MetaWare and QNX Team Up to Deliver Robust, Integrated Toolset.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2001 Addressing High-Availability, Multi-Processor Networking Equipment With Tools for Optimized Performance and Reliability MetaWare Incorporated(R), developers of quality tools empowering embedded applications, and QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. Software Systems, developers of highly scalable OS technology for next-generation broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , have entered into an agreement to provide an integrated toolset for designers of carrier-grade data and optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. equipment. Now, developers using MetaWare(R)'s IDE, compiler and debugger toolset can benefit from integrated support for the QNX(R) 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. with its fault-tolerant architecture and proven realtime capabilities. The direct RTOS awareness found in the SeeCode(TM) debugger gives developers visibility into QNX constructs such as process and thread information, memory blocks, and messages. Now developers using the MetaWare toolset along with the QNX RTOS can display registers, local variables or call stack In computer science, a call stack is a special stack which stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program. (The active subroutines are those which have been called but have not yet completed execution by returning. for multiple threads concurrently. Additionally, the Coordinated Multi-Processor Debugging (CMPD CMPD Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (Charlotte, NC) CMPD Compound CMPD Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorder CMPD Campomelic Dysplasia CMPD Custom Microcomputer Program Design ) facility for SeeCode enables developers to 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. multi-processor applications of up to 256 processors in a single debugging session. CMPD also allows developers to interface with various combinations of processor families - a real advantage when developing and debugging complex networking devices. "We expect that our customers will choose the MetaWare toolset for the same reasons they choose the QNX RTOS: because it enables them to optimize reliability and performance for both single-processor devices and high-availability, multi-processor systems. Our tests all indicate that MetaWare has a mature and robust solution for these requirements," said Linda Campbell, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at QNX Software Systems. "MetaWare has also done a fantastic job of enhancing their toolset, giving our developers direct visibility into the QNX RTOS, allowing for more efficient development and debugging, and faster time to market." MetaWare's High C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ compiler is available for a wide range of target processors, including ARM(R), StrongARM, XScale, 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. and PowerPC. "Through this partnership with QNX, we validated our High C/C++ compiler to perform direct compilation of the QNX kernel," said Steve Cozzolino, Manager of the MetaWare Alliance Program (MAP). "With SeeCode connected to the QNX debug agent, developers can halt selected tasks while others continue to run. This kind of seamless environment will increase efficiency for developers using the QNX RTOS along with our tools." Availability The MetaWare toolset with direct QNX RTOS-awareness is expected to ship in Q2 2001. About MetaWare Incorporated Since 1979 MetaWare has been developing sophisticated compilers and development tools, including the SeeCode debugger, which can debug multi-processor applications. MetaWare creates optimizing C/C++ compilers for end-users, resellers, and OEMs for developing embedded applications based on, among other architectures, ARC(TM), ARM(R), StrongARM(R), XScale(R), MIPS(R), PowerPC(TM), picoJava(TM), and x86 microprocessors using Windows(TM) and Solaris(TM) hosts. MetaWare is a subsidiary of ARC International. MetaWare - Empowering Embedded Applications. About QNX Software Systems Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems is the industry leader in realtime, microkernel (1) The part of an operating system that is specialized for the hardware it is running in. The other components of the OS interact with the microkernel in a message-based relationship and do not have to be rewritten when the OS is ported to a new platform. OS technology. The company has established a strong customer base in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, consumer electronics, transportation, medical instrumentation, process control, and point-of-sale. QNX products are distributed in over 100 countries worldwide. Visit www.qnx.com. Note to Editors: MetaWare, the MetaWare logo, and High C are registered trademarks, and High C/C++, High C++, and SeeCode are trademarks of MetaWare Incorporated. ARC Cores is a tradename of ARC Cores Inc and ARC International (UK) Ltd. QNX is a registered trademark of QNX Software Systems Ltd. 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