Langen, Germany, May 26, 2009 – Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH (FME) and Advanced Digital Design S.A. (ADD), a world leader in the development of SoCs for communication over Power Line and solutions for AMM, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop products for the Automatic Meter Management (AMM) market.

By the terms of the agreement, FME and ADD will jointly promote PRIME (Powerline Related Intelligent Metering Evolution) based OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) devices, entirely designed by ADD, to the metering market world wide. The first device was developed based on Fujitsu’s manufacturing technology, and will be available as samples by Q4 2009 with mass production planned during Q1 2010. A comprehensive roadmap of devices for OFDM-based meters has also been agreed.

“This agreement with ADD adds a new product line to FME’s portfolio, extending our capabilities to address the special requirements of the industrial arena,” said Wolf Fronauer, Marketing Manager, Industrial at FME.

“Automatic meter reading is expected to grow rapidly, bringing with it challenging requirements in terms of power consumption, communication robustness and Security features. The agreement with Fujitsu will allow customers to take advantage of a robust and field-proven solution developed by us in combination with Fujitsu’s leading-edge manufacturing technologies and logistic services,” said Alfredo Sanz, founder of ADD.

About Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is a major supplier of semiconductor products. The company provides advanced systems solutions to the automotive, digital TV, mobile telephony, communications, networking and industrial markets. Engineers from design centres dedicated to microcontrollers, graphics controllers, mixed-signal, Wireless, multimedia ICs, ASIC products and software development, work closely with FME's marketing and sales teams throughout EMEA to help satisfy customers' systems development requirements. This solutions approach is supported by a broad range of advanced semiconductor devices, IP, building blocks and software.

For more information, please see: emea.fujitsu.com/microelectronics

About Advanced Digital Design

Advanced Digital Design S.A. is a leading fabless semiconductor vendor, founded in 2001 and focused on the development of System-on-Chip (SoC) devices with communication capabilities for large volume markets. During the last year the main focus of ADD was to develop SoCs for the electricity AMM market. ADD works closely with customers and electricity utilities to develop AMM systems open and multi providers worldwide. The PLC technology of ADD is helping to define the new communication standards for PLC systems in Europe and Asia.