SANTA CLARA, California, October 9 2007 –

Yitran announces the availability of HomePlug Command & Control (HPCC) ready powerline networking IC products, the IT800D and the upcoming IT700. These ICs are ideally suited for a variety of Home Automation, Building Automation and Electric Utility Automation applications and priced optimally for mass market adoption. The HPCC V1.0 standard is based on Yitran’s IT800 powerline transceiver technology, with the contribution of the HomePlug Technical Evaluation Group (TEG) members such as: Ariane Controls, Corporate Systems Engineering, GE, Huawei, LG Electronics, RadioShack and Simply Automated.

Avner Matmor, Co-Founder and the CEO of Yitran said: "Yitran wishes to thank the HomePlug BOD as well as the HPCC TEG members for its tremendous work in ratifying a spec that will revolutionize the Home Command and Control market as well as the Energy Management and Energy Conservation space. The HPCC V1.0 defines a standard technology that can sustained any Powerline grid condition, provides full home communication coverage as well as full connectivity in a very poor grid conditions recognized in some areas in the world, like China, India and others, and at a very small die size and cost. Yitran has allowed using its patents to make sure that the HPCC V1.0 will be produced by multi chip vendors for free, as it believes the market needs multiple sources to succeed and fulfill the expected huge and versatile demand".

The IT800D SoC integrates the HPCC V1.0 compliant MAC/PHY with an ARM7 CPU core. This is a modem IC with a 64K Mask ROM running the data link layer software and is currently in MP. The IT700 is a highly integrated next generation low cost IC combining an extended 8051 CPU core, HPCC V1.0 compliant MAC/PHY, 256K Flash and 16K RAM. Manufactured on a 0.18u flash technology, the IC comes in a QFN48 package.

Compared to the current IT800D IC, the IT700 integrates many of the components including the line driver inside the chip and takes in a single 3.3v input. The overall number of external components necessary to create a node is much less than the current IT800D product. The chip is fully backward compatible to work with the IT800D applications. In addition, the data link layer will be upgraded to include 128-bit AES encryption offering data security at the packet level defined by HPCC V1.0. Commercial samples of the IT700 and the starter kit will be available in 2Q08 with MP scheduled for 3Q08.

Yitran is also pleased to announce the availability of a companion network layer software suite called “Y-NET”. Y-Net combines the advantages of Yitran’s extremely robust and reliable IT800 PLC modem technology with enhanced Networking capabilities such as Plug & Play, Logical Network Creation, Master-Slave and Peer-to-Peer Network Configurations, Multiple Network Topologies (Fully Connected, Mesh, Tree), Multiple Network Support, Selective and Secure Participation of Nodes, Dynamic Routing/Repeating, Failure Detection, Network Parameter Recovery, etc.

It allows application developers and system integrators not only seamless evaluation of the PLC modem performance, but also dramatically reduce the system development cycle.

Yitran will continue to offer a robust and progressive technology roadmap aiming at 100Kbps rate. Yitran will continue its contribution to the HomePlug alliances in reaching this goal for HPCC next version

To spur the availability of ICs from multiple sources, Yitran will license the HPCC V1.0 technology free of charge to semiconductor manufacturers.
For product availability and pricing details, contact Revital Roer at Yitran Communications (revital@yitran.com).

About Yitran Communications Ltd.

A fabless semiconductor company, Yitran Communications Ltd. designs, develops, and markets high performance, low cost PLC (Power Line Communication) modem chips and systems. Yitran’s products provide robust and reliable communication over the existing electrical wiring and power grids and enable a variety of "No New Wires" applications, such as Home Automation, Command & Control, AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) and Internet distribution over power lines (in hotels and MDU/MTU markets). Yitran's customer and partner lists include leading companies, such as Renesas, Matsushita Electric Works, Hitachi, KEPCO, Kinden, LG and Microsoft. For further details: http://www.yitran.com/.

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