Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.'s flexComm SDR-3000 software platform has been selected by a leading European defense contractor for the development of a compact wide-band jamming system. It will incorporate Spectrum's SDR-3000 platform in a compact 2U configuration. The customer purchased two systems valued at approximately $100,000, each for development purposes, and expects to purchase an additional nine units for delivery in late 2005 or early 2006. The jamming system is expected to be marketed internationally as a catalog product to NATO-friendly customers.

“Electronic warfare applications have become an increasingly attractive market opportunity for our software reconfigurable products, including the SDR-3000,” said Dan Simard, managing director of Spectrum's European operations.

“Much of our know-how in signals intelligence and military communications is applicable to the electronic warfare market. This expertise, combined with our ability to package the functionality of our SDR-3000 into customized, deployment-scaled platforms, was the key to our success in this design-in,” he added.

Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 comprises a heterogeneous processing platform incorporating field-programmable gate arrays from Xilinx and PowerPC processors from Freescale and IBM. RapidIO provides the high-bandwidth, interconnect fabric between the processors. Software development tools include Spectrum's quicComm hardware abstraction layer that facilitates algorithm partitioning and programming and a real-time operating system.

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