Morpho Technologies Expands Technical Advisory Board; University of Michigan Professor Joins Morpho Technologies Technical Advisory Board

Business Wire, July 11, 2005

IRVINE, Calif. -- Morpho Technologies, the leader in design and development of ultra high-performance Digital Signal Processors (DSP) and multi-mode broadband wireless solutions, today announced the addition of Dr. Trevor Mudge, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, to their Technical Advisory Board.

"I am looking forward to working with Morpho Technologies in defining the technology roadmap of the company as it seeks to advance its pioneering approach to multi-mode broadband wireless solutions," said Mudge. "There is a real demand for Digital Signal Processor solutions that can offer ultra high-processing performance and also meet the low-power requirements for mobile terminals. I'm pleased to be working with a company that is leading this effort."

Dr. Mudge brings nearly 30 years of experience at the University of Michigan to the Technical Advisory Board at Morpho Technologies. During his tenure, Dr. Mudge has been named the first Bredt Family Professor of Engineering, an endowed chair created to recognize the teaching and scholarship of a distinguished faculty member at the college. For ten years, Dr. Mudge was the director of the Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory, a group of a dozen faculty and 80 graduate students. He has authored many papers in the areas of computer architecture, programming languages, VLSI design and computer vision. Additionally, Dr. Mudge has chaired 33 theses in these research areas.

"We are very excited to have Trevor join our team," said John Rayfield, CEO of Morpho Technologies. "His background and expertise in system architecture design for low power are an excellent fit with our drive to offer the world's most advanced multi-mode broadband wireless platform solutions for mobile terminals."

Dr. Mudge is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institution for Electronic Engineers and the British Computer Society, and has won numerous awards for both his teaching and scholarship. Dr. Mudge received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1977.

Dr. Mudge will be joining Morpho Technologies current advisory board members:

--  Fadi Kurdahi, PhD, EE, Chief Scientist:

        --  Co-founded Morpho Technologies in 2000. Professor of
            electrical & computer engineering, University of
            California, Irvine, with 12 years of experience in VLSI &
            CAD design

    --  Nader Bagherzadeh, PhD, EE in CpE, Advisor:

        --  Co-founded Morpho Technologies in 2000. Professor and
            former department chair of electrical engineering and
            computer science at University of California, Irvine

About Morpho Technologies

Morpho Technologies designs power-efficient, high-performance, reconfigurable digital signal processor (DSP) cores and multi-mode broadband wireless solutions. These solutions are based on the company's proprietary DSP architecture coupled with optimized applications software, and sophisticated development, simulation and design tools. Morpho Technologies supports the drive towards seamless connectivity that enables radio devices to switch from one air interface standard (AIS) to another and is committed to delivering technology designed around software defined radio technology (SDR) that will enable reconfigurable system architectures for wireless networks. For more information, please visit www.morphotech.com. Founded in 2000, Morpho Technologies is headquartered in Irvine, Calif.