GAIO Support Package Now Available for Freescale Automotive Microcontrollers; Next-Generation Simulation Development Environment Designed to Help Electronic Control Unit Developers Ensure Higher Quality

TOKYO--Sept. 7, 2005--A support package based on GAIO TECHNOLOGY's No.1 System Simulator is now available for Freescale Semiconductor's MPC5500 family of high-performance automotive microcontrollers containing PowerPC(R) cores.

The support package is designed to allow precise software development with maximized MPC5500 processor functionality for complex signal processing applications, such as high-performance engine control.

Freescale's MPC5500 family is a cost-effective embedded automotive microcontroller. It integrates up to 2MB of flash memory with a 32-bit PowerPC core, as well as peripherals such as enhanced time processing unit (eTPU) specifically designed for timing control in a single chip. The MPC5500 allows implementation of more precise control for timing based upon time or crank angle of the engine application, by utilizing the eTPU independent of the main microprocessor.

GAIO's No.1 System Simulator is a next-generation simulation development environment for validating embedded systems and improving software reliability. It contains GAIO's System Component Synthesizer application to automatically generate peripheral hardware simulation models, which traditionally have required C/C++ programming. The synthesizer uses a simple graphical user interface (GUI) based configuration for the virtual hardware part library provided by GAIO. It can improve embedded software quality by verifying the system earlier in the development phase.

"Freescale's microcontrollers, together with GAIO's No.1 System Simulator, will address growing software code and help ensure higher quality when building a system during electronic control unit (ECU) development," said Yoshio Sekiguchi, general manager of Freescale's Japan automotive business. "Using this support package will also help ECU designers reduce time to market and development risks."

To learn more about Freescale's automotive products, visit http://www.freescale.com/files/pr/gaio.html.

About Freescale Technology Forum Japan

Scheduled on Sept. 8 at the Meguro Gajoen in Tokyo, this forum will provide a valuable opportunity to learn about new and emerging semiconductor solutions. Sessions will offer perspectives on Freescale's future direction, strategies, roadmaps and the next generation of products and services. At the forum, GAIO will showcase its No.1 System Simulator, and a GAIO representative will present a breakout session as part of the technical program. To learn more, visit www.freescale.com/ftf.

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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD). www.freescale.com

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