October 10, 2002

Lacroix joins Discera as CEO

Ann Arbor, MI. October 10, 2002 - Didier Lacroix has joined Discera of Ann Arbor, Michigan as CEO. Discera enables radio frequency (RF) companies to design revolutionary products using Discera's proprietary microsystems technology.

Lacroix brings over 20 years of experience in building technology businesses-- and recent experience in managing the development and launch of MEMS-based (micro-electro-mechanical systems) products. Prior to joining Discera, Lacroix was vice-president and general manager of MEMSCAP's wireless business unit in San Jose, Calif. MEMSCAP is a leading provider of solutions based on MEMS platforms. As general manager, he forged key relationships between the company and several large semiconductor and MEMS foundries throughout the world to bring the company's products to mass production.

Before joining MEMSCAP, Lacroix was the group director for the wireless and broadband communication group of SYNOPSYS, overseeing the development of new products for 2G and 3G wireless applications and prior to that, he held a variety of senior management roles at Cadence. He has also held senior management roles at Silicon Compilers Systems and Thomson Research Lab.

He holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur from Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique and an MSEE from the California Institute of Technology.

About Discera

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Discera enables radio frequency (RF) companies to design revolutionary products including integrated circuits and passives modules with Discera's proprietary technology primarily for communications products and applications such as cellular handsets, wireless LANs and cable television modems. This exciting technology will enable a broad range of wireless devices to be higher performance, much smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient.

Discera has a large portfolio of patents to cover frequency selective, low-power receiver architectures; the design and manufacturing of highly integrated, semiconductor compatible mechanical resonators and variable capacitors; and the circuit design of receiver building blocks including resonator-based oscillators, filters, mixers and channel-select circuits. Using microsystems technology, numerous discrete filtering applications will ultimately be integrated onto a single chip. For more information, visit www.discera.com.

EDITORS NOTE: A color photograph of Didier Lacroix is available via e-mail by contacting Colleen Robar at crobar@ardesta.com or 734-528-6113.