"This effort
gives us more confidence, knowing our decisions are based on solid, standard
rationale., today
describes its groundbreaking approach to next generation wireless
implementation platforms at 2005 Design Automation Conference (DAC) in
Anaheim, CA.

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"Seldom does the electric industry see a study with such potential to
change the way we site power lines," said Nate Mullins, manager of
transmission lines for Kentucky Utilities .

3Plus1 Technology Describes Architectural Strategies for Ultra Low Power Wireless Processors at DAC 2005

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A seventh city and park will be selected soon.metlife. GTC owns and maintains 2,684 miles of
lines.

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"With eighty percent of Americans living in cities, and as many as three
in four residents without access to a park, the need is great for support to
create new parks ," said TPL president, Will Rogers.

More than 400 officials from government agencies, utilities, environmental
groups and neighborhood organizations from Georgia and surrounding states took
part in the research and provided critical reviews.
Copies of the GTC-EPRI report are available at the Electric Power Research
Institute at http://www.
The CoolProcessor technology has been developed in record time, based on
an internally developed, automated methodology, capable of generating RTL,
simulation, analysis and verification tools automatically from a high-level
design database.

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TPL's Parks for People Initiative is
revitalizing the city parks movement, and building partnerships among
communities groups, government agencies, and residents through the creation of
parks, play fields, playgrounds, and gardens, often on the site of vacant lots
and abandoned buildings .
-- Chicago -- One of the few existing parks in population-dense Logan
Square, Haas Park will be expanded by 75 percent, and include a new field
house. Data
collection and analysis cost savings at Georgia Transmission range from
$10,000 to $100,000 per project, according to Jesse Glasgow of Photo Science
Geospatial Solutions Inc. This has been
accomplished in a sub-100mw processor core when implemented in a standard
130nm low-power CMOS process.

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Since its
founding in 1972, TPL has completed 425 park projects in American cities,
adding more than 35,000 acres of new urban parkland . "We are delighted to help the Trust for Public
Land bring its urban open space work to scale nationally and invest in the
healthy development of our young people and communities. "This grant from MetLife
Foundation is a welcome and exciting evolution of our long and successful
partnership since 1996 , again demonstrating their ongoing commitment to and
passion for livable cities. Report could help influence the way utilities locate power lines

ATLANTA, Atlanta-based Georgia
Transmission Corporation (GTC) and the Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI) today released a report that could influence how many electric
utilities site transmission lines. Implementation consulting, including the software
program, is being offered to electric utilities by Photo Science.

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Neighborhood parks and open spaces improve physical and psychological
health, strengthen communities, and make our cities and neighborhoods more
attractive places to live and work."

The cities benefiting from the MetLife Foundation Parks + Playgrounds Fund
are:

-- Atlanta -- When completed , 38-acre North Avenue Park will serve nearly
4,000 people and five schools within one mile, and connect this rapidly
growing neighborhood with play areas, community gardens, two lakes, and
linkage to pedestrian and bike paths and the Carter Presidential Center.
-- Miami -- For the 5,000 children in Miami's historic Overtown
neighborhood, Overtown Playground will be the first playground for this
community in more than a decade. For more
information about TPL, visit http://www. For more
information about the Foundation, visit http://www.
3Plus1 has assembled a group of world-class technologists , including leading
academics in their fields, addressing the problems of real-time voice, video
and data processing -- at ultra low power levels and minimum silicon die
size -- from the fundamental software and hardware architectural perspectives.

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Copies are available free to EPRI members and for
a fee for non-members.

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three schools will trade barren asphalt lots for brand new parks that will
include playground equipment, athletic fields, and green landscapes with
natural features such as trees and gardens based on the particular needs of
the community.

MetLife Foundation has contributed $2 million to TPL for park and
playground creation in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston , New York City, and San
Francisco. The report proposes:

* Rigorous, step-by-step procedures for documenting and consistently
applying planning assumptions, evaluation criteria and decisions ,
* A new geographic information systems (GIS)-based software program that
automatically defines large study areas, alternative corridors and a final
route from multiple sets of data for roads, terrain, utility corridors,
wetlands and other features, and
* Research techniques for reaching consensus on the relative importance of
features, such as wetlands and housing density, and the ranking of
environmental, manmade and engineering conditions. In
addition, GTC has revamped its siting practice and the Kentucky Utilities
Company has adopted the new siting approach."
Georgia Transmission, a not-for-profit company, is owned by 39 of the
state's 42 electric membership cooperatives (EMCs).

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180, JHS 216, and JHS 220 respectively, serving
3,200 students and three communities without recreational facilities.

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The MetLife Foundation Parks + Playgrounds Fund will support TPL's Parks
for People Initiative, which is working to ensure that everyone
-- particularly every child - - enjoys close-to-home access to a park,
playground or natural area.
"MetLife Foundation is committed to revitalizing urban neighborhoods by
creating safe places for young people to play and grow," said Sibyl Jacobson,
president, MetLife Foundation."
Georgia Transmission's officials said the process creates more consistent
decisions, improves productivity and reduces data collection costs., Norcross, Ga.
Finally, the company describes its basic architectural approach that
results in a compelling "GOP's per milliwatt per cent" and details the
hierarchical compilation strategy that enables not only a flexible programming
model but also one which is highly user friendly.

