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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2010 -- General Micro Systems, Inc. (GMS), designer and manufacturer of embedded computing products for defense, aerospace and compute-intensive applications, and the leader in high-end Pentium®-based systems since 1986, has introduced a fast, powerful, rugged computer system that packs a ton of features and options into a small, easily mounted package. Golden Eye II, based on the upgradable Intel® Penryn processor, is a super lightweight, rugged system that brings unparalleled performance in harsh environments together with sophisticated graphics processing capabilities, making it ideal for vehicular and avionic programs.

Golden Eye II unleashes its muscle with up to a 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo® processor with 6 Mbytes of L2 Cache, supported by up to 8 Gbytes of memory (RAM) and up to 2 Tbytes of removable storage -- perfect specifications for a data logger/recorder or a video capture system. Golden Eye II is available in several standard configurations: S802-R with one removable Solid State Drive (SSD) offering up to 500 Gbytes of storage, and S802-R4, which has four removable SSDs for a total of 2 Tbytes of storage. S802-R4 units are available with a combination of drive bays for removable SSD and PCMCIA slots to accommodate Army legacy systems.

Designed to fill an ever-increasing system requirement of the military – smaller, lighter and lower power -- Golden Eye II (S802-R) is highly compact and lightweight, measuring only 5.25”x5.25”x2”, and weighing only 2.5 lbs. The unit literally can replace four 6U cards offering equivalent or better performance and its peak drain on the system’s power bus never exceeds 25 Watts. GMS’s patent-pending cooling design enables its systems to easily operate in environments from -40°C to +85°C. Because of its small footprint, about one-quarter the size of a standard ½ Air Transport Rack (ATR)-Short, Golden Eye II is ideal for UAVs and vetronics applications.

Golden Eye II was designed for rugged, military applications and is compliant to MIL-STD-810F, MIL-STD-704E and MIL-STD-461E. Completely validated and certified, Golden Eye II is in the Army CHS3 and CHS4 catalog and is involved in numerous awards for armored programs including WIN-T, the Army’s on-the-move, high-speed backbone communications network linking fighters on the battlefield with the Global Information Grid. Adding to its compliance,Golden Eye II uses GPS for time stamping every data packet within the stringent Army requirements of less than one micro second.

Not restricted to applications in benign environments, Golden Eye II is a sealed unit outfitted with Mil 38999 connectors. Because it is impervious to dust, dirt and salt, and is watertight down to 10 meters, the system can be mounted on the inside or the outside of any vehicle, including UAVs. Both S802-R and S802-R4 are available as fully sealed (S802-RS and S802-R4S) units that incorporate hermetically sealed connectors to ensure they stay watertight even when the cables and drives have been removed. The removable SSDs that are incorporated into these systems are also housed in a fully sealed, rugged case that remains watertight when removed from the system. Custom units are available for both versions with variants to meet specific envelope or system requirements.

The graphics performance and reliability of Golden Eye II are unsurpassed. With dual pipe support for high-performance RGB video (2048x1536 at 32-bit color), DVI-D and NTSC/PAL composite video, Golden Eye II offers a broad range of video output options delivering a new level of graphics performance to the embedded industry.

Four-channel video capture, two Dual Redundant 1553 channels, WiFi and BlueTooth give the unit a huge range of options for communications and interface.

Golden Eye II supports Windows® XP/XPE/7, Linux® and VxWorks® and Network Attached Storage (NAS). It can replace four servers with one Trusted Platform Module (TPM) virtual machine running up to four different operating systems.

At one-quarter the price of a similar ATR system, Golden Eye II (S802-R) starts under $10,000 in single quantities and ships in 60 days ARO.

For more information regarding GMS products please visit www.gms4sbc.com.

About General Micro Systems

Established in 1979, GMS operates from its corporate headquarters in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. GMS has become an industry leader in the design and manufacture of computing engines for VME, CompactPCI, custom and small form factor boards and systems for the embedded real-time markets. With an extensive standard line of computing engines based on Intel, Pentium®, Intel Atom™ and PowerPC® processors (IBM® and Motorola®), GMS has a 30-year reputation of bringing to market the most advanced technologies with many innovations such as mezzanine boards and CPU carriers. Although GMS’s base products center around standard LRUs, VME and CompactPCI bus architectures, most of the company’s revenue comes from custom to semi-custom products. GMS’s large array of products – from the lowest-priced and smallest SBC to super-performing SBCs for critical applications – leverage custom ASIC design, FPGA and other base technologies to bring the highest performance at the lowest cost possible.