Abilis Systems Announces Major Milestone Towards the Introduction of a Single-Chip Programmable Mobile TV Solution - From Antenna to Digital Bit Stream

Abilis Systems Announces Major Milestone Towards the Introduction of a Single-Chip Programmable Mobile TV Solution - From Antenna to Digital Bit Stream

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 22/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abilis Systems, a Kudelski Group (SWX: KUD) company, announced
today its intention of becoming a major player of the next generation chips
for the mobile digital TV market with the availability of samples of its
reprogrammable OFDM demodulator. This revolutionary solution is part of
global receiver architecture - from antenna to digital TV bit stream -
designed specifically for mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDA or laptops
or portable media players. This major milestone is the final step leading to
the introduction of the world's first multi-standard, programmable Mobile TV
single-chip solution offering the power, size and cost advantages of a
leading edge 90nm RFCMOS manufacturing process.

The OFDM demodulator is based on a scalable, multi-core
architecture dedicated to mobile applications, offering a unique combination
of DSP programming flexibility and power efficiency of hardware accelerators.
The architecture of the demodulator supports the various and emerging OFDM
standards for Digital Mobile TV and broadband communication such as WiFi and
WiMAX. An innovative and global approach to OFDM signal demodulation has
enabled Abilis Systems to support the emerging multi-mode mobile terminal and
the convergence of wireless communication and multimedia functionality.

"The potential of our programmable demodulator technology is
tremendous and these samples clearly demonstrate the performance of our
reprogrammable solution. We now have a solid foundation to build a large
product family to support this important and growing market which will exceed
the 100 million users barrier by 2009" said Yves Mathys, Abilis Systems CEO.
"With the strategic support of the Kudelski Group, we are developing the
technical and commercial synergies with the world leader of conditional
access systems to offer highly secure and full-featured solutions to mobile
operators. "

Abilis Systems' strategy is to be the first to introduce a
single chip solution supporting European DVB-T and DVB-H standards, the most
widespread mobile digital TV standards, which will be quickly followed by a
triple-mode product adding T-DMB support.

Please visit Abilis Systems at KOBA 2006 on ACETEL stand 610, at the COEX
International Center in Seoul, Korea.

About Abilis Systems

Abilis Systems (www.abiliss.com) is a semiconductor fabless
company, founded in 2004 by a team of former Motorola SPS employees. Abilis
develops single chip CMOS solutions for OFDM-based radio communication
standards, including mobile TV receivers and high speed internet access
transceivers. In 2005, Abilis became part of the Kudelski Group ,and actively
cooperates with Nagravision to propose more secure and fully featured
conditional access solutions to mobile TV operators.

Contact : Eric Gouze - Head of Business Development
tel : +41-22-706-1930
mail : eric.gouze@abiliss.com

Abilis Systems
18 chemin des Aulx
1228 Plan-les-Ouates/Geneva
Switzerland
+41-22-706-1930

About the Kudelski Group

The Kudelski Group (www.nagra.com) is a world leader in digital security.
Its technologies are used in a wide range of applications requiring access
control and rights management, whether for securing transfer of information
(digital television, broadband Internet, video-on-demand, interactive
applications, etc.) or to control and manage access of people or vehicles to
sites and events. The Kudelski Group is headquartered in
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, and its stock is listed on the Swiss
Market Index.

Contact : Ivan Schnider, Marketing & Communications Manager,
tel. +41-21-732-07-38.
mail : ivan.schnider@nagra.com

Glossary :

OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, modulation scheme
widely used in broadband wireless standards such as DAB, DVB, ADSL, WLAN,
WiMAX, UWB.

DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting organization for the global delivery of
digital television and data services (www.dvb.org). DVB-T is the terrestrial
standard while DVB-H is the handheld extension.

T-DMB: Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcast standard (T-DMB), Korean
Mobile Digital TV standards based on the European Digital Audio Broadcast
(DAB) standard.

Source: Abilis Systems

Contact : Eric Gouze - Head of Business Development, tel : +41-22-706-1930, mail : eric.gouze@abiliss.com; Abilis Systems, 18 chemin des Aulx, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates/Geneva, Switzerland, +41-22-706-1930

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