Excel Software announced Android License SDK 1.0 for Android developers. The software development kit (SDK) applies QuickLicense technology to any Android application. A developer on a Mac or Windows computer uses QuickLicense to configure the license and generate a Ticket file. The Ticket file and two Java code files are added to an Android development project. The Android application is distributed with the royalty-free LicenseManager to handle the licensing process.

Android License SDK supports a variety of license types, activation processes, advanced features and customization options. Trial licenses can be limited to a specified number of application launches or number of days, hours or minutes. An expired license can be extended to any date with a secure Expiration Code. Product licenses can be activated for a specific device or securely moved between devices with the License Release and License Restore features.

Android License SDK supports both a manual or online activation process. With a manual activation process, the user will see an Activation dialog on first launch. The user provides a Request Number to the vendor and is given a computer specific Activation Code. With automated online activation, the user is given a Serial Number during the purchase process. On first launch the Serial Number and user entered data is delivered to a server like Safe Activation for instant activation.

Other license types include dynamic, Internet dependent and subscription licenses. A subscription license allows use of an application based on a monthly or annual fee. Subscription licenses can be automatically managed from a vendor account on Safe Activation.

Multiple license types can be applied to the same application to accommodate different types of users. A Try/Buy license configured with QuickLicense Pro enables the user to download and install once, then try the Android application for some time period before purchasing a Serial Number. A dual Student/Teacher license allows different capabilities to be enabled based on which license is activated.

While one license command is sufficient for many applications, LicenseManager supports dozens of command strings to access all licensing features available in the QuickLicense system. Runtime commands include license release, restore, reset, suspend, remote enabling of features, field read and write, plus data send and receive through the activation server.

Android License SDK consists of two Java source files and User Guide with instructions on how to bind any Android application to the LicenseManager application and developer assigned license. The SendMessage application makes it easy to emulate a protected application by sending commands to the LicenseManager. A sample application with source code is included.

A Single User License of Android License SDK 1.0 at $395 includes royalty-free runtime distribution rights for any number of protected products or licenses. An Android developer also needs QuickLicense for Mac or Windows starting at $595 to configure licenses. Excel Software offers a free online video library to learn more about software protection, licensing and automated order processing.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

* Latest version of Wind River Test Management now features Android software testing capabilities and content.

* Wind River Test Management includes integrated fuzz testing packages for greater testing for security.

* Customers can speed their testing process using new out-of-the-box pre-packaged content and automated testing processes.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Oct. 9, 2012 – Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, a fully automated software testing optimization framework that allows customers to identify high risk areas of production code, prioritize quality assurance (QA) activities and optimize engineering resources. Wind River Test Management now features Android software testing capabilities as well as enhanced testing for security.

Wind River Test Management has added testing software to streamline and automate the testing process for Android-based devices. Using Wind River Test Management, operators, device manufacturers, independent software vendors and silicon providers in need of testing Android-based devices can reduce the time and cost to develop devices, improve software quality and stability, and ensure compliance with the Android Compatibility Test Suite. Wind River Test Management can automate thousands of heterogeneous Android tests and then consolidate the results into a single uniform database, making analysis of the results faster and more accurate.

Providing enhanced testing for security, Wind River Test Management now includes a built-in fuzz testing package that supports a wide variety of network protocols. These packages allow testers to add security testing into their normal QA routine without the need for special hardware or domain expertise. Additionally, Wind River Test Management includes enhanced usability and manageability capabilities with a simplified user interface and fuller integration with the development lifecycle ecosystem.

The latest version of the Wind River UX Test Development Kit is also now available and features easier testing with patchless execution and added support for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The kit enables the creation of reusable, change-resistant automated test scripts for Android devices. The automated execution of these real-world tests can replace significant manual testing. Test scripts authored using UX Test Development Kit are fully managed and automatically executed using Wind River Test Management.

“With the growth of Android and increasing concerns around security, it’s important to meet the evolving needs of our customers,” said Ido Sarig, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. “With a wealth of out-of-the-box test content including security testing features and support across Linux, VxWorks and now Android, Wind River Test Management helps customers strengthen and accelerate their testing process and time to market.”

“Getting medical devices FDA-approved in a timely manner is always a challenge,” said Lutz Kersten, department manager of R&D Surgical Therapy Software at Olympus. “Wind River Test Management has extended and improved our test strategy enabling us to reduce the time to get regulatory submission by 20%, and cut our overall costs by 15%.”

