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SAN JOSE, Calif. Nov. 2, 2005

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) and Jungo Ltd. have joined forces to deliver platform solutions for residential and business gateway products. The solutions are based on the MPC8272 PowerQUICC™ II processor family containing a PowerPC® core and powered by Jungo’s popular OpenRG and OpenSMB software platforms. Jungo is a leading provider of home, SOHO and SMB gateway software platforms.

Freescale and Jungo’s combined solution bundles OpenRG and OpenSMB software with Freescale’s MPC8272 Application Development System (ADS).

"Freescale’s leadership in the processor market, combined with Jungo’s feature-rich software, allows our customers to introduce a wide range of best-in-class networking devices, broadband routers and gateways,” said Udi Yuhjtman, Jungo’s vice president of business development. "Our relationship with Freescale represents our commitment to introduce to market highly integrated and complete hardware and software platforms to help our customers, OEMs, ODMs and telcos get to market fast.”

The bundled solutions are designed to shorten development cycles and accelerate time-to-market for customer premises equipment (CPE) developed around the PowerQUICC architecture and Jungo’s software platforms. Target applications include smart residential gateways, DSL/cable routers, integrated access devices (IADs), wireless access points, voice gateways, VPN routers, home storage routers, office-in-a box and other CPE/ SOHO and SMB networking products.

"The residential gateway market is seeing significant growth, driven heavily by telco deployments," says In-Stat analyst Joyce Putscher. "We see this market approaching 30 million gateways in 2009." 

“Explosive growth in broadband and triple-play services is driving strong demand for residential and business gateway products, and our customers look to us for fast time-to-market solutions,” said Lynelle McKay, vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Digital Systems Division. “Partnering with Jungo puts market-leading evaluation and development tools based on PowerQUICC architecture and OpenRG and OpenSMB software platforms into the hands of gateway developers—fast!”

About the MPC8272 Application Development System (ADS)

Freescale’s MPC8272ADS system provides a comprehensive evaluation platform for MPC8272 family processors. The MPC8272ADS board features 64MB of SDRAM attached to a 60x bus and an 8MB program flash SIMM supporting up to 32MB. On-board interfaces include JTAG/COP, Dual UART, USB 1.1, two 100/10-Base-T Fast Ethernets, and a 155 Mbps ATM UNI with optical interface. Using ADS on-board resources and a debugger, developers can download and run code, set breakpoints, display memory registers and connect proprietary hardware through expansion connectors. The resulting code can be used in a wide range of PowerQUICC II processor-based systems.

About the MPC8272 PowerQUICC II Family

Freescale’s MPC8272 processor family offers exceptional integration with features and interfaces optimized for cost-sensitive system designs. MPC8272 family devices incorporate the embedded PowerPC 603e core in speeds of 266MHz, 300MHz and 400MHz, with bus speeds up to 133MHz. The devices also feature a 266MHz, 32-bit RISC-based Communications Processor Module (CPM) to handle communications protocol acceleration and termination. Freescale’s integrated security engine supports DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1, AES and ARC-4 encryption algorithms, as well as a Public Key accelerator and on-chip Random Number Generator. MPC8272 family devices with integrated security include the MPC8272 and the MPC8248; the MPC8271 and MPC8247 are available for applications that do not require encryption acceleration. For more details, see the MPC8272 product page at www.freescale.com/powerquicc.

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Ruth Ruiz
Freescale Semiconductor
(480) 814-4897
ruth.ruiz@freescale.com