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             "The clock frequency of the SDRAM interface is our major 
              bottleneck in providing higher bandwidth," said Aptitude Vice President 
              and Chief Technical Officer Russell Dietz.  
            "We plan to double the clock frequency on the SDRAM interface 
              to 125 MHz by using Virtex delay lock loops to de-skew the FPGA 
              clock and the SDRAM clock. Another advantage Xilinx Virtex 
              FPGAs offer is their seamless fit into our current ASIC software 
              flow."  
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      Apptitude  is a pioneer in the 
        applications performance management market, providing application-aware 
        networking solutions. Apptitude's unique solution allows customers to 
        understand who is using which business applicationas and the impact to 
        the netowrk. With application usage as a business metric, IT customers 
        can meet service level agreements (SLAs), implement billing, and charge 
        back or improve netowrk capacity planning.
       Apptitude's goal is to ensure customers' network investments consistently 
        deliver maximum value for their users and business aplications. Founded 
        in 1995, the company was originally named Technically Elite.
       Apptitude is privately owned with promary venture funding from AVI Management 
        Partners, corporate investments from Siemens Corporation and professional 
        investment from ASCII Corporation and Itochu Techno Science. For more 
        information visit the Apptitude website at www.apptitude.com .
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