Densitron Commences Shipping of Single Board Computer Which Is First Embedded Application To Include Atmel's

- Densitron's DPX-114 and DPX-115 Include the Atmel AT97SC3201 TPM

Embedded Systems Conference, BOSTON, September 13/PRNewswire/ --

Densitron, a leader in embedded PC products, has chosen AtmelCorporation's (Nasdaq: ATML) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for increasedhardware security in their new line of products. Like the PC market, embeddedcomputing applications, including gaming, require higher levels of security.

For this reason, the new DPX-114 and DPX-115 products will use the AtmelAT97SC3201 TPM chip. This security module provides a hardware solution forsuch functions as RSA encryption/decryption, secure key storage, and SHA(secure hash algorithm). These functions can be used for a variety ofsecurity related tasks, including locking down the software to the hardwareplatform, combating software tampering and piracy, managing digital copyrightand licensing, and safeguarding data transactions both internally or overnetworks.

Although the DPX-114 and DPX-115 are the first embedded single boardcomputers to come with an integrated TPM, the TPM and associated securityarchitecture are fast becoming a standard in the mainstream PC and embeddedmarkets. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), whose members include most of themajor companies in the PC and electronics industries, has established thesecurity architecture as an industry standard for application across fourbroad areas: risk management, e-commerce, asset management, and securitymonitoring and emergency response.

Densitron's products are used in a wide variety of embedded computingapplications but the company's main success and focus have been in gaming,particularly in video slot machines. The casino gaming industry, a fastgrowing industry in excess of US$200 billion worldwide, has always been asecurity conscious industry, and has employed many methods to ensure thesecurity and random outcome of the games.

The gaming industry uses standard encryption and hashing methods insoftware to ensure the integrity of the game code and to safeguard againsttampering, hacking or duplication of the games. With the TPM, these methodscan be greatly strengthened and enhanced, and some of the software overheadreduced by using the TPM hardware solution. In addition, TPMs provide systemdevelopers access to an affordable hardware module delivering a level ofsecurity that has been audited to international standards by independent andgovernment laboratories. This level of security is impractical to achievewith proprietary solutions whether they be implemented in hardware orsoftware. The TPM's random number generator is also very useful in gamingapplications. The high quality random number generator in the TPMincorporates several sophisticated hardware circuits along with internalfirmware to ensure that random numbers can never be guessed; a significantimprovement over the software pseudo-random number generators typically usedin the past.

According to Craig Stapleton, Densitron's Product Manager for computerproducts, "The enhanced performance and security capabilities available withAtmel's TPM on our new boards give embedded developers the features they needto help keep control of their intellectual property and safeguard operationand data. For the gaming industry we see huge benefits in using the TPMarchitecture both for standalone games and also for the growing markets fornetworked gambling, downloadable games and client-server based games forClass II tribal gaming. Atmel has provided us with excellent supportincluding software drivers and API to make integration of the TPM into ourcustomers' applications straightforward."

Atmel's Product Manager for secure products, Kevin Schutz comments, "It'sexciting to work with innovative companies such as Densitron who are willingto embrace industry standards like TCG. Extensive engineering has gone intomaking the TPM easy to use while still offering world-class data andcommunications protection. Incorporating this turnkey chip into a widevariety of embedded systems is a natural answer for embedded systemsdesigners."

About Densitron Corporation

Densitron Corporation is a leader in flat-panel display technologies andembedded PC products. Densitron designs, manufactures and sells industrialcomputers, flat-panel industrial monitors, graphic and alphanumeric LCDs,touch screen display assemblies, and public information display systems.

Densitron specializes in engineering the most cost-effective solution to meetits customers needs, and has the ability to design and manufacture turnkeysolutions for the handheld, medical, instrumentation, and industrial OEMmarkets in America, Asia and Europe. Visit us at http://www.densitron.com andhttp://www.gamingboards.com for more information on our products andservices. Densitron Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of DensitronTechnologies PLC (LSE: DSN), which is a publicly held company, traded on theLondon Stock Exchange.

About Atmel

Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose,California with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmeldesigns, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal,nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider ofsystem-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe,and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies.

About Trusted Computing Group

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an open, industry standardsorganization formed to develop, define, and promote open standards forhardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies, includinghardware building blocks and software interfaces, across multiple platforms,peripherals, and devices. TCG specifications enable more secure computingenvironments without compromising functional integrity, privacy, orindividual rights. The primary goal is to help users protect theirinformation assets (data, passwords, keys, etc.) from compromise due toexternal software attack and physical theft. For more information, go towww.trustedcomputinggroup.org.

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Information:

Densitron's product information may be retrieved at: http://www.densitron.com/computer

Atmel's product information may be retrieved at: http://www.atmel.com/products/Embedded/

Press Contact Densitron:

Craig Stapleton

Tel: +1-562-236-1805, Email: marketing@densitron.com

Press Contacts Atmel:

Vicki McCann, Director Marketing Communications - USA,

Tel: +1-719-540-1724, Email: vmccann@cso.atmel.com

Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe,

Tel: +33 1 30 60 70 68, Email: veronique.sablereau@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.densitron.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com

Source: Atmel Corporation

Contact: Craig Stapleton of Densitron, +1-562-236-1805, or marketing@densitron.com; or media, Vicki McCann, Director Marketing Communications - USA, +1-719-540-1724, or vmccann@cso.atmel.com; or Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe, +33 1 30 60 70 68, or veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, both of Atmel

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