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Dy 4 Systems Teams with Green Hills Software to Support INTEGRITY RTOS
on Dy 4 PowerPC Single Board Computers

KANATA, Ontario (June 30, 2003) — Dy 4 Systems, a division of Force Computers, a Solectron company, and a leading manufacturer of COTS VME and CompactPCI products for military and aerospace applications, announced today a partnership with leading real-time operating system (RTOS) company, Green Hills Software, to offer the high-reliability INTEGRITY® RTOS on a range of Dy 4's rugged PowerPC single board computers (SBC), including support for the SVME/DMV-181.

"We have seen great interest from customers in using the INTEGRITY RTOS on our SVME/DMV-181 SBC for many applications requiring high-reliability", said Stewart Dewar, Dy 4's single board computer product marketing manager. "We have worked closely with Green Hills, resulting in a robust port of INTEGRITY with support for many of the advanced features of our most popular single board computer."

"Green Hills is pleased to collaborate with Dy 4, a company that is well known in the defense and aerospace community for providing leading edge rugged products and support," said Dan Mender, INTEGRITY's director of business development at Green Hills Software.

The SVME/DMV-181 is one of Dy 4's complete line of PowerPC single board computers. Based on a 500MHz Motorola MPC7410 PowerPC, the 181 offers up to 1Gbyte of SDRAM memory with ECC, 48Mbytes of 64 bit wide Flash EPROM, two PMC mezzanine I/O expansion sites, dual 10/100Mbit Ethernet ports, SCSI, six serial ports, discrete I/O and two USB ports.

INTEGRITY is a secure, fast, deterministic, royalty-free real-time operating system for embedded applications that demand reliability, real-time performance, testability, and RTCA DO-178B certifiability to the most stringent stage, level A. Utilizing a processor's memory management (MMU) facilities, INTEGRITY builds a wall between the kernel and user tasks that prevents errant or malicious code from corrupting other user tasks or the kernel. INTEGRITY delivers maximum responsiveness and measurable determinism by never disabling interrupts during any system call in addition to supporting guaranteed access to both CPU and memory resources for your systems' most critical tasks.

Green Hills INTEGRITY for the SVME/DMV-181 is available immediately from Green Hills.
Detailed information may be found by visiting www.dy4.com or by making a literature request to Dy 4 Systems Inc., 333 Palladium Dr., Kanata, ON K2V 1A6, Canada. T: 613.599.9199 x 5168; F: 613.599.7777; E: sales@dy4.com.

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About Dy 4

Dy 4 Systems designs leading-edge Commercial-Off-The-Shelf embedded solutions. Based on open systems architectures, Dy 4’s boards, software and systems are deployed in mission-critical, high-reliability applications. Coupled with best-in-class products, Dy 4 also provides complete lifecycle management, program management and tailored customer support services. Dy 4 is a division of Force Computers, a Solectron company.

About Force Computers

Founded in 1981, Force Computers is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of open-standards-based and custom board- and system-level embedded computing solutions. These solutions address telecommunications, data communications, medical, industrial control and defense and aerospace markets. Force systems offer capabilities for Ultra Availability™, remote system management and platform management as well as feature telecom protocol software, telecom controllers and chassis compatible with NEBS Level 3 and ETSI building practices for 1U to 15U standard servers and custom integrated solutions. For boards, the company develops and manufactures leading-edge designs across a breadth of high-performance processors, high-bandwidth input/output interfaces and robust digital signal processors. Through the Dy 4 Systems division, Force leverages its expertise in hardening COTS products for ruggedized embedded applications. Certified ISO 9001, the company practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of its global operations. In 1997, along with parent company, Solectron Corp., Force won the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for manufacturing. Force’s company headquarters is located in Fremont, Calif. Force’s Europe and Asia-Pacific headquarters are located in Munich, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan, respectively.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. The royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS, compilers, MULTI and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments and Green Hills Probe offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom.

Legal

Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, MULTI and INTEGRITY are registered trademarks. The Green Hills Probe, Slingshot, AdaMULTI, EventAnalyzer, ResourceAnalyzer, ISIM, QuickStart, Integrate, G-Cover, GMART, GSTART and Safety Critical Products are trademarks of Green Hills Software Inc. All other trademarks (registered or otherwise) are the property of their respective companies. Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

Note: All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications subject to change without notice. Contact Force for current information.

For More Information Contact:
Green Hills Software, Inc. Lynn J. Robinson (805)965-6044 lynnr@ghs.com		Dy 4 Systems Ian Stalker (613) 254-5168 (Phone) (613) 599-7777 (Fax) ian.stalker@dy4.com