Press Release

15 Jan 2007

Keil PK51 supports SST'S Theseus Titanium Smartcard Family

Plano, TX: Keil and SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.), a leader in flash memory technology, today announced an enhancement of the Keil PK51 Professional Developer's Kit with extensive support for the SST Theseus® Titanium smart card family.

The Keil PK51 Professional Developer's Kit provides Theseus Titanium customers with a complete software development tool solution including the acclaimed Keil 8051 C compiler and µVision3 IDE. SST worked closely with Keil to provide complete device simulation of its Theseus Titanium family in order to offer its users a seamless and easy to use simulation environment.

Richard Morley, vice president of smart card IC's within SST, said, "We are pleased to offer our customers Theseus Titanium device support within the Keil PK51 Professional Developer's Kit. Providing this support should significantly reduce the time required for our customers to develop, test, and sample new smart card applications on Theseus Titanium devices."

Smart card software engineers can now simulate their code using Keil's PK51 Professional Developer's Kit and then generate instant samples using the programmability of SST Theseus Titanium devices. Keil's 8051 Professional Developer's Kit offers complete device simulation for CPU ISS and all on-chip peripherals of the Theseus Titanium devices, enabling smart card applications to be developed and verified without the need for hardware. The ability to simulate in software greatly enhances the security of the Theseus Titanium device.

"Keil has supported smart card developers since 1994 and are the leading supplier of both smart card and 8051 development tools," said Reinhard Keil, director MCU tools at Keil. "This enhancement to PK51 Developer's Kit will enable SST to offer much improved tool support to users of their smart card devices. We look forward to working with SST to provide tool solutions for future smartcard devices."

About SST's Theseus Titanium Devices

Theseus Titanium devices are secure system-on-chip microcontrollers designed specifically for smart card applications. Theseus Titanium devices feature SST SuperFlash memory, which removes the security risks associated with using ROM-based memory and considerably reduces time-to-market for new smart card products. The Emosyn Theseus Titanium smart card IC product line features five flash-based versions ranging in densities from 30 KBytes to 230 KBytes. For additional information about product availability, contact SST at http://www.sst.com.

About SST

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs, flash microcontroller and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com.

About Keil

Keil, an ARM® company, makes C compilers, macro assemblers, real-time kernels, debuggers, simulators, integrated environments and evaluation boards for ARM7™/ARM9™/Cortex-M3™, XC16x/C16x/ST10, 251 and 8051 processor-based microcontroller families. Products available from Keil include embedded development tools, evaluation software, product updates, application notes, example code and technical support. More information on Keil is available at www.keil.com.