EE Solutions has entered into distribution agreement with DCD

October 28, 2003

"EE Solutions provides a great opportunity for DCD by extending DCD activity in Taiwan. Primarily, EE Solutions is focused on complete and optimal SoC products delivered to its customers. Stepping forward, DCD's IP Cores are an excellent extension of their highly qualified silicon-proven IP Cores, which are the foundation of modern SoC designs." - said Jacek Hanke, DCD's president.

"We are pleased to commence the work with DCD in Taiwan after a thorough study and investigation on DCD's IPs. We feel we can provide one of the very best solutions to Taiwanese customers with the IP cores from DCD. We also appreciate the support capability DCD can provide. We look forward to working closely together." said Jim Su, CEO and chairman of EE Solutions.

"DCD IP Cores portfolio excels at meeting the Taiwan market demand for proven and low risk ASIC/FPGA IPs. The Digital Core Design cores characterize an industry-leading combination of high performance, low power, and small die size. The DCD's high quality IP Cores portfolio includes microprocessor and microcontroller cores, bus interfaces, floating-point units, and coprocessors. All of these cores are now available at EE Solutions.

About EE Solutions

"EE Solutions was founded in early 1999 with the mission to be a leading value-added ASIC design outsourcing and solutions provider. We have about eighty employees in Taiwan covering our business in North America and the Asia Pacific area. Our headquarters is located in Hsinchu. We deliver our services to our customers converting their design specification or RTL/Netlist into finished products using our SoC integration technology and physical synthesis design methodologies. We also have an EDA/IP sales team to provide sales and application support to our customers.

About Digital Core Design

"Digital Core Design (DCD) provides a broad line of general-purpose IP cores, including 8- 16- and 32-bit processors, peripherals, serial interfaces, floating point arithmetic units, and floating point coprocessors. Formed in 1999 DCD is a privately held company with its headquarters in Bytom Poland. Since starting production in 1999 - DCD has established a reputation for highest-quality products, flexible licensing and quick and responsive technical support. Experiences of our highly qualified engineers allow us to produce IP's with the highest performance and smallest gate count in the market. DCD has a growing list of customers that has resulted in eighty licensed products worldwide to date.