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Mission Statement

MathStar's mission is to be the leader in Field Programmable Object Arrays, the next-generation of high performance programmable logic solutions, through excellence in design, manufacturing, marketing and customer support.

About MathStar

MathStar is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets a new class of programmable logic chips called "Field Programmable Object Arrays," or FPOAs. FPOAs are high-performance, reprogrammable integrated circuits that process logic functions at a clock rate up to 1 GHz. MathStar's FPOA offers up to four times the performance of commercially available FPGAs.

MathStar's early research into the semiconductor industry showed that customers would benefit from a high-performance alternative to field programmable gate arrays in high-performance, data-intensive applications. To address these market needs, MathStar developed the industry's first Field Programmable Object Array and is engaged with customers today.

Founded in April 1997 by communications industry veteran Douglas M. Pihl, MathStar is a publicly held company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market (MATH). MathStar has over 75 employees and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with sales offices throughout North America and Europe.

About the FPOA

An FPOA consists of silicon objects arranged in an internal grid pattern, memory and input/outputs. The object grid is overlaid with a patented, high-speed interconnect system creating the silicon object array. This array of objects and interconnect matrix is programmed to execute unique customer applications. FPOAs provide a new way of implementing high-performance algorithmic functions in silicon integrated circuits. They are not programmed at the gate level but instead are programmed at the silicon object level, which reduces their development time and cost as compared to other methods of chip design. We believe that FPOAs are ideally suited to implement high-performance algorithmic functions in many video & image processing, machine vision, medical imaging, test & measurement and military/aerospace applications.

We are developing a library of different silicon object types that can be mixed and matched in the array in any pattern. Presently, our object types include arithmetic logic unit, truth table, register file and a multiply/accumulate unit. Each of these objects can be programmed to perform a number of different functions, thus enabling this relatively small number of object types to satisfy a range of applications. Each of the object types shares a common interface to the interconnect system. This interface allows us to quickly and easily add object types into the array and rearrange the objects within the array, to create new chips optimized for particular applications and algorithms. We plan to enhance the existing set of objects and develop new object types to continuously expand served markets.

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