The acquisition of  RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a Calgary-based communications intellectual property (IP) company, by PMC-Sierra, or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, closed on Thursday, November 11, 2011. Roger Bertschmann, president of Rad3 Communications, joined PMC as Director of Digital Signal Processing (DSP). The Rad3 team also joined PMC and will continue to operate out of its Calgary office.

The acquisition includes leading-edge Forward Error Correction (FEC) and DSP technologies, as well as a very experienced team that will enhance PMC’s ability to offer innovative, high-performance storage, optical and mobile solutions.

About PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store digital content. Building on a track record of technology leadership, we are driving innovation across storage, optical and mobile networks. Our highly integrated solutions increase performance and enable next-generation services to accelerate the network transformation. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.

Calgary, Alberta, October 25, 2011 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a Calgary-based communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by PMC-Sierra, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks. The team will continue to operate out of its Calgary office.

“We’re excited for our Calgary-based team to be joining an international company of PMC’s caliber,” Roger Bertschmann, president of RAD3. “PMC’s integration and silicon expertise, combined with our leading-edge capability in the design and delivery of communications and storage IP, will enable us to drive industry-changing technologies that transform the network.”

“RAD3’s technologies and highly experienced team are a good fit with PMC,” said Brian Gerson, PMC fellow and vice president of Research and Development. “RAD3’s Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technologies will enhance PMC’s ability to offer innovative, high-performance solutions for storage, optical and mobile networks.” 

The acquisition is expected to close in November 2011, subject to customary closing conditions.

About RAD3 Communications

RAD3 is a leading supplier of communications intellectual property (IP) for new and emerging wired and wireless communication standards.  RAD3’s extensive library of IP solutions enables communication companies to rapidly design and build their products using a suite of industry proven IP.  For more information, please visit RAD3’s web site: www.rad3comm.com.

About PMC

PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store digital content. Building on a track record of technology leadership, we are driving innovation across storage, optical and mobile networks. Our highly integrated solutions increase performance and enable next-generation services to accelerate the network transformation. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.

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Calgary, Canada – April 18th, 2011 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, is pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Bates has joined the company as Chief Architect.  Dr. Bates will be responsible for advanced research and architecture development for Rad3’s growing line of FEC cores.

Dr. Bates is world class expert on the design of LDPC and other FEC decoders.  He previously founded Raithlin Semiconductor (www.raithlin.com) to focus on delivering quality algorithm development services and IP to the semiconductor industry. Prior to Raithlin, Dr. Bates was a professor at the University of Alberta’s (UofA’s) department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he was affiliated with the ICORE High Capacity Digital Communications Lab. In addition, Dr. Bates previously worked for Massana Ltd, a company specializing in the design of Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, which was subsequently acquired by Agere Inc

“The addition of Dr. Bates to Rad3’s management and technical team further strengthens our leading-edge capability in the design and delivery of high performance FEC cores.” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “As data rates increase to multi-gigabit rates the performance requirement on our FEC cores is ever increasing. Rad3 has achieved great success in licensing its FEC cores into the wired and wireless communications markets and Dr. Bates will bring invaluable experience to Rad3 for further development of these markets.”

About RAD3 Communications Inc.

RAD3 is a leading supplier of communications intellectual property (IP) for new and emerging wired and wireless communication standards.  RAD3’s extensive library of IP solutions enables communication companies to rapidly design and build their products using a suite of industry proven IP.  For more information, please visit RAD3’s web site: www.rad3comm.com.

Calgary, Canada – March 1st, 2011 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Nextwave Semiconductor, a fully owned subsidiary of Nextwave Wireless Inc..

Rad3 has acquired the assets of Nextwave Semiconductor which consists of silicon proven WiMax reference designs including Media Access Control (MAC) and OFDMA Physical Layer (PHY) software and hardware,  3GPP LTE User Equipment (UE) Layer 1 software, test equipment and various other Intellectual Property (IP) Assets.

