Phoenix, AZ, January 25, 2010 - Toronto-based ALT Software announced today that it has formed a U.S. subsidiary with operations in Phoenix, Arizona. This new subsidiary is the home of ALT's new Embedded Tools and Solutions Center of Excellence. ALT is an established industry leader in embedded media and graphics drivers. Their products are used in commercial and Military aircraft as well as in consumer devices and automotive infotainment systems. The new Center of Excellence will build outward from these strengths to offer tools, middleware, and application-level software to ALT's growing customer base. Phoenix is a strategic location for ALT because of its concentration of Tier 1 customers and rich talent base of software engineers with the skills required to create high performance embedded software for resource-constrained devices and safety-critical environments.

"The Embedded Tools and Solutions Center of Excellence will take the lead on building a fresh, application-level focus for us while also providing support for ALT's core products to our many Phoenix-based customers," said Darryl Parisien, President of ALT Software. "By combining the talent base we have found in Phoenix with our close proximity to strategic customers and industry movers and shakers, ALT USA will be able to offer best in class embedded media application software. The U.S. subsidiary is also an excellent solution to the challenges we face as a Canadian corporation that works closely with the U.S. defense industry."

About ALT Software Inc.

ALT Software is the world's leading supplier of advanced 2D/3D graphics, safety critical and OpenGL enabling solutions for embedded systems.

The company provides OpenGL ES, OpenGL SC and OpenVG graphics drivers for SoCs and discrete GPUs from AMD, Fujitsu, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Texas Instruments, Freescale, and others. ALT's customizable high-performance 2D/3D embedded graphics drivers support a variety of real time operating systems (RTOS) and a range of system configurations.

From display drivers for the ATI Radeon E4690, AMD's latest high-performance embedded computing GPU, to an OpenGL 1.1/SC software-based graphics renderer, ALT's products support the full spectrum of high to low-end graphics requirements of various embedded systems. Their software is designed for deployment in aerospace and defense systems as well as in automotive, medical, industrial, and consumer devices.