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To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (9916)	12/4/2001 9:06:08 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

eedesign.com ...EEdesign: It sounds like the emulator helped you with hardware/software co-development. Apostol: Most definitely. We actually booted the VxWorks operating system and had applications running in real time. That in itself was a good test of whether or not the asynchronous interfaces were designed correctly. Another benefit is that the software team was actually part of the ASIC verification team. Because of the way we generated vectors, they were able to come in and start the low level diagnostics, and slowly build up to the applications. ......

To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (9916)	12/9/2001 4:22:56 PM
From: w2j2	Respond to of 10309

I think the basic issue with this stock is that its total target market was only $866 million in 2000. Wind had the largest share of that revenue, 31%. Message 16739309. Wind can not grow much faster than its target market. How fast will the market grow? 37% into the boom year of 2000.... How much into 2002 and beyond? Given that Wind is a great company, how fast is the embedded software market going to grow? Does Wind have any control over that? Not much. Unless they give away their software for free... wj