“The acquisition of the Nextwave Semiconductor assets provides RAD3 with an incredible foundation to continue delivering its LTE and WiMax solutions.” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “Nextwave Semiconductor was one of the early technology leaders in WiMax and developed an industry leading high performance WiMax subscriber station chipset.  In addition, Nextwave’s experienced wireless team also developed LTE solutions which Rad3 will be able to capitalize on.  The assets are complementary to Rad3’s existing products and provide an excellent base to draw on when providing wireless solutions to our customers.”

About RAD3 Communications Inc.

RAD3 is a leading supplier of communications intellectual property (IP) for new and emerging wired and wireless communication standards.  RAD3’s extensive library of IP solutions enables communication companies to rapidly design and build their products using a suite of industry proven IP.  For more information, please visit RAD3’s web site: www.rad3comm.com.

CALGARY, CANADA – April 29, 2010 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the availability of a suite of Mobile WiMax Physical Layer (PHY) IP cores targeted to Subscriber Stations and Base Stations.

RAD3 is pleased to announce the availability of the following products

• A silicon proven Mobile WiMax Subscriber Station OFDMA Modem targeted to SOC’s or FPGA’s.  The detailed data sheet can be found at: http://www.rad3comm.com/uploads/Mobile_WiMax_Subscriber_Modem.pdf
• Mobile WiMax Software Defined Radio OFDMA Modem supporting both Base Station and Subscriber Station Operation.  A detailed data sheet can be found at: http://www.rad3comm.com/uploads/Mobile_WiMax_SDR_OFDMA_Modem.pdf

The Mobile WiMax Phy IP supports the following features:

• Full 802.16e-2009 and WiMax Wave 2 compliance
• Support for all WiMAX Forum™ specified channel bandwidths and data rates
• Two-Antenna STC/MIMO support including support for Matrix A/B
• Support for Category 4 HARQ with HARQ aggregation

“The addition of Mobile WiMax to our portfolio of communications products now allows RAD3 to provide the broadest range of support for wireless physical layer IP. ” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “RAD3 now fields complete solutions for LTE, Mobile WiMax and Fixed WiMax  and the IP has been successfully validated and adopted by industry leading customers."

Calgary, Canada –September 14, 2009 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced that Innodul AG, a Swiss supplier of Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) products, has chosen RAD3’s advanced Forward Error Correction (FEC) solutions for its POF product line.

Innodul licensed RAD3’s advanced FEC solutions for inclusion in its line of enterprise, industrial, home and automotive POF products. Due to its simplicity POF can carry Ethernet, USB, IEEE1394 and other protocols and is very robust against vibration, EMI, EMC, humidity, and has a wide temperature range. Innodul required a robust and high-data rate FEC solution for its products and chose RAD3, a proven provider of advanced FEC solutions for the communications industry.

“We evaluated a large number of IP companies and RAD3 came out on top.” said Guido Willi, President Innodul. RAD3’s knowledge of Forward Error Correction technologies and their ability to support both FPGA and ASIC operation at high clock speeds made them the leading candidate. In addition, the level and quality of support provided by Rad3 was excellent and allowed us to rapidly integrate their IP into our products. We look forward to working with them on future projects.”

Commenting on RAD3's success at Innodul, Roger Bertschmann, President at RAD3, said "We are very pleased to have enabled Innodul to get to market quicker with its POF products through the rapid and successful deployment of our leading edge FEC IP and we look forward to extending our working relationship further for their next phase of product developments".
About RAD3 Communications Inc.
RAD3 is a leading supplier of communications intellectual property (IP) for new and emerging wired and wireless communication standards. RAD3’s extensive library of IP solutions enables communication companies to rapidly design and build their products using a suite of industry proven IP. For more information, please visit RAD3’s web site: www.RAD3comm.com.
About Innodul AG.

Innodul is a Swiss based company focused on developing POF solutions for the enterprise, industrial, home and automotive markets. The company is registered in Switzerland and is funded by Microdul Holding (www.microdul.com) and the founders. It is a spin-out of former Philips Semiconductors/NXP and has a team of entrepreneurial business executives, researchers and scientists. For more information, please visit the Innodul’s web site: www.innodul.com.

