Press Release: Korg Uses Jungo's USB Stack

ANCONA, Italy and SAN JOSE, Calif -- February 6th, 2006

Korg Italy S.P.A., a leading manufacturer of innovative musical instruments, and Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of embedded USB software solutions, today announced that Jungo’s USBware Host stack and Mass Storage Class Driver has been successfully integrated into Korg’s new line of electronic arranger keyboards. Fully USB 2.0 compliant, Jungo’s USBware offers a high-quality, production ready, and fully-featured Host/Device/On-The-Go implementation of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard protocols and class drivers.

"Jungo’s complete and ready-made USB Host and Mass Storage class driver solution allowed us to quickly incorporate standard USB within our products, offering our musician’s more flexibility than ever to connect to their favorite USB storage device for data exchange or even CD-mastering,” said Jurgen Schmitz, R&D manager with Korg’s Italian subsidiary. "Jungo’s OS agnostic and hardware independent USB implementation enabled us to integrate the stack in our proprietary OS driven platform and get the next version of our products to the market quickly."

"Jungo's USBware offers a high-quality and small footprint embedded USB software protocol stacks, designed specifically for the embedded market, allowing OEMs to easily incorporate standard USB connectivity in their designs”, said Omry Ben David, Marketing Manager for Jungo's Software Tools Division. "Korg Italy S.p.A. has selected Jungo to enable USB connectivity in their keyboards, further reinforcing Jungo’s position as a market leader in USB software”.

With over 3 billion devices using standard USB connectivity, USB has emerged as the de-facto standard for connecting host PCs and USB peripherals. Revolutionizing the PC world, USB host capabilities have by now migrated to the embedded arena penetrating Set-Top Boxes, Mobile Phones, Digital Cameras, Medical Devices and other digital products such as Korg’s electronic keyboards. The USB seamless, high-speed, driver-less interface has enabled these embedded hosts to communicate directly with peripherals such as flash memory applications, HID devices and portable electronic equipment.

Korg’s new line of electronic arranger keyboards will be presented to the public later this year.

Jungo will showcase its USBware software solution at the upcoming Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, February 14-16, Hall 10.0 Stand 118 and at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA April 3-7, Booth 134.