Blue Wave Systems Lands Record $2.2 Million Production Order.CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999--Blue Wave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS:BWSI) recently landed a record $2.2 million production order to supply DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive boards into a government funded program. Details of the program cannot be disclosed. The order calls for Blue Wave Systems to supply quad processor DSP boards based on Texas Instruments' TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales 320C40 floating point DSP. Shipments are expected to begin in the second calendar quarter, with the majority of shipments completing over the next 18 months. Blue Wave Systems is the industry leader in high performance digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). merchant boards. It was the first company to offer quad and octal A numbering system that uses eight digits. It is used as a shorthand method for representing binary characters that use six-bits. Each three bits (half a character) is converted into a single octal digit. Okta is Greek for 8. processor C40 VME boards and its highly successful line of C40 based products leads the industry in dollar volume and units shipped. Blue Wave Systems (NASDAQ/NMS:BWSI) is the world's leading supplier of DSP solutions and provides digital signal processing (DSP) boards and subsystems to more than one-half of the world's top 40 companies. Blue Wave Systems is principally involved in the development and sale of embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. DSP computers for the telecommunications, defense and measurement and instrumentation industries. The Company resulted from the merger of Mizar, Inc. and Loughborough Sound Images Ltd. in April 1998. |
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