Marubun Corporation and Tokyo Electron Limited to Bundle Metrowerks CodeWarrior with Motorola MBX Board.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1997--Metrowerks Inc. (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 : MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK MWK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Malawi Kwacha. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) announced this week at 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. Conference West in San Jose that the company will be working with Motorola's main distributors in Japan, Marubun Corporation and Tokyo Electron Limited, to bundle Metrowerks' CodeWarrior for Embedded PowerPC tools with Motorola's MBX MBX Mail Box (Eudora filename extension) MBX Motherboard Express MBX Management Board Executive MBX Mlada Boleslav MBX Message Bus Exchange board for packaged kit sales in the Japanese market. The distribution agreements with Marubun and Tokyo Electron Limited are a direct result of Metrowerks' strategy to offer CodeWarrior embedded development tools for the RTOS/Windows CE market, proprietary OS market, and the embedded Java See PersonalJava. technology market. "The availability of the Motorola MBX board represents an exciting opportunity for embedded systems developers bringing new products to the Japanese embedded market Refers to custom-designed, computer-based devices and applications that perform a fixed set of tasks. It may refer to cellphones and other handhelds, network appliances (routers, access points, modems) and myriad consumer electronics products. ," said John Cheuck, president of Metrowerks Co., Limited in Tokyo, Japan. "We're happy to be working with Motorola, Marubun, and Tokyo Electron to bundle our award winning CodeWarrior tools with the MBX board to help develop this new opportunity." About Marubun Corporation Marubun Corporation is a leader in Japan for the marketing of semiconductors, lasers, communications, scientific instruments, space, and oceanography oceanography, study of the seas and oceans. The major divisions of oceanography include the geological study of the ocean floor (see plate tectonics) and features; physical oceanography, which is concerned with the physical attributes of the ocean water, such as . Marubun Corporation encompasses all aspects of marketing and sales for overseas manufacturers doing business in Japan and provides important application support, technical information, and systems upgrading and engineering support. About Tokyo Electron Limited Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL TEL Telephone TEL Telegram TEL Telugu (langauge) TEL Terrorist Exclusion List TEL Technology-Enhanced Learning TEL Transporter-Erector-Launcher TEL Tetra-Ethyl Lead TEL Team Deutsche Telekom ), the company that first introduced semiconductor production equipment and IC testers to Japan, has played an important role in establishing the Japanese electronics industry. Introducing the world's most advanced technology and combining it with original technology of its own, TEL provides high quality, unique products in almost every area of the advanced electronics field. About Motorola The Technical Products Division of the Motorola Computer Group (MCG) is a leading worldwide supplier of computer board products and computer systems platform products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in technical and embedded markets. Information about MCG's products is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.mot.com/computer. About Metrowerks Japan Metrowerks Co., Ltd. was established in Tokyo, Japan in August, 1996. It leads the company's efforts in the Asian region with a critical and strategic focus on the Japanese desktop computer, consumer electronics and embedded systems markets. About Metrowerks Embedded Systems Products CodeWarrior solutions for the embedded systems market start with the CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment , or "IDE," a unified environment available for both desktop and embedded application development. The CodeWarrior IDE contains a complete set of tools including class browsers, debuggers, editors, and a state-of-the-art project manager which obsoletes "make" files. CodeWarrior embedded tools all feature the CodeWarrior two-machine source-level debugger which plugs seamlessly into the CodeWarrior IDE and communicates with the new MetroTRK (Target Resident Kernel). MetroTRK, developed by Metrowerks and available in source to Metrowerks' licensees, is a software debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. monitor for use with CodeWarrior source-level debuggers. MetroTRK is suitable for use as a board-level software debugger, or, in its extended form, as an application-level debugger. CodeWarrior highly optimizing compilers, linkers and assemblers are available for the 68K, PowerPC, x86 and 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. families of microprocessors for C, C++, and Java. Metrowerks has already announced that in 1998, it will add support for the NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. VR/V8xx, ARM, and Hitachi SuperH families of microprocessors. CodeWarrior all-in-one programming tools are the foundation for Metrowerks' entry into the three major embedded markets: the proprietary OS market; the RTOS/Windows CE market; and the embedded Java technology market. With over 100 software engineers, Metrowerks invests 35% of the company's revenues in CodeWarrior research and development. Metrowerks has the resources to create state-of-the-art embedded tools. With the CodeWarrior IDE already used by over 100,000 registered desktop users in 75 countries, Metrowerks' CodeWarrior IDE development costs can be amortized over a very large number of users. This competitive advantage enables Metrowerks to sell CodeWarrior embedded tools at the ground-breaking price of under $1,000 per seat. -0- Note to Editors: Metrowerks, the Metrowerks logo and CodeWarrior are registered trademarks, and MetroTRK is a trademark of Metrowerks Inc. All other company and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies/holders, and are hereby recognized. Statements in this press release are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including successful and timely development of the product and customer acceptance of the product. CONTACT: Metrowerks Inc. Gordy Davies, 512/873-4797 gdavies@metrowerks.com www.metrowerks.com or Metrowerks Co., Limited (Japan) Hitomi Nakamura, +81-3-3780-6091 hitomi@metrowerks.com |
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