Additionally, Wind River offers global, CMMI-certified Test Management professional services that combine expertise in development methodologies and project implementation with experience in safety- and security-critical applications. Wind River assists customers in optimizing processes and integrating Wind River Test Management into existing quality management systems to improve first-time quality and return on investment.

Wind River has also recently been rated a ‘Transformational’ vendor in the testing market by analyst firm voke.1 Wind River Test Management is available now and more information can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/test-management-5/.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 1 billion products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in more than 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or on Facebook.

1 voke, Market Mover Array™ Report for Testing Platforms, 2012

Naarden, The Netherlands – Assistance Software and SaaSplaza announced their cooperation on hosting and reselling Assistance PSA for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011TM.

SaaSplaza is a Cloud provider that offers the infrastructure to deliver Assistance PSA in the Cloud. By signing the Agreement Assistance Software completes the multiple deployment options of Assistance PSA – on premise, on line and SaaS.

With this agreement Assistance Software will be able to offer their partners and the partners of SaaSplaza a complete cloud solution for Microsoft CRM 2011, Assistance PSA and Microsoft Exchange with Sharepoint.

Partners benefit from the instant and flexible selling opportunities to their client from the SaaS Cloud for CRM solutions 2011.

Different options to package the PSA Software Solutions in a complete Microsoft CRM hosted environment are possible. Partners will be invoiced by SaaSplaza at the end of every month, based on the number of registered named users that month.

With this “One Stop Shop” concept the advantage for the client is also obvious; one contact for all your cloud services.

Quote Martijn van der Hoeden Assistance Software:

“We are pleased to offer our Partners the possibility to sell a complete cloud solution for Microsoft CRM 2011, Assistance PSA and Microsoft Exchange directly from the SaaSplaza Cloud according the one “Stop Shop concept””

Quote Herbert Prooy, SaaSplaza:

“We are proud that Assistance Software choose SaaSplaza as their Cloud Platform” says Herb Prooy “we are very complementary in our global ambitions and our large international network of Microsoft Dynamics partners”

About SaaSplaza:

SaaSplaza is the global leader in Cloud-based Dynamics and ERP/CRM solutions.

Microsoft’s 2011 US ERP Hosting Partner of the Year and a SAS70 Type II certified company, SaaSplaza has been running solutions in the Cloud for more than 12 years, offering unparalleled customizability, bandwidth, and uptime. And with offices, data centers, and personnel in the Netherlands, China, California, Singapore, Germany, and Virginia, SaaSplaza is the only truly global Cloud company.

Bringing together software suppliers and implementation partners for the transparent supply of Cloud-based solutions—and respecting the unique position of each in their local markets—SaaSplaza addresses the ERP and CRM needs of most every vertical. Presently, more than 400 ISVs and VARs throughout the United States, EMEA, and ASIAPAC are working together on SaaSplaza. Daily, they deliver business-critical Cloud solutions to some one million end-users in more than 55 countries. Annually, they generate more than $100 million in revenue on SaaSplaza.

For more information, visit www.saasplaza.com.

About Assistance Software:

Assistance Software, Certified Microsoft Gold Partner and ISV, is a leading IT innovator in the professional services industry that makes business processes transparent.

Founded in 1990 by Martijn van der Hoeden, Assistance Software introduced its innovative IT solutions in the architecture and engineering sector, where they built a solid position as national market leader.

Using the expertise they acquired, Assistance Software now focuses on full service solutions to include all professional services companies on a global scale. In short: those sectors where the optimum deployment of staff and their knowledge determines the results.

In 2011 Assistance Software introduced Assistance PSA for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. A completely integrated solution for contemporary information workers. Developed for the latest technology, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 platform. Assistance PSA offers a full integration with any financial platform. For more information please visit www.assistancesoftware.com

Company website: www.assistancesoftware.com

Excel Software today shipped QuickLicense 6.0 to protect and license software using either a programming command call or the AddLicense wrapping tool. The AddLicense tool adds multiple protection layers and allows data files to be embeded within the executable. The protected application is compatible with third-party code signing tools.

