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Existing cellphone IC solutions in the industry integrate some of the standard components that comprise the functionality of a handset, including digital baseband, RF transceiver, logic and analog functions. However, Silicon Laboratories' breakthrough innovations in chip design and integration has enabled them to take this process one step further, without compromising performance. By additionally integrating the analog baseband, power management unit (PMU), battery interface and charging circuitry into their single-chip phone, Silicon Laboratories has achieved a level of integration that no other solution in the market today can match.

Leveraging the superior processing performance and low-power requirements of CEVA-Teak to perform the baseband processing, AeroFONE offers a flexible and scalable platform for entry-level GSM/GPRS handsets without using expensive additional co-processors. The high performance of the AeroFONE single-chip phone also allows handset manufacturers to easily meet the stringent performance requirements of cellular network operators worldwide.

"The entry-level handset chip market is one of the most highly-competitive and high-volume markets in the industry," said Dan Rabinovitsj, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "To achieve market penetration requires a solution which delivers exceptional performance with minimal power consumption and at a lowest possible total bill-of-materials. In the AeroFONE(TM) single-chip phone, the CEVA-Teak's low-power and high-performance baseband processing capabilities facilitated the successful inception of this product."

"The combination of CEVA's proven expertise in delivering high- performance, industry-leading DSP cores along with Silicon Laboratories' excellent track record in developing leading-edge handset technologies like AeroFONE, resulted in the creation of a truly unique offering for the handset market," said Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA. "This latest deployment of our CEVA-Teak DSP core further demonstrates the continued adoption of CEVA's technologies by leading semiconductor companies and underlines our position as the industry's leading licensor of DSP cores for wireless communications."

CEVA-Teak is a 16-bit fixed-point general-purpose DSP core. Its dual MAC architecture features high-performance, high flexibility and throughput for complex Digital Signal Processing implementations. The core is designed for low-power, speech and audio processing, multimedia and wireless communications (GSM, CDMA, EDGE, 3G, etc.), high-speed modems, advanced telecommunication systems, and various embedded control applications. CEVA-Teak is designed with consideration for low-power uses to achieve the best possible performance with the lowest possible power consumption. It makes the core suitable to a wide variety of battery-powered portable applications.

About AeroFONE(TM)

The AeroFONE single-chip phone addresses the increasingly competitive handset market where board space is at a premium and total bill-of-materials (BOM) must enable a low cost handset without sacrificing performance.

     *    The AeroFONE single-chip phone supports the industry drive for high
          performance entry-level handsets.
     *    The AeroFONE single-chip phone does not compromise on RF performance
          and exhibits the same industry-leading sensitivity, blocking and
          transmit modulation spectrum characteristics of the Aero(R) II
          transceiver, all key requirements for entry-level handsets. Because
          newer deployments of network infrastructure in developing regions
          lack wide coverage, dropped calls are common if handsets do not have
          good sensitivity. Furthermore, high quality and reliability are
          important in emerging markets where new users will pay as much as
          one month's salary for a mobile phone. Return rates must be kept low
          in such markets as after-sales service is difficult and costly to
          implement for operators.
     *    Silicon Laboratories' approach to the single-chip phone offers a
          flexible and scalable platform for entry-level GSM/GPRS handsets
          without using expensive additional co-processors. Advanced
          multimedia capabilities can be supported with hardware co-processors
          allowing handset differentiation while saving costs.
     *    Silicon Laboratories' flexible software architecture uniquely
          enables handset developers to choose the software solution best for
          them.
     *    For more information visit www.silabs.com/AeroFONE

    About CEVA, Inc.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., CEVA is the leading licensor of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, multimedia, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and storage platforms to the semiconductor industry. CEVA licenses a family of programmable DSP cores, associated SoC system platforms and a portfolio of application platforms including video processing, audio processing, speech processing, GPS location, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In 2004, CEVA's silicon IP was shipped in more than 100 million devices. CEVA was created through the merger of the DSP licensing division of DSP Group and Parthus Technologies. For more information visit www.ceva-dsp.com

NOTE: Silicon Laboratories, AeroFONE and Aero are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein are trademarks of CEVA, Inc.

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