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[July 21, 2008]

TRANGO Hypervisor Demonstrates Secure Platform Virtualization on Texas Instruments' OMAP3430 Processor

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TOKYO, July 21 / MARKET WIRE/ --

TRANGO Virtual Processors?, the leading provider of
embedded virtualization IP, delivers greater isolation and portability of
operating systems and drivers on the TI OMAP(TM) 3 platform. The TRANGO
Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time
operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS,
eCos, ?C-OSII, ?ITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3
platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance
gain over ARM11 based processors. The combination delivers isolation,
flexibility and cost optimization benefits to the design of today's
convergent wireless devices.

Leveraging the high-performance and low power consumption of TI's OMAP3430
multimedia applications processor, the TRANGO Hypervisor is the perfect fit
for mobile platform designers who want to find the optimal balance between
the effective reuse of legacy features, the development of new
functionality, the secure sharing of common hardware resources,
time-to-market, and cost constraints.

With secure platform virtualization, OEMs benefit from an inherently secure
architecture, easier porting of a rich OS or RTOS to the hardware, and
highly portable drivers. On the TI OMAP3430 processor the TRANGO Hypervisor
offers the ability for OEMs to reduce or even eliminate driver changes in
moving from one OS platform to another OS platform, with a positive impact
on the resultant development and validation effort.

"Our product allows developers to eliminate porting costs associated with
peripheral drivers and makes rich OS porting extremely fast," stated Pierre
Coulombeau, Chief Operating Officer at TRANGO Virtual Processors. "With the
release of the TRANGO Hypervisor based on TI's OMAP3430 processor,
customers benefit from a highly portable platform with best-of-class
hardware, the market's leading isolation architecture, and an unprecedented
ability to port software swiftly," he added.

"TRANGO's Hypervisor, when running on the OMAP 3 platform, provides mobile
manufacturers with a powerful platform software flexibility and re-use,"
said Markus Tremmel, worldwide wireless ecosystem manager at Texas
Instruments. "Mobile manufacturers get flexibility in their choice of
operating system."

The TRANGO Hypervisor for TI's OMAP3430 processor will be demonstrated this
week at Expo Comm Wireless Japan, running Linux, Windows CE 6.0, and ?ITRON
simultaneously and securely.

The TRANGO product is available on the ARMv5/ARMv6/v7 and MIPS32/MIPS64
embedded architectures, supports a broad choice of OS and RTOS including
Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, ?C-OSII, ?ITRON and other
proprietary RTOS. It is shipped with a complete SDK and tool suite based on
Eclipse.
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About the Texas Instruments Developer Network

Trango Virtual Processors is a member of the TI Developer Network, a
community of respected, well-established companies offering products and
services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a
broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering
services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to
make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun.

Trademarks:

OMAP is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Other product or service names
mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

About TRANGO Virtual Processors

TRANGO Virtual Processors is a leading provider of virtualization IP for
embedded processors, licensing the TRANGO Hypervisor to major semiconductor
and device manufacturers. The company helps customers build robust
isolation architectures, deploy new value added services, and reduce their
development costs as well as their bill-of-materials. Headquartered in
Grenoble, France, TRANGO Virtual Processors has sales and support offices
in the US, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
http://www.trango-vp.com

TRANGO Virtual Processors Press Contacts:
EMEA
Andry Ramiandrasoa
Marketing Manager
Phone: + 33 (0)4 76 12 28 45
Email: Email Contact
US
Frank Altschuler
Director of Marketing
Phone:(+1) 512 947 7215
Email: Email Contact

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