Exar Makes Presentation at AdvancedTCA Summit

FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that John Fryar, senior director of technical marketing for Hifn Security and Compression Products for Exar, will present "Drop-In Suite B Security for AdvancedTCA Systems" on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. (PDT) during Session 103: Security in AdvancedTCA Applications. Mr. Fryar's presentation will discuss how the National SecurityAgency's "Suite B" of encryption algorithms enables Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) implementations of Secret and Top Secret security on AdvancedTCA Platforms and how Exar's recently announced DS 4050 AMC family enables easy upgrade of in service systems to support Suite B.

Exar is making available a white paper that discusses more in-depth the Suite B encryption algorithms and their impact on COTS Security on their website at - http://public.hifn.com/Hifn%20Document%20Library/WP_Suite_B%20DS4050.pdf.. The white paper was commissioned by Exar and written by Bob Wheeler, industry analyst, for research firm, The Linley Group.

The AdvancedTCA Summit and Exhibition will take place October 27 - 29, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Visit the AdvancedTCA Summit website to learn more about the event and how to attend - http://www.advancedtcasummit.com/.

About Exar

Exar Corporation delivers highly differentiated silicon, software and subsystem solutions for industrial, datacom and storage applications. For nearly 40 years, Exar's comprehensive knowledge of end-user markets along with the underlying analog, mixed signal and digital technology has enabled innovative solutions that meet the needs of the evolving connected world. Exar's product portfolio includes power management and interface components, communications products, storage optimization solutions, network security and applied service processors. Exar has locations worldwide providing real-time customer support to drive rapid product development. For more information about Exar, visit: http://www.exar.com.

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