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ADVISORY/Pacific Consultants and TransDimension to Lead Demo of U.S. Army's Land Warrior Wearable Computer At Embedded Systems Conference.


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Embedded Systems Embedded systems

Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve.
 Conference

Booth No. 334

ADVISORY...for Wednesday Wednesday: see week.  (April 11)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001

TransDimension


Who:               Pacific Consultants LLC and TransDimension
                   (Booth No.334)

                   Pacific Consultants, Silicon Valley's leader in
                   product engineering analysis and a developer of the
                   high-profile Land Warrior, the U.S. Army's "Soldier
                   of the Future."

                   TransDimension, a California-based company that has
                   developed technology enabling direct connectivity
                   between peripherals and other devices through
                   Universal Serial Bus (USB).

What:              Justus M. Decher, vice president of business
                   development, Pacific Consultants and David Murray,
                   vice president of marketing, TransDimension will
                   give a live demonstration and presentation on the
                   Land Warrior's key technological components. These
                   include the on-soldier wearable computer, VoIP,
                   mesh radio, peer-to-peer secured intranet
                   communications, adhoc networking and proprietary
                   flex circuitry interconnects.

                   Decher will explain how Silicon Valley's fastest
                   growing engineering and analysis firm successfully
                   integrated the modular components of the Land
                   Warrior in record turnaround time.

                   Murray will discuss how and why the USB
                   functionality for the Land Warrior computer system
                   was provided by the company's embedded USB host
                   controller, the UHC124.

                   A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

When:              Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 1 p.m. sharp.

Where:             Room No. 258, South Hall, Second Floor
                   Embedded Systems Conference
                   Moscone Center, San Francisco

Interviews:        Justus M. Decher, vice president of business
                   development, Pacific Consultants LLC
                   David Murray, vice president of marketing,
                   TransDimension

Photo Opportunity: U.S. Army soldier in full combat gear wearing and
                   demonstrating the Land Warrior wearable computer

Media Contacts:    To arrange a one-on-one meeting with company
                   executives or to receive the full news announcement,
                   photos and event details, contact:

TransDimension:                      Pacific Consultants:
Kim Alexander or Kerry Schneider     Scott Tiernan or Kelley Lefmann
Lages & Associates                   McMullen Advertising
949/453-8080                         408/730-0490
kim@lages.com or kerry@lages.com     scott@mcmullenad.com
                                     kelley@mcmullenad.com

Justus M. Decher
Pacific Consultants LLC

650/691-6780
decher@pacificconsultants.com
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