The QuickLicense Windows edition has new API commands, interfaces and both 32 and 64-bit EXE and DLL runtimes. New sample code is included for Visual Basic, C#, C++, Objective-C, Delphi, REALbasic, Java and other programming languages. The AddLicense wrapping tool generates protected applications as 32-bit, 64-bit or FAT 32/64-bit EXEs that run on any 32 or 64-bit Windows XP, Vista or 7 computer at native speed.

The QuickLicense MacOSX edition has new AddLicense features, API commands and runtime interfaces. The Carbon runtime is backwards compatible with older Mac computers while the new Cocoa runtime is faster and 94% smaller.

New licensing features include the ability to change the expiration date of a timed license with a customer specific Expiration Code, timed licenses for days, hours or minutes, Unicode runtime support to handle human language customizations and a new License Meter feature to manage floating licenses for in-house purchased software.

Supported license types include Trial, Product, Try/Buy, Subscription, Floating and Dynamic licenses with a manual, semi-automated or fully automated activation process. Advanced features include custom activation, license release, license restore, license suspend, license reset, remote feature enable and other activation services. QuickLicense compatible products include Safe Activation, WebActivation, DocProtect, AirLicense, OfficeProtect, LicenseSupport and QuickLicense Server.

QuickLicense 6 is $595 for the Standard edition or $995 for the Pro edition on either Mac or Windows. The package includes an integrated help system, programming code examples, AddLicense wrapping tool, SendMessage testing tool, tutorials, step-by-step license setup instructions and a PDF or printed user guide. A QuickLicense purchase includes royalty-free runtime distribution rights for any number of products or licenses on that computer platform.

Excel Software today unveiled student editions of its flagship MacA&D and WinA&D tools for software design. With full-featured support of all major software design methods, college students can now experience the same tools used by professional software developers worldwide.

For object-oriented design, the student can draw all 14 major diagram types specified by UML 2.2. For structured analysis and design, create multi-level data flow diagrams, process specifications, structure charts and state models. For database design, draw data models with SQL details, triggers and constraints. Model multi-threaded systems with system architecture and task diagrams. The system model and simulation capabilities allow a causal loop diagram to be populated with variables and equations to generate and graph the behavior of complex systems over time.

Tool capabilities include requirements management, HTML report generation plus export of diagrams and tables to popular image formats and PDF documents. Generate code from models for popular programming languages including C, C#, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Java, Delphi, REALbasic, Ada and SQL.

Any student currently enrolled at a university is eligible to purchase the WinA&D Standard Student, WinA&D Desktop Student, WinA&D Developer Student, MacA&D Standard Student, MacA&D Desktop Student or MacA&D Developer Student edition at an attractive price. The Student edition is a one-year license that allows the software to be used on one computer.

Student editions include the full software and PDF manual set, sample projects, step-by-step tutorials and integrated application help. Price and eligibility requirements, starting at just $49 are provided on the Student Edition web page at www.excelsoftware.com.

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Embedded ALM solution applies Agile rapid development capabilities to rigorous certification processes

Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose, CA – April 27, 2010. LDRA (Booth 2208), the leading provider of automated software verification tools, and Codice Software, developer of the Plastic SCM, the next-generation software change and configuration management solution, have partnered to provide Agile development capability to Embed-X, the only ALM product focused on the development and verification of critical, embedded software systems. Although Agile development has previously been considered at cross-purposes with safety-critical software development, LDRA and Codice have solved these challenges by incorporating Plastic SCM’s Agile benefits into the Embed-X application lifecycle management solution.

Plastic SCM is the next-generation of SCCM software designed for today’s demanding development environments supporting agile and parallel methodologies in often distributed frameworks. The capabilities of Plastic SCM enhance the Embed-X solution and make Codice Software a valuable strategic partner for LDRA. Plastic SCM accurately tracks and maps the complete development history within Embed-X, giving developers simple click-through access to critical details. Plastic SCM’s task-focused management tracks software change and configuration over the entire project lifecycle from requirements and design through analysis, code development and testing, coordinating version control and software branching and merging as the development project evolves. With an eye to interoperability across multiple development platforms, Plastic SCM offers a small footprint and can merge information among geographically distributed development teams—a characteristic well-suited to the development of modern complex critical software in vertical markets such as avionics, defense, automotive, medical, telecom, and networking.

