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June 10, 2009

Mitrionics Announces Mitrion SDK Version 2.0

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Mitrion Version 2.0 boosts parallel programming productivity and enables high performance application development systems

LOS GATOS, Calif., June 10 -- Mitrionics, Inc., the technology leader in FPGA based hybrid computing, today announced Version 2.0 of the Mitrion Software Development Kit (SDK), a free C-family parallel programming language development environment, and the Mitrion Virtual Processor (MVP). These combined offerings are focused on dramatically increasing productivity among application developers working with parallel programming of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate computing applications. The Mitrion SDK version 2.0 can be downloaded for free at www.mitrionics.com.

Version 2.0's new productivity features significantly improves compilation speed, introduces new advanced debugging tools, and provides seamless integration with the Mitrionics' Hybrid Computing Development (HPC) Systems.

In particular the MVP 2.0 enables commercial enterprises, academic institutions and government labs to easily program reconfigurable FPGA accelerated systems without using C-to-gates tools or hardware development languages (HDLs) like VHDL or Verilog. The MVP is a design for a highly configurable hardware execution engine, which can run parallel software programs while maintaining the exceptional performance of FPGAs.

"Today, those interested in exploring the benefits of FPGA acceleration need solutions that help them get past the parallel programming hurdles associated with showing real performance gains for relevant applications, "said Dr.Earl Joseph, vice chairman of programs at IDC. "The Mitrionics approach is the only solution that combines a novel processor architecture with an integrated software stack. Mitrion 2.0 is a welcomed advancement to those in the technical computing market seeking additional acceleration to solve extremely challenging processing problems."

Benefits for Key Application Areas

The Mitrion SDK 2.0 is optimized for the most demanding applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as genome informatics, proteomics, Internet and database search, and business process optimization challenges. Accelerated applications running on the virtual processor increase application performance by 10x to100x versus non-accelerated systems while consuming ninety percent less power.

"There's been an increased demand for our FPGA-based hybrid computing platforms and along with that, our customer base has become increasingly demanding," said Mike Calise, executive vice president and US general manager of Mitrionics. "These offerings break new ground for user productivity and open a far broader market for adoption of FPGA-based high-performance computing."

Mitrion SDK 2.0

The Mitrion SDK is a complete development environment for accelerating applications while making it easy for programmers to learn how to write software that takes advantage of the parallelism available with the Mitrion Virtual Processor. The SDK includes a compiler and graphical code-simulator that simplifies finding programming errors, performance bottlenecks and inefficient code. The SDK supports Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X and can be downloaded free from www.mitrionics.com.

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