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28 April 2008

Implementation Investments

CSR Selects Virage Logic as Its Trusted IP Partner for Next-Generation Bluetooth® Devices

Virage Logic Corporation announced that CSR of Cambridge, United Kingdom, a top global supplier of single chip wireless communications products, has licensed Virage Logic's semiconductor intellectual property (IP) to enable its next-generation technology. CSR will use Virage Logic's Area, Speed and Power (ASAP™) Memory, Self-Test and Repair (STAR™) Memory and STAR Yield Accelerator products for design of its BlueCore™ and UniFi™ product lines.

"Our wireless IC designs demand efficiencies in power consumption, silicon area utilization and yield, and our commitment to product quality obligates the highest test and repair coverage available," said Nick Salter, vice president, IC Integration, CSR. "Virage Logic's silicon proven memory IP portfolio allows us the flexibility to perform tradeoffs between test time, area, and state-of-the-art diagnostics resulting in optimized product implementations. With Virage Logic, we avoid potential delays associated with memory functionality and yield, particularly on new silicon processes."

Virage Logic enables companies such as CSR to proceed with confidence through increasingly advanced lithography process nodes. For next-generation Bluetooth product offerings, CSR is using Virage Logic ASAP memories at 90-nanometer (nm) and will migrate to 65nm where Virage Logic has developed a customized ultra-high density ROM compiler to address unique application requirements.

CSR has also adopted Virage Logic's yield enhancement and silicon debugging tools -- STAR Yield Accelerator -- to effectively bridge the gap between design and manufacturing disciplines and maximize yield. Introduced in October 2007, the STAR Yield Accelerator enables automated ATE vector generation, user-programmable algorithms, silicon analysis, fault isolation to physical coordinates and classification to be used at the critical semiconductor tape-out, bring-up and volume manufacturing

CSR designs single-chip wireless devices for Bluetooth and wireless LAN applications. CSR's BlueCore™ ICs are used in all principal Bluetooth applications, including mobile phones from BenQ, HTC, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung and Sharp; wireless headsets from Hutchison '3,' Jabra, Logitech, Motorola and Plantronics; almost all new models of laptop personal computers with Bluetooth capability introduced since 2003 (including Apple, Dell and IBM); mice and keyboards from Logitech; and in-car communication systems used in Saab, Audi and BMW motor vehicles. BlueCore™ ICs are also approved by Microsoft for use with its Windows operating system.

For more information, visit http://www.viragelogic.com.

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