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SSPI --- Spectrum Signal Processing flexComm Software Reconfigurable Platform Selected for Ground Mobile Electronic Warfare System
Tuesday April 13, 7:00 am ET


BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004--Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. (NASDAQ:SSPI - News; TSX:SSY - News), a leading provider of high performance solutions for wireless signal processing applications, today announced that it has received a contract valued at approximately $1.2 million for its flexComm(TM) SDR-3000 platform from an international defense contractor. Spectrum will supply six SDR-3000 systems for use in the development and field trial testing of a ground based mo3bile electronic warfare, or EW, system.
Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 software reconfigurable products will provide advanced signal processing and transceiver functions in a truck mounted EW system. Spectrum is working closely with an international defense contractor, who will be developing and porting its application software to Spectrum's SDR-3000 platform.

"Electronic warfare applications have become an increasingly attractive market opportunity for our software reconfigurable products, including the SDR-3000," said Pascal Spothelfer, President and CEO of Spectrum. "Much of our expertise in signals intelligence and military communications is readily applicable to the electronic warfare market. We are pleased to provide critical technology supporting the development and field trial of this advanced ground mobile system and we are excited about the longer term production potential of this program."

Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 is comprised of a heterogeneous processing platform incorporating field programmable gate arrays from Xilinx®, and PowerPC® processors from Motorola and IBM. RapidIO(TM) provides a high bandwidth interconnect fabric between the processors, as well as the input/output functionality to the processors, to ensure efficient use of the processing resources. Software development tools include Spectrum's quicComm(TM) hardware abstraction layer to facilitate algorithm partitioning and programming, and a POSIX-compliant real-time operating system.

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