Ubicom Announces Bluetooth™ Technology Partnerships

Hardware, Software Relationships To Enable Wireless Connectivity Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF - MAY 28, 2001 - Ubicom, Inc., today announced partnerships with two leading Bluetooth™ wireless technology developers that will lead to high-performance, low-cost wireless connectivity solutions. The agreements with Signia Technologies, of Milpitas, Calif., and Adamya Technologies Inc., of Bangalore, India, will link Ubicom’s Internet Processor chips and networking software with Bluetooth™ communications hardware and software. This will allow manufacturers of office equipment, home appliances, computers, and a wide range of other devices to quickly and cost-effectively incorporate wireless communications capabilities and Internet connectivity into their products.

"Ubicom is dedicated to making device-to-device and device-to-person communication truly ubiquitous, and we recognize that wireless networking will play a significant role in making that happen, with Bluetooth™ being a key component," said Ubicom President and CEO Bulent Celebi. "Signia and Adamya are both focused on making Bluetooth™ more cost-effective and easier to implement, and we’re very excited to be working with them. This partnership combines their Bluetooth™ technical capabilities with our overall networking and semiconductor expertise, leveraging our software-based technology in a way that will allow us to deliver powerful, integrated wireless solutions to our customers and enabling a wide range of applications"

"Allowing our customers and partners to capitalize on the Bluetooth™ marketplace more rapidly and cost-effectively will benefit everyone by expanding the demand for and use of wireless technology, and creating opportunities to meet that demand," said Marshall Wang, CTO of Signia Technologies. Ubicom’s solution will include Signia’s Ulysses SBT5010 Radio IC which offers a small 5mm x 5mm footprint, low power consumption, and supports the industry standard BlueRF interface allowing it to connect to products such as Ubicom and Adamya’s Software Radio. "We look forward to working with Ubicom and using its unique ‘software system-on-a-chip’ technology to make wireless connectivity available to a wider user base, more quickly and cost-effectively than can be done with all-silicon approaches," said Wang.

Vijay Sampath, Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Adamya Technologies Inc., said, "Adamya has developed the most compact embedded Bluetooth™ protocol stack and baseband in the world today. A partnership with Ubicom is a logical step because their unique value proposition is based on implementing functionality in software to minimize silicon content, and we fit perfectly into that model. They have the ‘best-in-class’ processor chips for Internet connectivity and a software-based design approach that easily accommodates our Bluetooth™ stack, and we’re extremely pleased to be working with them."

About Signia Technologies

Signia Technologies is a premier wireless solution provider with strong expertise in wireless integrated circuit, software, system, and networking design. Signia’s Ulysses family of Bluetooth™ solutions includes radio and baseband ICs, protocol stacks, antenna design, a software development kit, and manufacturing kits for products such as PCMCIA and Compact Flash. The company works in partnership with other Bluetooth™ members, customers, and value-added companies to provide the highest performance in Bluetooth™ using the most cost-effective technologies. Signia is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth™ Special Interest Group.

About Adamya

Adamya specializes in delivering "Very-Compact, High-Performance" embedded solutions to customers worldwide. Adamya delivers these solutions in the areas of digital signal processing, networking and communications, wireless communication (Bluetooth™, IEEE 802.11, HiperLan-2) and platform technologies (RTOS, embedded Java Virtual Machine). Since its inception in 1996, the company has registered many IPs (intellectual properties) in the above fields, and has delivered many solutions with small footprints to the market. These small-footprint solutions include: the Bluetooth™ protocol stack with all layers and a 10K-byte footprint; a software baseband controller for Bluetooth™ with an 18K-byte footprint; an embedded Java Virtual Machine platform with a 9K-byte footprint: and an RTOS with a 956-byte footprint.

About Ubicom

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Ubicom, Inc., enables ubiquitous communications. Ubicom is the leading supplier of Internet Processors and protocol stacks that will connect billions of devices to the Internet. Ubicom implements communications and control functions as pre-built software modules that run on the Internet Processors. This approach reduces time to production and system cost, while providing greater flexibility, compared to traditional design approaches.