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Exar Corporation and Mouser Electronics Sign Global Distribution Agreement

Monday 08. December 2008 - Stock Includes Interface, Power Management, and Communication Products

Exar Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAR) announced it has signed a global distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics a leading on-line and catalog distributor of electronics.

Mouser is stocking a broad range of Exar’s products, such as transceivers and UARTs; a variety of power management ICs, such as boost and buck regulators, charge pumps, LED drivers, LDO regulators, and USBs; and communications products used in T/E carrier and SONET/SDH applications, such as T1/E1 and T3/E3 framer combos, timing ICs, and transceivers, as well as SATA products for Storage applications.

“Exar is excited to be working with Mouser,” said Paul Stafford, director of global distribution sales for Exar. “As a leading catalog and on-line distributor, Mouser’s focus on the design engineering community will accelerate the evaluation and adoption of Exar’s products.”

“We are pleased to be adding Exar Corporation to our semiconductor lineup. Exar specializes in the power management, communications, and interface silicon solutions fields, and their expertise results in excellent products for our design engineering customers,” says Mike Scott, Mouser vice president of Active Products.

Known for its broad-based product line, unsurpassed customer service, and streamlined warehouse operations, Mouser continuously offers customers the most innovative products and latest technologies for their new design projects.

Mouser Electronics is the only major distributor to publish a new 2,100+ page print catalog every 90 days. In addition, its website with interactive online catalog is updated daily, contains more than a million products for easy online purchase, provides over 1.5 million cross-references, as well as more than 900,000 downloadable data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, and other technical design information.