"We selected Green Hills Software because it provided the best toolset forthe MPC5554, our chosen processor," commented Torbjörn Helgesson, systemengineer, Computer System Architecture, Saab. "The project was jump-startedthanks to the use of INTEGRITY, which quickly gave us a working base forthe development. The integrated debugging and monitoring facilities withinthe operating system were particularly useful and the supplied boardsupport package formed the basis for our own tailored BSP."

"Green Hills Software's operating systems and tools have been widelyadopted in manned and unmanned aircraft in the civil and military sectorsdue to their proven reliability," said David Kleidermacher, chieftechnology officer, Green Hills Software. "We are pleased that Saab wasable to accelerate its UAV project with the assistance of our kernel-awareprobe and debugging tools."

About the Saab Skeldar

Saab's Skeldar is a fully autonomous, lightweight, unmanned helicopter. Itcan hover and perform vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) with a minimumof field preparation or additional equipment. The system is designed tosupport military as well as civil operations, national and internationalmissions, and to operate during day and night. Potential applicationsinclude target acquisition and designation, surveillance, reconnaissance,and electronic warfare. Weighing 150kg, Skeldar has a maximum speed of100km/h, 4-hour operating endurance and a range of up to 100km.

About the Green Hills Software INTEGRITY RTOS

Green Hills Software products have become the leading choice for theavionics industry. The INTEGRITY RTOS provides absolute reliability forembedded applications, allowing multiple applications to safely andsecurely operate on the same embedded computer. Memory partitioningprevents one application from accessing, stealing, or corrupting anotherapplication's memory or data. Time partitioning prevents a low criticalityapplication from stealing CPU time away from high criticality applicationson the same computer. Applications can be deployed at multiple safetylevels and new applications can be seamlessly added over time.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader indevice software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS)for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® andvelOSity(TM) real-time operating systems, µ-velOSity(TM) microkernel,IPv6-ready TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer 3 routing, compilers,MULTI® and AdaMULTI(TM) integrated development environments,DoubleCheck(TM) integrated static analyzer and TimeMachine(TM) tool suiteoffer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embeddedand high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered inSanta Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. VisitGreen Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

About Saab

Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services andsolutions ranging from military defence to civil security. Saab hasoperations and employees on all continents and constantly develops, adoptsand improves new technology to meet customers' changing needs.

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, µ-velOSity,AdaMULTI, DoubleCheck and TimeMachine are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/orinternationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respectiveowners.

Contact:Green Hills Software, Inc.Barbel French805-965-6044bfrench@ghs.com