Silicon Systems’ Silicon Drive Secure Named Digital Technology of the Year by Electronic Design Magazine

 Magazine’s Editors Select SiliconDrive Secure as Significant to Advancing Embedded Security in Electronic Design

 ALISO VIEJO, Calif., February 21, 2007 — SiliconSystems, Inc., a world leader in advanced storage technology, today announced that its SiliconDrive Secure product family has been named digital technology of the year by Electronic Design Magazine in the magazine’s “Best Electronic Design” issue for 2006.  The issue, which was released in December, featured the technologies Electronic Design’s editors believed to be most significant to advancing electronic design.  Electronic Design selected SiliconDrive Secure from hundreds of briefings and demonstrations the magazine's editors participated in during 2006.  To secure sensitive data, the editors cited the simplicity and robustness of SiliconDrive Secure as well as its user-customizable security and ultra-fast data sanitization capabilities as key to helping embedded system designers easily integrate advanced security technologies.

 This recent honor came on the heels of SiliconSystems being named the second fastest growing company in Deloitte’s 2006 Technology Fast 500 North American program.  SiliconSystems CEO Michael Hajeck credits the company’s recent accolades to its patented SiliconDrive technology that is engineered to overcome the problems associated with hard drives and flash cards originally designed for consumer applications, and its superior design team for delivering the highest performance and reliability with the lowest total cost of storage ownership in the industry.

 “SiliconDrive Secure lowers the total cost of storage ownership by preventing application data and software IP theft, as well as protecting confidential data,” said Michael Hajeck, CEO at SiliconSystems. “Winning the digital technology of the year award by Electronic Design demonstrates the importance of our advanced storage technology within the industry and reinforces SiliconSystems’ position as an industry leader, technology innovator and market driver.”

SiliconDrive Secure was selected from a field of candidates that began with the hundreds of briefings and demonstrations Electronic Design's editors participated in throughout 2006.  By looking back at the key technologies covered in the magazine's pages and online during the year, as well as gauging reader feedback, the technical editors of Electronic Design chose the products and solutions they felt had the greatest impact on design in 2006.  The complete list of the year’s winners is available at www.electronicdesign.com/bestof2006.

About SiliconDrive Secure

SiliconDrive Secure is a comprehensive solution that delivers an unprecedented level of embedded storage system security by overcoming the design challenges and performance trade-offs inherent with hard drives and flash cards when used in Enterprise System OEM applications.  This low-power, highly-scalable storage solution enables designers to easily integrate user-selectable security options that protect application data and software IP from theft, data corruption, and accidental or malicious overwrites.  The security options in SiliconDrive Secure are ideal for applications requiring advanced levels of security such as data recorders, wearable and field computers, medical monitoring and diagnostic equipment, POS systems and voting machines. 

 Integrated technologies include:

SiKey – Ties SiliconDrive Secure to a specific host and/or software IP.

SiZone – Data zones with different security parameters.

SiSweep – Ultra-fast data erasure.

SiScrub – Ultra-fast data erasure followed by a programmed pattern.

SiPurge – Non-recoverable data erasure.

SiProtect – Software write protection for read-only access.

SiSecure – Password required for read and write access.

 About Electronic Design

The Authority on Emerging Technologies for Design Solutions, Electronic Design magazine and its website, http://www.electronicdesign.com reach the design engineers and engineering managers who put new technology and products to work in today's most dynamic markets.  A Penton Media (OTCBB:PTON - News) publication issued bi-weekly to a circulation of 141,000, Electronic Design delivers the largest print circulation of any design magazine serving the electronics OEM.

 About SiliconSystems

SiliconSystems is a world leader in advanced storage technology engineered exclusively for the high performance, high reliability, multi-year product lifecycle requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market.  The company’s patented SiliconDrive technology exceeds the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, military, industrial, interactive kiosk and medical markets.  SiliconSystems is based in Aliso Viejo, California.  Additional company and product information is available on the company’s website at www.siliconsystems.com.