Micrium's uC/Probe Receives 'Best of Show' Honors at the 2007 Freescale Technology Forum.Universal 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. Monitoring Tool Now Supports RS-232 Connectivity WESTON, Fla. -- Micrium, a leading provider of high quality 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. components, today announced that uC/Probe was awarded Freescale Technology Forum's (FTF's) Best of Show award for "Best in Class" Development Support at last week's FTF FTF Face To Face (in person) FTF Freescale Technology Forum FTF Fair Trade Federation FTF First Things First (Chattanooga, TN family strengthening program) FTF First to Find Americas. uC/Probe is an embedded systems monitoring tool that enables embedded developers to monitor embedded systems in a live environment. The FTF recognition builds on the accolades the product has received to date, including winning Venture Development Corporation's (VDC's) "Best of Show" at the Embedded Systems Conference in April, 2007. At the same time, the company announced that uC/Probe now offers an RS-232 interface for data collection, in addition to the original J-Tag interface made available in April. The addition of the RS-232 interface makes uC/Probe plug-and-play compatible with almost any embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. . "The FTF recognition of uC/Probe is a very significant achievement for us," stated Jean Labrosse, 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. of Micrium. "Earning critical industry recognition, both from FTF and VDC VDC Volts Direct Current VDC Venture Development Corporation VDC Vehicle Dynamic Control VDC Village Development Committee (Nepal) VDC Virtual Data Center VdC Verband der Cigarettenindustrie , validates the industry's need for this type of product and the concept itself of a universal monitoring tool." uC/Probe-STD is available now and sold on a per-seat basis for $495. A 30-day time-limited evaluation version can be downloaded from: http://www.micrium.com/products/probe/trialprobe.html. About uC/Probe uC/Probe is an embedded system monitoring tool that eliminates the need to stop an application in order to get system feedback, saving considerable development time by visually allowing users to see the internals of a running embedded application An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. . As a result, developers can ensure that the system is working properly or immediately identify system instabilities that are visible only when the system is live. uC/Probe works with compilers, any 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit CPUs as well as DSPs and, can be used with any toolchain that can generate a .ELF file, eliminating the need for custom programming or scripting and thus saving additional development time. Data is displayed graphically on a PC running Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. , and values can be numeric or shown as gauges, bar graphs, plots, graphs, LEDs, counters, or pie charts. The quality of the visuals is such that uC/Probe could be used to perform system diagnostics or as a final product user interface to allow field technicians to monitor the status of a device remotely. About Micrium Micrium provides high-quality embedded software components by way of engineer-friendly source code, unsurpassed documentation and customer support. The company's world-renowned 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. , the Micrium uC/OS-II, features the highest-quality source code available for today's embedded market. Micrium's products consistently shorten time-to-market throughout all product development cycles. For additional information on Micrium, please visit www.micrium.com. |
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