SPECTRUM OPENS SALES OFFICE IN CALIFORNIA TO MEET GROWING DSP OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE U.S.

San Jose, California, October 14, 1992 -- Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.,
a developer of DSP hardware and software for the PC, VME and SBus
environments, today opened a permanent sales and support office in
Mountain View, California. The new office allows Spectrum to better serve
it's customer base and major OEM accounts in California and Nevada as well
as offer better post sales support to existing customers. California and
Nevada account for over $1.2 million of Spectrum's sales for the last four
quarters.

The company has recruited Ed Kaczor as Sales Engineer to expand the
California/Nevada territory and manage the office on a day to day basis.
Ed recently held the position of Engineering Representative with Thorson
West, Spectrum's northern California distributor.

"Ed's knowledge of Spectrum's DSP products will enable Spectrum to fully
exploit the high concentration of technology customers in California and
expand into other regional markets", said Barry Jinks, Spectrum
President.

In a related announcement, Spectrum has recently hired Tim Marchant,
Workstation Product Manger, who will be responsible for managing the VASP
and VME product line for the company. Tim recently held the position of
Manager, Bids and Proposals at Dy-4, of Ottawa, Ontario and brings
extensive VME experience to his position at Spectrum.

Dan McCallum, previous Workstation Product Manager, will now take over the
position of PC Product Manager and will be responsible for new product
launches and spearheading multimedia strategies for Spectrum's Media-Link
product line.

"The addition of Tim Marchant completes our Business Development
Organization, and Dan will help place Spectrum in an excellent position to
meet new and exciting opportunities in the quickly growing DSP industry",
said Ross Mitchell. Business Development Manager at Spectrum.

Spectrum has been awarded the B.C. Trade Export Award for displaying
outstanding achievement in the export of its products. Each year, B.C.
Trade presents Export Awards to companies who have met the challenge of
the global marketplace. Spectrum will be presented its award at the Export
Award dinner and evening reception which will be hosted by the Honourable
Mike Harcourt, Premier of the Province of British Columbia. "The B.C.
Trade Export Award has received wide recognition in the business community
and Spectrum is delighted and honoured that we have been given the award",
said Barry Jinks, Spectrum President. Spectrum exported $5.9 million in
revenue in 1991.

Spectrum Signal Processing is a leading developer of system and processor,
software tools, hardware systems and other digital signal processing
products for the PC, VME, and SBus environments. These systems support
Digital Signal Processors from Analog Devices, AT&T, Motorola, Inc. and
Texas Instruments. Spectrum's unique modular DSP hardware allows users to
interface off-the-shelf peripheral I/O boards with the processor of their
choice via the DSP-LINK system expansion interface. Spectrum Signal
Processing Inc. is publicly traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange under
the symbol SSY and on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol SNL.

Spectrum Signal Processing Inc
Home Office:  8525 Baxter Place, 100 Production Court
              Burnaby, BC V5A 4V7 CANADA
              604-421-5422,  fax: 605-421-1764

New Sales Office: 800 El Camino Real West, Suite 180
                  Mountain View, CA 94040
                  415-903-2236,  fax: 415-903-2237

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