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GTC, a not-for-profit transmission cooperative, and EPRI, based in Palo
Alto, Calif.
The CoolProcessor family comprises six members, all upwardly code
compatible with a single programming model.

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Trust for Public Land and MetLife Foundation Team Up for Parks

org."
"As we build more transmission lines to keep up with demand, our decisions
are exposed to legal and public scrutiny ," said Mike Smith, president and CEO
of Georgia Transmission, a company that built 48 miles of new transmission
lines in 2005 and 86 miles of new transmission lines in 2004.

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-- New York City -- Harlem, Queens, and Brooklyn will be home to three new
community playgrounds at P., 3Plus1 Technology Inc.

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Since 1972,
TPL has conserved over 2 million acres of land nationwide. "As we used this approach , we
found that it ultimately produces more consistent decisions by forcing us to
document and quantify the judgments we make.
Formed in 2003, 3Plus1 Technology has created an architecture specifically
designed for low-power, concurrent execution of specific modems and codecs,
including WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, UWB, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA, GPS, MPEG 2/4,
H.

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MetLife Foundation funding will
support redevelopment of nine-acre Lower Gwynns Falls Park along the trail,
benefiting approximately 40,000 individuals living within walking distance.tpl.
MetLife Foundation, established by MetLife in 1976, supports education,
health, civic and cultural programs throughout the United States., conducted a two-year study of GTC's siting process and devised a
new approach for planning, evaluating and selecting new power line locations. Four workshops were used
to establish new siting procedures and site-selection criteria, values and
other preferences. "Professional judgment is still needed to rank routes,
visual concerns, community concerns and construction accessibility, but this
is the closest anyone has come yet to turning human siting decisions into
data-assisted human decision -making.epri.

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Based on two years of research and development effort, 3Plus1 describes
the five vectors of power, price (silicon area), performance, programming ease
and programming flexibility and maps competing architectural approaches, such
that true relative efficiencies can be seen easily .

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MetLife Foundation's leadership support will help
TPL bring new parks to the neighborhoods that need them most.
-- Baltimore -- Fourteen-mile Gwynns Falls Trail will be completed by Fall
2005 , linking thirty low to moderate-income neighborhoods to parks,
playgrounds, ballfields, and historic sites. Jan Rabaey, UCB, Leads Wireless Platforms Panel Session,
'GOP's for Cents for Milliwatts'

Panel Session Questions the Validity of Conventional Architectures
for Efficient Wireless Platform Implementation

SARATOGA, Calif.

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-- San Francisco -- Enhancements to southern San Francisco's Potrero Hill
Park Playground will increase recreational opportunities for the community,
including six local schools. This support enabled TPL to develop seven community gardens and
create six new parks and playgrounds throughout New York City , restore 15-acre
Leon Day Park in Baltimore, renovate Lincoln Square Park and Lockwood
Elementary Schoolyard in Oakland, CA, protect Whittier Mill Park in Atlanta,
and create two community playgrounds in Boston. The company recently
revised its siting practice and uses the new process for planning its $100
million in construction each year.com. Market driven metrics are then
described for silicon area and processor core power for these scenarios.

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MetLife Foundation Parks + Playground Fund to Spur Creation of New Parks and
Playgrounds in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York City and
San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Today, the Trust for Public Land
(TPL) announced a $1 million leadership grant from MetLife Foundation for
creation of new parks and playgrounds in seven cities nationwide.
The EPRI-GTC Overhead Transmission Line Siting Methodology Report presents
a new siting approach by taking a sample transmission line project from
initial planning through final route selection. It helps us make decisions that
are more objective , consistent and defensible.
"This report shows utilities how to deliver more consistent decisions ,
backed by standard, defensible rationale," said John Goodrich-Mahoney, EPRI
program manager.

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Professor Jan Rabaey, Berkeley Wireless Research Laboratory, University of
California at Berkeley, moderates the five member panel and based on the
observation that "data communication has taken over from voice as the main
force behind the growth wireless revenues" and hence "the opportunities
offered by ubiquitous connectivity are tremendous, leading to revolutionary
changes in the way that computer, communication and consumer systems operate
and interact.263/4, MP3, AAC, and JPEG /2000 in various combinations.

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In the rapidly growing River North neighborhood, River North Park will
connect an existing park and the community to the east bank of the Chicago
River.
The Trust for Public Land is a national nonprofit organization dedicated
to conserving land for people to enjoy as parks and open space.org.

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3Plus1 describes the modem and codec based applications that are required
in next generation systems and the large increase in processing "GOP's" that
are needed for running these in real time.
Financed by its founders since its inception, with additional income from
sales of its first tools and services, the company is addressing the needs of
the 600-million-plus handset, mobile media player, camera and PDA market. Development of software
applications follows a standard DSP tool flow and the company is currently
delivering its initial applications -development software and modeling tools to
early evaluation partners.

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The EPRI-GTC study has been presented at a number of industry conferences,
and it was featured last year in Transmission + Distribution World. Other utilities, including a
pipeline concern, are pursuing the new process ., a GTC contractor that contributed to
the study and developed the software tool."
"We are honored to join this debate and give a comparative insight into
next generation architectures for fully software programmable wireless
platforms that address the new market opportunities," said Allan Cox, 3Plus1
Technology's President and CEO, "the notion of concurrent voice, video and
data application scenarios that can be flexibly run in a single processor is
now a reality, together with an acceptable power and price point for next
generation mobile wireless systems.