BittWare Commits to Long Term VITA 41 VXS Roadmap

LONG BEACH, CA - January 16, 2006 - BittWare, Inc., the leading supplier of hybrid (DSP and FPGA) board-level solutions based on Analog Devices' SHARC® and Altera's FPGA technology, announced today at the Bus & Board Conference the company's commitment to a long term VITA 41 VXS roadmap. The T2-6U-VME board, the most recent addition to their T2 family of TigerSHARC® boards, also represents the first ever COTS VME/VXS board based on the ADSP-TS201. BittWare's VME roadmap currently in development includes two additional boards: a hybrid signal processing board based on Altera's Stratix™ II GX FPGA and Analog Devices TigerSHARC processor, and a quad Stratix II GX board. These products are slated for release in late 2006 and early 2007 timeframe, respectively.

"BittWare recognizes that VITA 41 VXS is the only stable, viable option for providing the Military and commercial markets with an industrial or ruggedized COTS solution," stated Jeffry Milrod, President and CEO of BittWare. "Our 2006/2007 roadmap includes two additional VME boards which will take advantage of our embedded hybrid signal processing architecture, combining the high-end Altera Stratix II FPGAs with a high-performance signal processor."

About the T2-6U-VME

Designed for demanding multiprocessor based operations, and targeted at a broad range of applications including Radar, sonar, communications, and imaging, the T2V6 is available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions and gives VME users full access to the power of the TigerSHARC, providing optimal solutions for the most demanding of applications. The T2V6 is a 6U VME/VXS board featuring eight 600 MHz ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs, two FPGAs, a PMC+ site, 512MB of SDRAM, and flexible, high-throughput I/O interfaces via the front panel, VXS switch fabric, and 2eSST VME. To take full advantage of the high-performance TigerSHARC processors, this multiprocessor board implements a unique, scalable architecture. Dubbed ATLANTiS, this flexible architecture enables system designers to easily reconfigure the I/O and communications. Implemented in the FPGA, ATLANTiS can also be used to implement pre, post, and co-processing. By tightly integrating the DSPs, VXS switch fabric, PMC interface, and I/O peripherals with the on-board FPGA, ATLANTiS gives designers extremely flexible options for configuring, routing, and processing high-throughput I/O.

The T2V6 boasts a tremendous amount of I/O bandwidth, throughput, and options. Included are a VME-PCI Bridge supporting 2eSST, a PMC site with BittWare's PMC+ I/O extensions, high-performance digital I/O headers, and sixteen SerDes high-speed serial transceivers (eight to the VXS switch fabric, eight to the front panel). The dual ATLANTiS architecture adds tremendous flexibility to the T2V6, allowing system designers to configure and route the off-board I/O at over 10 GB/sec as their applications require.

BittWare's SharcFIN PCI bridge chips, give each DSP low-overhead access to the VME bridge and PMC site via the 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface. Each SharcFIN also provides a general-purpose peripheral bus that allows the DSPs to access the Flash and the FPGA control registers, while also enabling host access to the DSPs, on-board SDRAM (up to 256 MB), 16 MB boot Flash, and FPGA control registers.

Complete Software Support

BittWare offers comprehensive software support for the T2V6. The BittWorks software tools provide host interface libraries and a wide variety of diagnostic utilities and configuration tools. Also available are BittWare's TS-Lib" optimized libraries for TigerSHARC, and board support package (BSP) for Gedae". Many third party tools are also available to support BittWare's ADSP-TS201 boards, including Analog Devices' VisualDSP++ and target for MATLAB® and Simulink®. Real-time operating systems available include Analog Devices' VisualDSP Kernel (VDK), and Enea's OSEck RTOS.

T2-6U-VME Availability

The commercial (air cooled) version is available today priced at $9,995 in OEM quantities. A fully rugged conduction cooled/conformal coated version will be available in Q2 2006, with OEM quantities priced at $11,995.

About BittWare, Inc.

Founded in 1989, BittWare, Inc. is the leading supplier of TigerSHARC based DSP boards and software. BittWare uses Analog Devices' (ADI) TigerSHARC and Altera's FPGA technology to provide innovative Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTs) and application-specific solutions for high-performance, real-time signal processing applications. BittWare's product offering addresses OEM needs from prototype-to-production and spans a variety of platforms, including AMC, PCI, CompactPCI, VME, PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PMC and standalone. For more information on BittWare and its innovative embedded solutions, visit www.bittware.com

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