Known for its rapid prototyping and ability to flexibly adapt to system changes during the development process, Agile development creates code iteratively, detailing all phases of design from requirements and coding, through analysis and test for small increments of code produced over 2–4 week periods. By detailing only a small increment at a time and completing that section of code, a team can identify and correct errors as they go along rather than allowing fundamental system errors to repeatedly propagate throughout the full project development cycle. Agile’s iterative, test-driven development methodology significantly improves code quality while saving the cost and time caused by delayed error identification. Boeing and Airbus maintain that errors not identified until first flight cost 900 times more to correct.

“Rapidly accelerating software complexity and ballooning code volume further complicate the certification of a critical device,” noted Pablo Santos, CEO of Codice Software. “Embed-X with Plastic SCM eases that difficulty by automating the enormous challenge of tracking the hundreds of thousands of changes that are part of every software project. The marriage of Plastic SCM and Embed-X allows companies to comprehensively, efficiently and reliably track, test and trace critical embedded software development.”

“Embed-X gives companies a way to cut the spiralling system costs endemic to today’s development processes,” stated Ian Hennell, LDRA Operations Director. “Not only can errors be identified in the early stages since testing begins almost immediately, but the licensing agreement that we have put together with Codice and other Embed-X partners means that the entire development team can get onboard for substantially less than it would have previously cost for the individual licenses. We are extending our commitment to building high-quality software in very practical terms.”

With this release, Embed-X will support Agile development through rapid prototyping, extensive branching/merging, version controls, role-based project task assignments, and empirical process controls for actual tasks, assets produced and their required sequencing. Through its Lifecycle Traceability Matrix (LTX), Embed-X maintains the multitude of software versions and artefacts, plus all the change items that occur in Agile development, while still providing the extensive traceability, verification and accountability demanded by critical software certifications. These multiple challenges are met by Embed-X LTX and the persistence mechanism designed for Embed-X by Codice Software.

Embed-X is geared to meet the demands of safety-critical development standards. Incorporating LDRA’s patent-pending verification management technology, Embed-X will help system engineering, development and production organizations by coherently tracing requirements through static and dynamic analysis to unit testing and system verification to achieve a fully certified application. Embed-X offers compliance with critical standards such as DO-178B and MISRA, and security standards, such as CERT C and the Homeland Security Agency’s Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE).

Industries giants, such as Intel, predict that certification volume of industrial devices in rail, medical and manufacturing will climb from today’s less than 5% to 30% by 2013. This steep increase in certification requirements at the embedded level will drive the need for embedded process management. By integrating full certification support into the Embed-X embedded process management, developers gain a graphical workflow engine that allows the product owner to define project objectives, the tasks to be performed, the required scheduling and sequencing, as well as all project roles and the assets that must be produced.

“LDRA has an unrivalled track record for certification and critical development support in avionics, defense, automotive and medical markets,” added Hennell. “We bring 35 years of embedded expertise to Embed-X, ensuring that at the micro-detail level, developers can most efficiently and effectively manage all development aspects of their embedded certified device from requirements through analysis and testing to final certification.”

A demonstration of Embed-X will be available at the LDRA booth #2208 of Embedded Systems Conference.

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About LDRA

For more than thirty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software used for the automation of code analysis and software testing of safety-critical applications. The LDRA tool suite is used in aerospace, space and defense technology as well as the nuclear energy and automotive industries. Through the use of the LDRA tool suite, companies ensure that their systems are built in accordance with prescribed standards and are durable and reliable in use. The LDRA tool suite is available for a variety of programming languages and supports a wide range of host and target platforms. LDRA is represented world-wide with its head office in the UK and subsidiaries in the USA as well as through an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

About Codice Software

Codice Software is a privately held software development company focused on the design and distribution of next-generation software control and configuration management (SCCM) solutions. The company’s mission is to speed and secure software development, supporting agile and parallel methodologies in local and distributed environments, for companies worldwide with development teams ranging from five to 500 members. Codice provides development teams with a robust, high-end SCM product, implementing enterprise-class functionality, while making next-generation SCM affordable and widely available to any-sized organization.

Codice Software’s international marketing and sales headquarters are located in Silicon Valley, with additional offices across North America and a network of international distributors. For more information, please visit www.codicesoftware.com.

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Geotest- Marvin Test Systems, a global producer of PXI and PC-Based test equipment and test solutions, and Pickering Interfaces, a global market innovator in signal switching and conditioning, announced today that they are embarking on a Strategic Alliance program.

