strategy of providing leading-edge solutions for its data communications customers. The IP/cores simplify IP integration into broadband optical, SONET/SDH system designs, providing flexibility and shortening design cycle time. The IP/cores will be available as netlists or RTL source code and will be optimized and pre-fit for both the PSI and Delta39K device families.

``The IP/cores from MorethanIP enable Cypress to provide comprehensive communications interface solutions for the rapidly-growing OC-48/STM-16 and OC-192/STM-64 data communications markets as designers combine PSI PHYs or Delta39K CPLDs with our framers, network search engines (NSEs), network coprocessors, and datapath switching elements (DSEs),'' said Chris Norris, vice president of Cypress's Data Communications Division.

``MorethanIP's IP/cores complement Cypress's programmable platforms,'' said Deepak Sharma, senior IP and EDA marketing manager of Cypress's Data Communications Division. ``The programmability allows integration of custom IP with the POS-PHY L3/Flexbus-4 IP/cores to enable standard communications interfaces to processors, framers and other chips on the board.''

``Partnering with Cypress allows us to offer hardware-verified system solutions to designers through leading-edge products such as the PSI and Delta39K families,'' said Francois Balay, MorethanIP's director of business development. ``This is an opportunity for us to highlight our extensive experience in hardware and software development of high-speed solutions for data and telecommunications applications.''

The IP/Cores

• The Flexbus 4 enables packet-over-SONET/SDH (POS) networking routers to send native IP packets directly over SONET/SDH frames. It enables the transfer of data between a physical-layer framer chip and a link layer processor at 10 Gbps. It is compliant with Optical Internetworking Forum specification OIF-SPI4-01.0. Both Flexbus 4 and SPI-4 Phase 1 transfer 64 bits per clock cycle with out-of-band addressing. Flexbus 4 has an optional 16-bit path for OC-48/STM-16 applications.
• The POS-PHY Level 3 (PL3) interface defines operations between PHYs (such as ATM, POS and Gigabit Ethernet framers) and link layer devices (such as ATM, Internet Protocol and Gigabit Ethernet forwarding devices) at the OC-48/STM-16 aggregate line rate. The PL3 interface is used in Internet Protocol routers, switches, link layer interfaces to processors, and traffic management devices. The MorethanIP PL3 IP/Core is compliant with the POS-PHY L3 of the Saturn Development Group, ATM Forum specification AF-PHY-0143.000 and Optical Internetworking Forum specification OIF2000.008.3.

IP Oasis

The IP Oasis partnership program was designed to be the primary portal for data communications solutions built with IP/cores and Cypress programmable logic devices, such as the Delta39K family of CPLDs and the PSI(TM) family of programmable PHYs. The IP/cores are targeted at a variety of applications, including backplanes, line cards, switches, routers, 3G base stations, VoIP gateways, servers, mass storage equipment, interconnecting workstations, and video-transmission equipment. The IP/cores are available as netlists optimized for use with Cypress's Warp development environment. IP Oasis, located at http://www.cypress.com/pld/ipoasis, allows users to view and select pre-qualified intellectual property cores and directs visitors to the IP vendor's sites for licenses and downloads.

Licensing and Availability

The MorethanIP IP/cores for PSI devices and Delta39K CPLDs will be available in Q4'01 with licenses starting at $12,000 for netlists and $18,000 for VHDL source code. For more information on MorethanIP products please email info@morethanip.com or visit http://www.morethanip.com. For more information on Cypress CPLDs and PSI devices, customers can call 800/858-1810 in the U.S. or 408/943-2600, or visit http://www.cypress.com/pld and http://www.cypress.com/psi.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor is ``Driving the Communications Revolution''(TM) by providing high-performance integrated circuit solutions to fast-growing markets, including data communications, telecommunications, computation, consumer products, and industrial control. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress's product portfolios include high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), network search engines (NSEs), network coprocessors, networking-optimized and micropower static RAMs; high-bandwidth multi-port and FIFO memories; high-density programmable logic devices; timing technology for PCs and other digital systems; and controllers for Universal Serial Bus (USB). More information about Cypress is accessible electronically on the company's Web site at http://www.cypress.com.

``Safe Harbor'' Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are ``forward-looking statements'' involving risks and uncertainties, including by not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Cypress's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks.

About MorethanIP

MorethanIP was founded in 1999 as a GmbH (ltd.) in Munich, Germany, and is an IP and design house concentrating on high-speed communications and DSP technologies. This includes design, specification and implementation of standard products, system architectures and customer-specific solutions. For more information on the company and its products please email info@morethanip.com or visit the company's Web site at http://www.morethanip.com.

Note to Editors: Programmable Serial Interface, PSI, Delta39K, IP Oasis and ``Driving the Communications Revolution'' are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor.

     Cypress Semiconductor
     Louie Yan, 408/943-2817
     LRY@cypress.com
        or
     MorethanIP
     Francois Balay, +49-8932-195-990
     fbalay@morethanip.com