News Release

　　　　　　　　　　　

Tokyo, Japan, March 13, 2008

Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation

Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation (Yokogawa Digital) and EXARTECH International Corp. (Exartech) announced that they have reached an agreement on the distribution of Yokogawa Digital’s ICE product. Exartech starts to distribute “advicePRO”, which is a flagship ICE product produced by Yokogawa Digital. In addition, with Yokogawa Digital’s cooperation, Exartech will also work on marketing activities and provide the product support for its local users.

At first, Exartech will sell and support “advicePRO ZX640/OVS” for ARM7, 9, and 11, and “advicePRO ZT800/OVS” for TX49/H2, TX49/H3, TX49/H4, and TX49/L3. Both products are already released and garner a good reputation in Japan and overseas. The other models that support a variety of cores are scheduled to be introduced to Taiwan market subsequently.

Main functional features of advicePRO

• Speed up various commands by optimization of JTAG communication
• Speedy download to flash memory
• Support multi-core devices
• Support RTOS (Real Time OS) such as Nucleus and Linux
• Ethernet-100Base-TX or USB2.0 connection with PC
• Debugger software, “microVIEW-PLUS”, which works best with “advicePRO”, is bundled

“The development environments we provide have been in high demand from overseas markets for the last few years, and particularly, we vigorously participate in markets in Asia,” said Makoto Ishiwata, president at Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation. “In response to the market growth in overseas, we beef up overseas sales forces and support engineers, and put more effort into translating its products and manuals into English.” “We have found Exartech as a good partner with which we can create a cooperative relationship in Taiwan market to provide better service, and will be able to support our customers’ development environments.”

“Exartech was established in 1985, and has been one of the most renowned companies in the area of telecommunication. In the earlier era, we were one of the authorized agents of AT&T in Taiwan,” said James Liang, general manager at EXARTECH International Corp. “Along with our telecom background, we have long dealt with RTOS, compilers, and IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used in the embedded development arena, thus know the market very well.” “With our ample experience in this era, we are able to provide good support to our users. We believe that the cooperation between the two will generate a synergy and deliver best products to Taiwanese users.”

About advicePRO

Since Yokogawa Digital introduced its first ICE product, “advice” in 1988, it has continued to provide its debug environments and solutions to the embedded market. “advicePRO” is the fourth generation of advice series. “advicePRO” takes advantage of high performance and scalability of “advicePLUS” and cost effectiveness of “advicePOCKET”. This product allows developers to conduct the debug functions including execution control and memory download without difficulty and stress.

About Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation

Yokogawa Digital Compute Corporation (Yokogawa Digital) has long engaged in the embedded development business including the design and development of micro computers and peripheral systems. It particularly has a strong competitive advantage in the area of ICE (In-Circuit Emulator), and its ICE products are widely accepted and used in the state-of-the-art development projects such as mobile phones, digital consumer products, automotive, and industrial instruments. The products are highly valued not only in Japan but also overseas markets, and it has sales channels worldwide including the United States, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Europe. Furthermore, Yokogawa Digital also focuses on providing various platforms such as T-Engine board, development starter kit for Windows Embedded CE, and the tool and consultation service for process improvement of embedded development project. Taking advantage of its in-depth knowledge and wealth of experience, Yokogawa Digital can offer ideal development environments.

English website http://www.yokogawa-digital.com/en/

Japanese website http://www.yokogawa-digital.com/

About EXARTECH International Corp.

Exartech International Corp. is a leading supplier of advanced telecommunication products for both broadband and wireless services. The releasing products in the global market include Pair Gain, FOM and NGDLC. Exartech’s further business strength is embedded system software and development tools. It offers a complete embedded solution to meet the customer’s needs, and provides local support to ensure customer’s time to market requirement. Exartech’s telecommunication background benefits its embedded system business. With its long experience in the embedded system market, Exartech will continue look for the best embedded solutions for the industry, and will always target on customer’s success to meet their substantial projected growth in all kinds of embedded applications.

English website http://www.exartech.com.tw/english/index.htm

Chinese website http://www.exartech.com.tw/chinese/c.htm

Contacts

Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation

Koki Takeda

TEL: +81-42-333-6222

FAX: +81-42-352-6107

E-mail: ep-ovs@yokogawa-digital.com

EXARTECH International Corp.

CT Wu

TEL: +886-2-2657-6628

FAX: +886-2-2657-6128

E-Mail: em-info@exartech.com.tw