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To: Vitas who wrote (6432)	2/24/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Diamond Jim	Respond to of 21876

FEB 23, 1999, M2 Communications - Cannes, France -- Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group today announced the availability of its Sceptre@ 3 hardware and software communications solution for Phase 2+ GSM and Third Generation (3G) UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile phones. The central element in Sceptre 3 is the widely acclaimed DSP16000-based core - proven for optimum balance of performance, code density and low power consumption in mobile applications. Sceptre 3 uses a modular design approach. Its scalable architecture enables customers to choose from a high degree of hardware and software options to suit their design brief - whether a basic handset or highly featured multimedia wireless terminal. "The flexibility gained from this modular approach will allow our customers to pick and choose the technology ingredients that best suit their budget, their design and their time-to-market," said Greg Ellard, director of Lucent's wireless group, Ascot, UK. The Sceptre 3 solution also uses the industry standard ARM7TDMI microcontroller core. For developing the terminal manufacturers' own microcontroller software, the ARM7 microcontroller is supported by a full set of Lucent-supplied ARM and third- party tools. Sceptre 3 provides on-chip, full-speed FlashDSP for prototyping DSP ROM (Read Only Memory) code. Lucent's FlashDSP is sufficiently dense to allow the silicon to fit into production packaging. As a result, development silicon can be used all the way through to FTA (Full Type Approval) and pre-production, as it performs identically to production silicon. Once proven, the DSP ROM code can be easily migrated from Flash to ROM for production volumes, enabling faster time-to-market. Lucent's LuXWORKS integrated graphical DSP software development environment supports Sceptre 3. This provides real-time debugging specifically designed for immediate diagnosis during development and field trials, thereby avoiding the normal lengthy datalogging and analysis cycle and accelerating time-to- market still further. Lucent has addressed prototyping issues with Sceptre 3 by offering a baseband platform with the flexibility and customisability of an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit), design approach and the design economy, low risk, and time-to-market advantages of standard products. Customer-specific circuitry can be developed using FPGAs provided on the development platform and implemented via an on-chip ASIC area of up to 250K gates. Using laser prototyping, based on Lucent's partnership with ChipExpress, ASICs can be produced in a couple of days and be production-ready in weeks - again drastically reducing the time-to-market. Sceptre 3 is supported by Lucent DSP software which combines proven software and new Phase 2+ software that incorporates features such as multi-slotting for HSCSD (high-speed circuit switched data), and GPRS (general packet radio service). Other capabilities include hands-free operation, voice tricoder (Half Rate/Full Rate/Enhanced Full Rate) and AMR (Adaptive Multi Rate). Sceptre 3's DSP software is designed as a complete modular solution, allowing the customer to develop their own software modules for use in any combination with those from Lucent. Microcontroller software for both protocol stack and man-machine interface (MMI) is available from Lucent's Optimay* subsidiary. This consists of a phase 2 protocol stack including many of the most popular phase 2+ features such as GPRS and SIM (Single In-line Memory) module toolkit, MMI and MMI development tools for user- customisation and test bench software. Sceptre 3 highlights: * Rapid time-to-market for phase 2+ GPRS features * Flexible and scalable technology platform * Modular design for easy Internet Protocol integration and customisation * Real time debug system * Complete offering of hardware, software and development environment * Tied to GSM Phase 2+ and 3G timeframes * Rapid prototyping * Full complement of system tools Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its web site at lucent.com Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. More information about the Microelectronics Group's business is available from its web site at www.lucent.com/micro Optimay GmbH is the Munich, Germany-based subsidiary of Lucent Technologies. Optimay specialises in the development of software products and services for GSM terminals. Lucent acquired Optimay in April 1998. The Optimay web site is at www.optimay.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: Vitas who wrote (6432)	2/24/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Hi Vitas, I hope you are pleased of being out of LU as of yesterday. Wrote LUOA at $4.5 and LUCB at $4 today premium to collect if LU trades between 105 to 110 until expiration, of $850 per contract. Delta is neutral (0.44 and 0.41 or around 7/16 per option, and 7 day Theta around 0.77 and 0.88 or apx.1/8 per option /day) Implied volatility around 48% Trade will run into losses if LU dips below $97 or rises above $118 but from a practical matter will close before expiration. Or in other words my risk is that I will be short LU at $118.5 or long at $96.5 if the stok breaches those ranges. The positive point is that I am make around $165/7 per contract pair, for each day that passes including weekends <GG>. Or $165/day on seven contracts. BWDIK Haim