Integrated Systems launches embedded industry's most complete tool suite; pRISM+ delivers ease-of-use, true openness, full-range scalability, and RTOS awareness.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1996--Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there ) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :INTS INTS Interdisciplinary Studies INTS International Neurotrauma Symposium INTS Integrated NIMA Telecomm System INTS Improved Night Targeting System ), the leading supplier of embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. solutions, introduced pRISM+, the embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. industry's first and only complete and truly open visual development suite for writing, compiling, debugging and analyzing real-time embedded applications. Based on an intuitive graphical development environment, pRISM+ represents the only single-vendor solution for every step of the development tool chain, and meets developers' definitive demands for ease-of-use, true openness, full-range scalability, 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. awareness, all with a native look and feel across all key Windows and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environments. "This is a tremendous breakthrough for the embedded industry," said David St. Charles, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Integrated Systems. "pRISM+ not only gives developers the most powerful, open, and complete tool chain for today's time-to-market demands, but also delivers a forward-looking open-systems roadmap for the future, while our competition paints itself into a proprietary corner." Today's complex embedded systems projects require development tools that extend beyond compilers, debuggers, and target utilities. pRISM+ is unique in the embedded industry -- it combines the multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. multiprocessor SpOTLIGHT graphical debugger, the ESp analysis tool, and a full range of project management tools normally found only in native development environments. Uniquely Open Via CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global pRISM+ is built on an object bus which conforms to the open industry-standard, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. ), and is the only embedded tools suite where openness is backed by an industry standard, rather than proprietary interfaces. CORBA is a middleware specification created and controlled by the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ), a consortium of nearly 700 leading software companies (see http://www.omg.com). The CORBA technology used in ISI's pRISM+ is provided through a partnership with IONA Technologies, Ltd., the leading provider of object-oriented middleware solutions. The IONA implementation also provides integration with the popular OLE and ActiveX component architecture from Microsoft. CORBA enables third-party tool integration with pRISM+, allowing developers to choose "best-of-class" tools. Any tool written to the CORBA specification will easily inferface to pRISM+. Adapting a tool to use CORBA is as easy as programming against a C++ library. According to Nick Epperson, director host tools marketing at Integrated Systems, "Through our experience, we've found that embedded systems developers have differing requirements for a development environment. The pRISM+ suite and the CORBA object bus gives users the choice to expand their systems as new technologies become available. This level of openness is the first of its kind in the embedded systems industry." In a separate release, ISI announced an object request broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. (ORB) for its pSOS real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. . A Heterogeneous Development Environment Enterprise Wide pRISM+'s "tools-centric" design makes it the industry's only heterogeneous development environment, allowing tool-to-tool and tool-to-target communication over local and wide area networks. This capability allows development projects to move seamlessly from single workstations to distribution across networked workstations with enterprise-wide access to shared targets and data. A project's pRISM+ development environment can be spread across both Windows and UNIX platforms. Comprehensive and Feature-Rich Tool Suite pRISM+ has the industry's most comprehensive set of management, analysis and visualization tools for highly effective embedded application development. These powerful and intuitive tools are the easiest tool-to-human interface ever developed for the embedded environment. Intuitive wizards help developers easily navigate through pRISM+'s tool options and target configurations to get systems up-and-running as quickly as possible. In addition, context-sensitive on-line help, and completely native Windows and UNIX interfaces give pRISM+ an extraordinarily short learning curve. Project Management The pRISM+ project management tools are derived from SNiFF+, an open object-oriented tool set developed by ISI subsidiary TakeFive Software that provides management, analysis, and browsing capabilities in the native environment for C, C++ and Java code. "Best in Class" Development Tools With the tremendous growth of the embedded development market there are an ever growing number of tools available. Companies have responded to this growth by becoming specialists in particular segments of the market. pRISM+ acknowledges this need for specialized tools with its industry standard, CORBA based, open architecture. pRISM+ gives the user the "best in class" tools available in the industry. With pRISM+'s unique, truly open architecture, these tools achieve levels of integration unattainable with competitors' environments. While competitors offer only integration with the target, pRISM+ opens up the entire set of tools in the environment to integration with each other, and with the target. pRISM+'s openness allows debuggers to integrate with browsers, visual analyzer tools, analysis/design tools, as well as a number of specialized tools that augment the development cycle. Analysis and Visualization Tools pRISM+ provides users with superior analysis tools including two types of browsers and a tool for comprehensive code interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. . One browser displays hierarchy and system inventories of pSOSystem kernel objects, while the other browser displays source level information through three distinct views: hierarchical, component analyzer, and cross-referencer. pRISM+'s ESp visual analysis tool graphs time-based behavior of target objects, which can in turn be traced directly back to the source code. With color-coded icons, ESp shows whether a task is running, idle, blocked or waiting for a semaphore semaphore (sĕm`əfôr'), device for the visible transmission of messages. The marine semaphore, used by day between ships or between a ship and the shore, consists essentially of a post at the top of which are two pivoted arms. . Context switches, task state transitions, interrupts and system calls can also easily be queried in an easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. interface. Pricing and Availability pRISM+ is available from Integrated Systems for Motorola 68K, PowerPC, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , i960 and x86 processors with ColdFire and ARM to follow. Pricing for pRISM+ starts around $7,500 for the Basic version, and $10,000 for the Professional version. Integrated Systems, Inc. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Integrated Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:INTS) is the leading worldwide provider of embedded technology for telecom/datacom, multimedia/consumer electronics, office and retail automation, automotive, and aerospace industries. pSOSystem is the operating software of choice for high-volume embedded applications that depend on reliability, high-performance, and low manufacturing costs. At more than twice the size of its nearest competitor, ISI reported $84.4 million total revenues for the fiscal year ending February 29, 1996, an increase of 45% over the previous year. Integrated Systems was founded in 1981, and the company's worldwide presence includes sales and service offices throughout Asia/Pacific, Europe, Canada, and the United States. -0- pRISM+ is a trademark and pSOSystem, pSOS, and SpOTLIGHT are registered trademarks of Integrated Systems, Inc. SNiFF+ is a trademark of TakeFive Software GmbH, Austria. All other products are the trademarks, service marks, or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Nick Epperson Integrated Systems, Inc. 408/542-1785 nepperson@isi.com http://www.isi.com/ or Martin Hayward Rainier Corporation 508/464-5302 marty@rainierco.com |
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