Tacit Software to License Metrowerks Debugging Kernel; License for Tacit OS Designs on Motorola's Dragonball Microprocessor.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. ) and Tacit Software  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Inc. announced this week at the Embedded Systems Conference West in San Jose that Tacit Software is licensing MetroTRK for integration with Tacit OS. MetroTRK provides state-of-the-art source-level and low-level debugging services for Tacit OS, running on Motorola's MC68328 Dragonball microprocessor. MetroTRK is a modern debugging kernel that can either reside on a bareboard or be incorporated into an operating system kernel. It provides all the necessary low-level debugging services to the Metrowerks CodeWarrior source-level debuggers, which in turn can then 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. any process running on the Tacit OS on the Motorola Dragonball processor. "We're very pleased to license our MetroTRK technology to an advanced graphical, embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. such as Tacit OS," said Greg Galanos, president and chief technology officer, Metrowerks. "Providing proven, successful tools to business partners such as Tacit is an integral part of our business strategy to move our development environment aggressively into the embedded systems marketplace." "With the incredibly rapid growth of the embedded consumer electronics market, we need very special tools to help our customers develop a new generation of embedded, graphics rich applications and shorten their time to volume production," said Paul Mercer, chairman 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. , Tacit Software. "MetroTRK is one such tool for rapid product development, and we're glad we had the opportunity to work with Metrowerks to provide this kind of benefit for our customers." The licensing agreement with Tacit Software is 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 technology market. The Tacit OS platform includes the Tacit Kernel -- a preemptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. , 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. , multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading 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. with advanced power management, the Tacit Toolkit -- an advanced application framework and resources that shield applications from the underlying hardware for fast deployment of successful consumer applications across a broad range of product form factors and hardware designs, and Tacit Applications -- graphics rich applications that provide an intuitive user interface into advanced product features of a new generation of smart consumer products. The Motorola MC68328 Dragonball is a highly integrated processor of the 68K family designed to meet the specific requirements of today's portable consumer market, including minimum components count, small board space, low power consumption, and low system cost. About Tacit Software Tacit Software, a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , develops a next generation embedded software platform for the consumer electronics industry. Tacit Software's extensible platform enables a new class of embedded applications to be deployed across a variety of product form factors and hardware designs significantly reducing development time and costs for innovative, graphics rich applications. The company is focused on providing software for high volume, low cost consumer products with an emphasis on easy-to-use graphical interfaces. Tacit Software's technologies are well suited for small display devices such as phones, pagers, and handheld organizers. Additional information about Tacit Software is available on the internet at http://www.tacitsoftware.com . 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 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. CONTACT: Metrowerks Gordy Davies, 512/873-4797 gdavies@metrowerks.com www.metrowerks.com or Tacit Software Inc. Rich Rifredi, 408/996-8224 rifredi@tacitsoftware.com |
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