Enea Announces Bare Metal Performance Tools for Cavium OCTEON® Family of Multicore Processors

Enea Announces Bare Metal Performance Tools for Cavium OCTEON® Family of
Multicore Processors

Deep Graphical Code Visualization Helps Maximize Throughput and Performance for
Multicore Packet Processing Applications

STOCKHOLM, Sweden and SAN JOSE, California, January 18, 2012 – Enea® (NASDAQ:
OMX, Nordic:ENEA) and Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) today announced that the Enea®
Bare Metal Performance (BMP) Tools will now support Cavium OCTEON® multicore
processors.  The IP packet processing market is growing exponentially with
applications in networking equipment, telecommunications infrastructure (4G
LTE), security services, and data centers to name a few. This market is driven
by ever increasing high-bandwidth requirements where throughput and system
performance optimization determines industry winners. Enea’s BMP Tools
(www.enea.com/bmptools) ensure that equipment manufacturers can quickly and
visually optimize the performance of their products. 

Cavium OCTEON multicore processors support a large number of real
general-purpose cores, each of which can run either Linux or a “bare metal
platform” like Cavium’s Simple Executive, whereby a given processor core
executes in a “run-to-completion” mode with minimal overhead and maximum
processing bandwidth.   Enea BMP Tools allow for easier optimization of bare
metal applications by giving developers deep graphical visibility into system
behavior and performance without adding additional processing overhead.  The
result is more highly tuned, optimized, and reliable applications. 

"As the innovator and leader in the development of bare metal tools for
multicore applications we are pleased to be working with Cavium to deliver
solutions that will immediately accelerate the development process for our joint
customers,” said Karl Mörner, VP of Software Products at Enea.  “The Cavium
OCTEON multicore processor family has been widely adopted and provides strong
performance characteristics.  We look forward to helping developers get the most
out of these devices.”   

“Enea’s Bare Metal Performance Tools combined with the market-leading Cavium
OCTEON multicore processors offer manufacturers of high-performance data plane
equipment a compelling solution,” said YJ Kim, General Manager, Infrastructure
Processor Group at Cavium, Inc.  “In the packet processing business high
performance is essential and the BMP Tools provide true visualization and help
developers get greater throughput from their applications.”

Enea BMP Tools consists of an Eclipse-based host tools suite called Enea®
Optima, a set of run time libraries and agents for profiling and logging data
collection, and an IPC (Interprocess Communications) mechanism called Enea® LINX
for transport of the collected data to the Optima host tool, or to an external
file for later analysis.

Enea BMP Tools provide three types of services: software profiling, application
profiling, and logging/tracing.  Software profiling helps developers optimize a
slow performing application by visualizing runtime hardware constraints caused
by the non-optimized source code. Enea BMP Tools provide two types of
performance visualization tools targeting source code profiling and application
profiling.  Source code profiling identifies at the source code level where
constraints such as pipeline stalls, TLB misses and cache misses are causing
sub-optimal performance, by matching these hardware events/counters to the
source code at any level of the application function call tree, even down to
individual lines of code in any given function. This includes overall CPU
utilization of any function or line of code.  Application profiling creates and
analyzes application software level statistics with the purpose of profiling the
applications overall performance and behavior. Such statistics could be idle
time, throughput statistics, extraneous hardware events, or any other user
defined statistics that makes sense to the application.

With the Enea BMP Tools log/trace facility, both text and binary log information
may be collected in a single circular buffer that may be extracted either
continuously or by discreet command. Log data may be forwarded directly to the
host Optima tools suite for analysis or to an external termination point (file
system) for later analysis. Log data may also be extracted “post mortem” after a
crash to help debug the cause of the crash. Logging and tracing tools are useful
for identification of faults, system bottlenecks, and otherwise extraneous
behavior in order to increase the reliability of the application as designed.

BMP Tools are useful at most stages of the software development life cycle, from
initial software system testing on the target hardware platform through full
system integration, test and verification, and even in field deployment. 
Evaluation copies are available (contact local Enea sales representative) and
pricing starts at $25K for developer licenses.

Enea’s BMP Tools will initially support the OCTEON Plus family of multicore
processors with follow-on support for OCTEON II and are available immediately.

About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing in networking, communications and the digital
home. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to over 40 Gbps that enable
secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer
and access & service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by
ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference
designs and other services. Cavium’s principal offices are in San Jose,
California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India,
Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future
events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from
actual future events or results.  These forward-looking statements involve risks
and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations.  Our actual
results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated
in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks, uncertainties and
assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements
include but are not limited to the rate of new design wins, the rate at which
existing design wins go into production, the timing of purchases by Cavium’s
customers, acceptance by customers of Cavium’s new product introductions,
whether or not the company can continue to expand gross margins and operating
margins, pricing pressures, general economic conditions, manufacturing
difficulties, and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our
documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s business
are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10Q filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2011.  All forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of
the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement,
and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking
statements.

For more information

Europe:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email: catharina.paulcen@enea.com

North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email: chris.lanfear@enea.com

Asia Pacific:
Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email: fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com