Mercury Computer Systems Enhances Power, Flexibility and Expands Family of Ultra-Compact Rugged Computers for ISR Applications

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 23, 2009 - Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a leading provider of high-performance, embedded computing solutions for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, announced availability of four new modules for the Ensemble™ 1000 Series family of computing systems, at the UAS Payloads East Conference in the Washington, DC area. The new modules can be configured within the ultra-compact, rugged PowerBlock™ 50 chassis, supporting a range of flexible configurations for applications in mission computing, Radar signal processing, Wireless communications, and Video processing and fusion.

Powerful new processing options include the Intel EP80579 SoC (system-on-chip) device, running at clock speeds up to 1.20 GHz; the Xilinx® Virtex™-5 LX Series FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array); and the AMD M96 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), all supported by new SATA hard-disk and solid-state storage drives. These modules enhance Ensemble 1000 Series configurations which already include Freescale PowerQUICC™ processors and Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs, and provide a choice of solutions to accelerate customer applications.

“The innovative Ensemble 1000 systems address customer needs for advanced levels of embedded, real-time computing power in small, environmentally constrained platforms,” said Randy Dean, Vice President, Integrated Solutions at Mercury. “Our expanded module offering, available in the palm-sized, rugged PowerBlock 50 chassis, is ideally suited for air and ground vehicle platforms that are key to today’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.”

The architecture of the Ensemble 1000 Series allows flexible configurations of heterogeneous multiprocessor arrays, high-performance I/O, and local storage to meet application-specific requirements. Optimized for real-time processing, the Ensemble 1000 Series systems balance processing power with high-bandwidth interprocessor communications and external I/O bandwidth. A high-performance, any-to-any PCI Express switch fabric delivers high-throughput, non-blocking, serial switching among processing and I/O nodes. External I/O can be customized to accommodate virtually any type of digital or analog I/O.

The Ensemble 1000 Series systems are available now. For more information, visit Mercury at the UAS Payloads East Conference, June 23-24, at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in the Alexandria Historic District in Alexandria, Virginia; visit www.mc.com/ES1000; or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or info@mc.com.