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To: Frank Ferrari who wrote (2234)	2/16/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: nord	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4400

Well Look at this. Wonder what is next? Analog Devices Acquires White Mountain DSP and Edinburgh Portable Compilers NORWOOD, Mass., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI)announced today the company has signed definitive agreements to purchase WhiteMountain DSP, Inc. of Nashua, New Hampshire and Edinburgh Portable Compilers(EPC) of Edinburgh, Scotland. White Mountain DSP is the world's leading supplier of emulators for digital signal processors (DSP). EPC specializes insoftware compilers for high performance, embedded applications. Compilers and emulators are fundamental development tools that customers need to design with DSPs and partners need to develop advanced, complementary tools for DSPs. The acquisition of these two companies greatly enhances ADI's portfolio by integrating the company's DSP architecture and IC design core competencies with White Mountain DSP's and EPC's development tools corecompetencies. "We are investing in the critical tools our customers and third party partners need to develop ADI DSP-based systems," said Jerald G. Fishman,President and CEO, Analog Devices, Inc. "These acquisitions will help the DSPdeveloper community to not only solve difficult design challenges but alsobring ADI DSP-based products to market faster," Fishman said. White Mountain DSP and EPC are privately held companies that ADI will acquire through a combination of cash and stock. White Mountain DSP willremain in New Hampshire and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of ADI. EPC will remain in Scotland and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of ADI. Analog Devices is a leading supplier of digital signal processing solutions, including customized, mixed-signal DSPs, general-purpose DSPs, suchas the SHARC(R) family, and embedded DSP solutions. ADI's DSP technologypowers products from more than 10,000 customers worldwide, and is supported bymore than 300 third-party development tools. (http://analog.com/dsp) About White Mountain DSP, Inc. White Mountain DSP is a privately held company located in Nashua, New Hampshire and founded in 1993. The company is the world's leading supplier ofemulators, development boards and debugging software for DSPs. White Mountain DSP is currently a third party tools supplier for Texas Instruments' as wellas Analog Devices' DSPs. Emulators help designers to develop and optimize DSP systems, shortening product development cycles. Emulators are critical to simplifying the design challenge when users a Edinburgh Portable Compilers is a privately held company located in Edinburgh, Scotland and established in 1984. The company develops highperformance C/C++ and Fortran language compilers for advanced microprocessorarchitectures. Recognized as a center of excellence for compiler technology,EPC is committed to developing compilers and related tools for Intel's forthcoming Merced(TM) processor, in addition to supporting EPC's currentproducts for IA-32, PowerPC(R), ADI's SHARC(R) and other architectures. EPC has over 300 staff years experience developing compilers. Compilers arebecoming increasingly popular with DSP designers. EPC's technology will becritical to simplifying the design challenge for users of ADI's most advancedDSP architectures, including the recently announced TigerSHARC(TM)architecture. About Analog Devices With fiscal 1998 sales of $1.23 billion, Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analogand digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood,Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 7,100 people worldwide andhas manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan. SHARC is a registered trademark and TigerSHARC is a trademark of AnalogDevices, Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. SOURCE Analog Devices, Inc. CO: Analog Devices, Inc.; White Mountain DSP, Inc.; Edinburgh Portable Compilers ST: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Scotland IN: CPR MLM SU: TNM 02/16/99 19:48 EST prnewswire.com White Mountain produces emulators which is not competitive, but synergistic, with Spectrum. Spectrum has a strong relationship with both compamies Regards Norden