IRVINE, CA AND CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX, ENGLAND, March 2010 — In an effort to enhance customer’s choices and options when designing PXI systems, Geotest- Marvin Test Systems, a global producer of PXI and PC-Based test equipment and test solutions, and Pickering Interfaces, a global market innovator in signal switching and conditioning, announced today that they are embarking on a Strategic Alliance program.

An initial element of this program has been the creation of a joint web site, www.PXI4test.com, designed to educate ATE users about the broad range of test products offered by both companies and to help users choose the best products for their application. The Alliance combines Geotest’s expertise in Digital test, system integration and ATE software with the unmatched breadth of Pickering’s catalog of PXI Switching and Signal Conditioning products.

Loofie Gutterman, President of Geotest-Marvin Test Systems said that “the Alliance will help customers achieve their goal of developing high-performance, cost-effective PXI systems by offering a complete range of industry-leading products from multiple vendors using a single web site” .

Keith Moore, Managing Director of Pickering Interfaces added “Our Alliance is all about simplifying our customer’s research and providing a ‘one-stop shopping experience’. PXI4test.com provides access to products, PXI-related web sites, and other tools to educate customers to the broad range of applications supported by PXI”.

In addition to the website, Geotest and Pickering share common sales channels in much of the US, Asia, and Europe, simplifying the user’s selection and procurement process for PXI products. Educational programs will also be available on the web and via regional seminars.

For more information, go to www.PXI4test.com or email info@PXI4test.com

About Geotest Marvin Test Systems

A subsidiary of the Marvin Group (Inglewood, CA) Geotest -Marvin Test Systems, Inc. is a global supplier of PXI and PC-based test products, systems, and solutions. Geotest’s products and systems are used worldwide in thousands of aerospace, semiconductors, communications, medical, industrial, and military test applications.

About Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces is a global market innovator in signal switching and conditioning for a broad range of applications and architectures, with the largest range of switching cards in the industry for PXI, LXI, PCI, VXI and GPIB applications. Pickering Interfaces has provided solutions to both commercial and military applications. In addition, Pickering’s range of instrumentation provides innovative test solutions to users and integrators of modular test systems

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 12th January 2010. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has announced that the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) in the United Kingdom has chosen Artisan Studio for a new project requiring compliance with the Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework (MODAF) and recently standardized UPDM Profile.

“This is a strategic sale for us as DSTL’s choice of Artisan Studio follows an industry-wide re-evaluation of MODAF and UPDM-capable development tools,” said James B. Gambrell, President and CEO at Artisan Software Tools. “Artisan Studio was the first UPDM design tool released following the recent standardization of UPDM by the OMG. Our leading role in the OMG’s standardization process for UPDM enabled us to deliver our UPDM product at precisely the same time as the finalization of the standard.”

DSTL is an agency of the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) and its center of scientific excellence. It houses one of the largest groups of scientists and engineers in public service in the UK. With its brief to ensure that the UK Government and Armed Forces have access to world-class scientific advice, DSTL delivers defense research, specialist technical services and the ability to track global technological developments to support procurement decisions, defense policy making and operations.

“DSTL takes a systems engineering approach to its work in order to provide the best possible solutions to its customers and is tasked with introducing new, innovative technologies to best meet design issues and budgets,” commented Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Marketing of Artisan Software Tools. “Artisan Studio was created to specifically address the needs of systems developers and is constantly being improved to provide the timely introduction of innovative new features to meet today’s design requirements. In this respect, the recently introduced Version 7.1 of Artisan Studio provides a market leading implementation of MODAF based on the new OMG UPDM standard.”

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

Mountain View, California – Jan. 11, 2010 – 6WIND, the leading provider of high-performance packet processing embedded software for networking and telecommunications equipment, and Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, today announced an expansion of their technology partnership for joint multicore-based solutions. As part of the expansion, 6WIND will further integrate its 6WINDGate™ embedded networking software for multicore with Emerson Network Power AdvancedTCA® (ATCA®) blades based on Cavium Networks OCTEON™ processors. The first expanded integration of 6WINDGate features Emerson Network Power’s ATCA-9305, an ATCA blade based on dual OCTEON CN5860 processors and the Freescale™ Semiconductor MPC8548 management processor.

The solutions will be supported with newly enhanced sales and marketing efforts by Emerson Network Power and 6WIND, with the objective of providing customers with greater integrated solutions that can help accelerate multicore-based designs.

