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Exar Exhibits at the electronicaUSA and Embedded Systems Conference

Posted on: Monday, 29 March 2004, 06:00 CST

FREMONT, Calif., March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Exar Corporation , a leading provider of high-performance, mixed-signal silicon solutions for the worldwide communications infrastructure today announced it will be presenting its Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitters (UARTs) portfolio at the 2004 electronicaUSA/Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, California. These embedded semiconductor solutions will be showcased on March 31, 2004 in the Nu Horizons booth (# 826-S), an Exar distribution partner.

Exar, the UART market leader, offers the industry's broadest line-up of one, two, four, and eight-channel solutions that can deliver an immediate competitive advantage to customers with compressed time-to-market demands. Exar's portfolio is compatible with industry standard 16550 and provides a migration path enabling customers to quickly implement new features. With features, such as, FIFO level triggers and counters, automatic flow control, and automatic RS-485 half-duplex control output, Exar's UART solutions reduce CPU overhead while simultaneously increasing data throughput for a variety of embedded applications including remote access, data collection, GPS, industrial automation, Point-of-sale (POS), and handheld/mobile. Exar's PCI UART solutions support CompactPCI, PC/104, PC/104+, VME, PMC and Universal PCI bus configurations.

"Exar looks forward to teaming with Nu Horizons at the electronicaUSA/Embedded Systems Conference," said Susan Hardman, vice president and general manager of the Interface Products Division." Exar will be highlighting its unique Universal PCI UARTs at the show. Exar is the only supplier offering PCI UARTs that support both 3.3V and 5.0V operation giving users maximum flexibility."

About Exar

Exar Corporation designs, develops and markets high-performance, analog and mixed-signal silicon solutions for the worldwide communications infrastructure. Leveraging its industry-proven analog design expertise, system-level knowledge and standard CMOS process technologies, Exar provides OEMs innovative, highly integrated ICs that facilitate the transport and aggregation of signals in access, metro and wide area networks. The Company's physical layer silicon solutions address transmission standards such as T/E carrier, ATM and SONET. The Company also provides one of the industry's most comprehensive families of serial communications solutions. Within this product offering, the low voltage and multi-channel universal asynchronous receiver transmitters are particularly well suited to support high data rate and increasing data transfer efficiency requirements for various industrial, telecom and computer server applications. Also, the Company offers a portfolio of clock generation and clock distribution devices for a wide range of communications systems. In addition, the Company designs, develops and markets IC products that address select applications for the video and imaging markets. The Company is based in Fremont, CA, had fiscal 2003 revenues of $67 million, and employs approximately 265 people worldwide. For more information about Exar visit http://www.exar.com/.

Exar Corporation

CONTACT: Greg Kaufman, Marketing Communications of Exar Corporation,+1-510-668-7000

Web site: http://www.exar.com/

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