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Calgary, Canada –May 11, 2009 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the acquisition of the LDPC IP assets of Raithlin Semiconductor Inc (Raithlin) and the addition of Dr. Stephen Bates, Raithlin’s CEO, to RAD3’s Board of Advisors.

• CMMB:  An LDPC decoder for the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcast (CMMB) standard for the Satellite Terrestrial Interactive Multi-service (STiMi)
• DVB-S2: An LDPC Decoder for the Digital Video Broadcast Satellite standard
• WiMax: An LDPC Decoder for the WiMax 802.16e standard

In addition, Raithlin’s LDPC engineering development team has joined RAD3 in order to continue the development of the LDPC decoder technology. Several new cores are expected to be launched in during the remainder of the year.

“The acquisition of the Raithlin LDPC IP and the addition of Dr. Stephen Bates to RAD3’s Board of Advisor gives RAD3 world-class expertise in the development of LDPC IP Cores.” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “Dr. Bates is a highly regarded expert on LDPC technology and has built a world class LDPC IP development team and IP core library. We look forward to working with Dr. Bates through our Board of Advisor’s and the development team as part of RAD3.  Raithlin’s existing LDPC IP customers will be fully supported by RAD3.”

“RAD3’s development and management teams have demonstrated world-class expertise in the development and licensing of IP cores for wired and wireless communication products.” said Dr. Stephen Bates, CEO Raithlin Semiconductor. “I look forward to assisting RAD3 with future LDPC IP development and helping RAD3 build a world class communications IP company.”

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Calgary, Canada – February 17, 2009 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a leading communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the commercial availability of its wireless communications IP library.  RAD3’s extensive library of IP is targeted to wireless infrastructure vendors, semiconductor companies and communication OEM’s.

RAD3’s wireless solutions consist of:

• Software Defined Radio and ASIC/FPGA modules targeted to WiMax and LTE (late Q2 availability)
• Forward Error Correction modules targeting multiple wireless standards including WiMax, WiFi, LTE and Wireless USB
• Industry leading, silicon proven, FFT/IFFT modules providing a best-in-class solution for all types of OFDM modems and other applications requiring high-speed FFT processing.

The majority of the IP is silicon proven and in production in numerous communication products world-wide.

“The commercial availability of our wireless IP is an important milestone for RAD3.” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “Our wireless IP library provides a robust and highly-verified platform for communications companies to base their products on. We plan to add a significant number of new products to the library in the course of the year and are also excited by the upcoming release of our LTE software defined radio solution.”

CALGARY, CANADA – JANUARY 14, 2009 – RAD3 Communications Inc. (RAD3), a communications intellectual property (IP) company, today announced the acquisition of the IP assets of Cygnus Communications Canada (Cygnus). RAD3 has acquired the Cygnus IP assets to accelerate the development of its wired and wireless communications IP products.

Under the terms of the agreement RAD3 has exclusively acquired the software intellectual property of Cygnus. The functionality covered by the acquired IP is far ranging and consists of 

• Reference system designs for WiMax and other wireless standards including Software Defined Radio and FPGA/ASIC modem implementations.
• A suite of fundamental signal processing cores including Viterbi, Reed-Solomon and FFT cores
• Encryption/Decryption Cores.

The majority of the IP is silicon proven and in production in numerous communication products world-wide. In addition, RAD3 has also purchased several fundamental patents which underline the purchased IP and state-of-the art software tools used for IP development.

“The acquisition of the Cygnus IP gives RAD3 a world-class library of communications IP.” said Roger Bertschmann, President RAD3. “Cygnus through their initial acquisition of SiWorks and further research efforts had developed a suite of communications IP which was adopted by a large number of semiconductor and infrastructure vendors. The purchase of the IP gives us an excellent basis to build upon and continue our development of a world class communications IP company.”

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