Low-level component packaging improvements helped to reduce the plug-in card count for the basic processor module from five to one, Tsikalas says. Honeywell, for example, purchased the intellectual property rights to the AMD 29050 processor used in the AIMS-1 system and integrated this function into an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The AIMS bus interface unit to SAFEBus and several other components also were combined into a small package.