Altium Significantly Reduces Entry Point for 8051 Embedded Developers.Business/Technology Editors SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Altium's TASKING 8051 toolset (currently US$1,790) will be repriced at US$795 from March 1st Altium Limited Altium or Altium Limited is Australian CAD/CAE software company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX code: ALU). The company was founded in 1985 in Hobart, Tasmania, to fill a need in the electronics industry for easy to use, PC-based ECAD software. (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange : ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The high-speed CPU circuit that does calculating and comparing. Numbers are transferred from memory into the ALU for calculation, and the results are sent back into memory. Alphanumeric data are sent from memory into the ALU for comparing. ), a leading developer of Windows-based electronic design and development software, is pleased to announce a significant price reduction for their TASKING 8051 Software Development Toolsets. From March 1, 2002, the regular retail price for a TASKING 8051 toolset will be reduced from US$1,790 to just US$795 - a saving of nearly US$1,000. This new pricing emphasizes Altium's commitment to providing every electronic designer and developer with access to the best possible tools at an affordable price. "By repricing Repricing To change the price of an asset. In derivatives, it sometimes refers to the exchange of options of with different strike prices. repricing our 8051 toolsets so significantly, we are lowering the entry point for 8051 embedded developers by providing them with a fully functional, professional embedded software development toolset for under US$800," says Bruce Edwards, Executive Director, Altium. "The 8051 is a versatile and widely-used architecture and the TASKING 8051 toolset gives developers everything they need to produce tight, fast, and reliable code for today's demanding embedded applications." The TASKING 8051 toolset supports more 8051 variants than any other toolset in the market, and includes: --The award winning TASKING fully integrated Embedded Development Environment (EDE E·de A city of western Nigeria northeast of Ibadan. A center of Yoruba culture, it is in a cocoa-growing region. Population: 248,000. ) --ANSI C compiler, with additional MISRA C code checking --Assembler with Macro Preprocessor and linker/locator --Full ANSI C library set --CrossView Pro debugger supporting two execution environments: 1. Instruction set simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's 2. Retargetable ROM monitor (incl. RISM RISM Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (International Inventory of Musical Sources) RISM Reduced Instruction Set Model RISM Research Institute of Special Machinery 51 support) for evaluation board and custom hardware --Support for all leading emulator and RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. manufacturers --3 months free TASKING support With the new pricing for the TASKING 8051 toolset, Altium continues to break down the barriers to innovation and technological advancement by giving embedded designers access to the best value and the best technology in the industry. Availability The TASKING 8051 toolset v6.0 (TK008-024) is available for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, as well as PC/Linux and Workstations (Unix). The new US$795 pricing becomes effective on March 1, 2002. A demo version of the TASKING 8051 toolset is available for download from the TASKING website at http://www.tasking.com/8051/. For more product information, visit www.tasking.com or contact your local Altium Sales and Support Center. About Altium Limited Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), trading as Protel International Limited (ASX: PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ) prior to August 6, 2001, is a leading global developer and supplier of desktop Electronic Design Automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) and embedded software design tools for the Microsoft Windows environment. Since the Company's foundation in 1985 and its release of the world's first Microsoft Windows-based EDA tool in 1991, Altium has continued to apply the most advanced software design methods to provide powerful, easy-to-use and affordable design software to engineers and electronics designers worldwide. Altium's current product brands include Protel, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker and CAMtastic!. These products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and operates a number of sales and support offices in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe - as well as maintaining a large reseller network in all other major markets. More information about the Company and its products and services may be obtained from our website at http://www.altium.com. Altium, Altium Total Support, Protel, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker, CAMtastic!, Situs [Latin, Situation; location.] The place where a particular event occurs. For example, the situs of a crime is the place where it was committed; the situs of a trust is the location where the trustee performs his or her duties of managing the trust. and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited. 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