Brooktree Lifts the Lid on New ATM Developer's Tool Kit, Shows Robust New
RISC-Based ATM Design Platform at Networld+Interop

Brooktree will also show the latest from the company's SMDS Control and
Reassembly Formatter (SCARF) Family.

LAS VEGAS, April 2, 1996 -- "Tool Time" hit Networld+Interop today as
Brooktree Corp. (NASDAQ: BTRE, San Diego) unveiled a comprehensive toolkit
for ATM system development using Brooktree ATM silicon. Today through
Thursday at the show, attendees will learn firsthand how easy ATM
development can be as they view live demonstrations of Brooktree's robust
ATM development platform. 

Brooktree has partnered with several leading ATM system and software
developers to create the company's ATM development platform, which takes
designers from initial functional evaluation of Brooktree's Bt8230 and
future ATM silicon, all the way into full ATM embedded-system design.
Joining Brooktree at its booth to demonstrate the new platform is ATM
software leader Harris & Jeffries, which provides the ATM signalling and
protocol software for Brooktree's platform, and Net2Net Corp., whose
CellBlaster system will be providing monitoring information in real-time
as Brooktree's platform takes a sample ATM system through rigorous ATM
network development and design analysis exercises. 

Brooktree's ATM Development Platform includes a complete 8230-based ATM
User Network Interface (UNI) PCI module, residing on a RISC-based
multitasking, dual-PCI-bus host processor board from Cyclone Microsystems.


The platform also includes the VxWorks real-time operating system from
Windriver Systems, and a modular low-level software interface that allows
users to easily port their applications to Brooktree's platform and
migrate to new silicon without extensive software re-design. 

"Our goal for the show was to demonstrate just how robust an ATM
development environment can -- and needs -- to be in today's market
environment," said Tracy Earles, Brooktree ATM Senior Product Marketing
Engineer.

"We are demonstrating in real time not only how powerful the
traffic-management scheduling mechanism in our Bt8230 silicon is, but also
how easy it will be for designers to initiate fullscale system design and
eventually migrate their Bt8230 designs to new Brooktree ATM silicon as
key ATM industry-standard specifications evolve," Earles added. "In one
demo, we are running our own application software in VxWorks with multiple
channels open, each with varying rates that are changing and being
calculated by the Bt8230's powerful scheduling mechanism in real time, all
monitored with the CellBlaster equipment so attendees can see everything
that's happening. In the second demo, we'll be running Harris & Jeffries'
ATM signalling software, showing how the platform has the ability right
out of the box to set up and tear down virtual ATM connections in complex
system design scenarios." 

SMDS Solutions Cut Cost, Power Requirements for SMDS Equipment

NetWorld+Inteorp attendees will also get their first look at Brooktree's
new SMDS network interface (SNI) solutions, announced today. Brooktree's
new Bt8209 and newly updated Bt8210 SMDS Control and Reassembly Formatter
(SCARF) chips provide complete support for both sides of the SNI. As
fully-integrated single-chip implementations, they also cut the cost,
power consumption and board-space requirements of SMDS equipment by an
order of magnitude as compared to alternative solutions. Until now, these
alternative solutions have generally been implemented with
field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. 

Also on display at the show are Brooktree's High Bit Rate Digital
Subscriber Line (HDSL) chip family, and the company's BtV MediaStream
multimedia accelerator chipset family. 

This press release may make forward-looking statements concerning Brooktree
products or potential market performance and actual results could vary
depending on issues related to ATM industry standards, the performance of
corporate partners providing components of Brooktree's ATM Development
Platform, and product development schedules. We refer you to the documents
the company files from time to time with the SEC, specifically the
company's Form 10-Q filed in February 1996 and Form 10-K filed in December
1995, which detail certain risk factors. 

Brooktree Corp. designs and markets high-performance digital and
mixed-signal integrated circuits for computer graphics, imaging,
multimedia and communications applications. The company, which has its
headquarters in San Diego, employs more than 625 people worldwide.
Brooktree stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the
symbol BTRE. 

Customers interested in more information about Brooktree products should
contact the Applications Hotline at 1-800-2BT-APPS. More information on
Brooktree Corp. is available from the company's SEC filings, or by
contacting the company directly. Information about Brooktree is also
available on the company's World Wide Web site, http://www.brooktree.com.

Brooktree Corp
9868 Scranton Road
San Diego, CA 92121-3707
619-452-7580,  fax 619-452-1249
 
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