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Interra Systems Inc.
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Interra introduces H264 Analyzer - A comprehensive analysis tool

H264 Analyzer speeds audio/video-based development, analysis, and interoperability testing

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 14, 2004
Interra Systems, Inc., the leading provider of customizable technology components and services, today announced the H264 Analyzer-a new comprehensive analysis and compliance tool for hardware engineers and software developers creating high volume consumer products or applications, such as DVB-H mobile phones, broadband DSL equipment, streaming media applications for the semiconductor and consumer electronics segments

Interra's H264 Analyzer analyzes a range of audio/video streams and verifies them for compliance with several digital media standards including H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC), MPEG-2 Transport, MPEG-4 Video, MP4, 3GPP, AAC Audio, and AMR. These standards are very important for next and current generation audio/ video compression technologies.

"Our H264 Analyzer users can quickly verify, debug, and troubleshoot standards and conformance-related problems in their product or application before introducing it into the market. Design and evaluation engineers in the semiconductor and consumer electronics business, professional video equipment manufacturers, video network operators, mobile phone equipment manufacturers and operators will find the H264 Analyzer a very useful tool." said Sunil Jain, CEO, Interra Systems. Interra's H264 Analyzer performs syntax and conformance checks on the selected stream. During analysis, users may start navigating the video data using the graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI will enable users, get a detailed microscopic view into the coding of the stream.

"System developers, system integrators, encoder developers, system engineers, or evaluators will find the H264 Analyzer a great help when developing solutions for network monitoring, video streaming, broadcasting applications, or codecs. We believe our H.264 Analyzer will be well received in the market for its comprehensive feature set, 'ease of use' and robustness. We also offer an SDK option; we believe the SDK option will be very useful to companies that offer products in the test & measurement space," added Ashish Basu, Vice President, Sales & Business Development at Interra Systems.

Key Features of Interra's H264 Analyzer

• Supports the H.264, MPEG-2 Transport, MPEG-4 Video, MP4, and the AAC Audio standards
• Provides the facility to store analyzed data for future reference
• Provides powerful debug capabilities to quickly locate problem areas
• Provides an easy to use graphical user interface and a command line interface for batch processing
• Provides easy forward and backward navigation options to aid quick location of error points
• Reports messages also in the XML format

Availability
Interra's H264 Analyzer will be available immediately on the PC platform running Windows 2000 or XP. The H264 Analyzer SDK, which can easily be integrated into customer applications will be available in Q4 2004. For more specific availability and pricing information in your territory you may contact Ashish Basu at Interra Systems (). You may also contact Interra's partners Innotech Corporation (www.innotech.co.jp), Terasic Technologies www.terasic.com), Answer Systems (www.answer-systems.com) or Mindcrea (www.mindcrea.com)

About Interra Systems
Interra Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of highly flexible and adaptive solutions for accelerating the development of digital video products, memory, ASIC, SoC and system designs. Interra's offerings include digital video IPs, a memory development system, EDA tool front-ends, which includes a RTL Synthesis, VHDL and Verilog analyzers and test suites. Interra offers a breadth of services for developing Digital Video applications and DSP solutions, and for Electronic and Memory Design Automation. Customers have found significant strategic value in using solutions from Interra Systems. For more information visit Interra's website atwww.interrasystems.com.