Silicon Laboratories Announces Industry's Smallest Footprint Embedded

    Business Editors/Technology Writers

    AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB) today announced the industry's most integrated embedded modem solution using the company's fourth generation silicon direct access arrangement (DAA) technology in its ISOmodem(R) products. The ISOmodem family now reduces the number of components and board space by an additional 30 percent compared to competing solutions. The new ISOmodem products utilize Silicon Laboratories' Si3008 line-side DAA, available in a small 8-pin package, in combination with a reduced pin-count package system-side device to provide a complete modem solution in a tiny footprint. The flexibility and minimal external components required makes these devices ideal for embedded modem applications such as set-top boxes, electronic point-of-sale terminals, digital video recorders and digital televisions.
    The ISOmodem products are full-featured embedded modems complete with a simple UART interface, integrated ROM, RAM, digital signal processor (DSP) and AT command support ranging in speeds from 2.4 to 56 kbps. Compliant with FCC and additional country standards, ISOmodem solutions based on the Si3008 silicon DAA vastly simplify design and reduce the total solution cost for embedded modems.
    "Silicon Laboratories is the leader in modem technology innovation," said Dave Bresemann, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "By further decreasing the footprint of embedded modems, we are enabling customers to more easily add connectivity to their applications and bring their products to market more quickly, drastically simplifying their design."
    The ISOmodem embedded modems minimize processor and software resources and decrease development efforts, enabling rapid and simple modem integration. With more than 100 issued or pending patents related to this technology, Silicon Laboratories' modem solutions are field proven to meet global PTT, emissions, immunity and safety compliance with the industry's highest surge performance, lowest power dissipation and superior transformerless DAA technology.

    Pricing and Availability

    Samples of the new Si3008 line-side device and reduced pin count system-side device are available now with full production in the second quarter of 2005. Pricing for the ISOmodem product family begins at $6.48 in 10K quantities. Silicon Laboratories' products are available in lead-free, environmentally friendly packages.

    Silicon Laboratories Inc.

    Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit www.silabs.com.

    Cautionary Language

    This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Silicon Laboratories believes that it is important to communicate the company's future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in the future that Silicon Laboratories is not able to accurately predict or control. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to Silicon Laboratories' recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-Q filed October 25, 2004.

    Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories, ISOmodem and the Silicon Laboratories logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

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CONTACT: Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin Lindsey Starnes, 512-532-5756 lindsey.starnes@silabs.com

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