The ATCA-9305 is targeted at security and packet-processing applications in the wireless and telecommunications transport markets. This market includes data plane packet processing, security co-processing, video compression and pattern matching. The ATCA-9305 complies with the SCOPE recommended profile for central office ATCA systems, CP-TA rules for interoperability with ATCA shelves and the PICMG® 3.0 ATCA specifications.

The ATCA-9305 is designed in the tradition of Emerson Network Power’s ATCA product portfolio. Reliability, high availability and field maintainability are the key means for reducing operational expenses. Capital expense is lowered drastically at the system level by introducing a new class of performance density, based on state-of-the-art multicore packet processing technologies. It will use 6WINDGate embedded networking software to greatly expedite the multicore design of embedded networking functionality and integration of applications running on this multicore-based architecture.

“Our joint solutions are already in use with a variety of tier one customers helping them realize powerful networking solutions with simplified design and development processes,” commented Dick DuBois, senior vice president, Embedded Computing & Power, Emerson Network Power. “Our increased collaboration will provide a broader spectrum of joint and tightly integrated solutions in terms of technology, sales and support.”

6WINDGate is 6WIND’s high-performance packet processing embedded software solution for networking and telecommunications equipment. With optimized support for multicore platforms from multiple embedded processor suppliers, 6WINDGate allows system developers to focus their design efforts on their own value-added software components, with 6WINDGate implementing the low-level packet processing and data plane functions. This allows customers to maximize the system-level performance of their platform while enjoying the ability to seamlessly scale from single-core systems to more complex multicore architectures. 6WINDGate provides several key advantages for telecommunications, security and networking equipment manufacturers, as well as for embedded processor suppliers:

• Maximizes the ability to benefit from performance gains offered by multicore processors

• Scales from one to any number of cores using simple-to-implement differing profiles

• Enables seamless integration of the multicore executive environment (MCEE) with any Linux architecture using an open and standards-based approach

• Off-the-shelf ready with a complete set of networking features expedites networking design times by as much as 70 percent

• Complete XML-based manageability eases integration of networking, applications and value-added features

• Maximizes customers’ reuse of existing software

• Reduces development cycles and design time leading to cost reductions and creating a strong value proposition for telecommunications, security and networking equipment manufactures, and chipset providers

The ATCA-9305 uses the 6WINDGate SDS profile for highest performance. 6WINDGate provides a complete ready-to-use networking solution including dual-IP networking protocols, comprehensive L2/L3 networking functions, unicast and multicast forwarding, virtual routing, tunneling, IPsec via built-in crypto processors, stateful firewall, QoS, NAT, and a VNB framework designed to easily integrate new interfaces such as WiMAX or L2 protocols. 6WINDGate can run as a pure open source or commercial Linux solution (ADS and EDS) or in conjunction with the MCEE (SDS) to provide the highest level of performance and a seamless integration into a customers’ existing Control Plane. It enables an end-to-end simplified design process for all phases, from the ability to develop a system using a simulation environment to the development and integration of applications on multicore chips and the migration of applications to multicore.

“Our joint customers will be able to realize more powerful and design-friendly solutions for a variety of applications,” said Eric Carmès, CEO of 6WIND.” This includes telecommunications infrastructure equipment such as 4G, LTE, and wired applications; enterprise gateways; security appliances; network offload engines for IP-based applications and more. We’re excited about the prospects of partnering with Emerson Network Power to jointly address a myriad of application and design needs around advanced multicore architectures.”

Availability

Emerson Network Power and 6WIND joint solutions are available for evaluation immediately. The ATCA-9305 blade is also now available. Pricing varies by quantity and applications. For more information on products from Emerson Network Power, visit: www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/EmbeddedComputing. For more information on products from 6WIND, contact the company via: http://www.6wind.com/contact.html.

About Emerson Network Power

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™ from grid to chip for telecommunication networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Emerson Network Power provides innovative solutions and expertise in areas including AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, monitoring, and connectivity. All solutions are supported globally by local Emerson Network Power service technicians. For more information on Emerson Network Power’s embedded computing products and services including ATCA®, COM Express™, CompactPCI®, embedded motherboards, MicroTCA®, VMEbus and OpenSAF® for original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators in the telecommunications, industrial automation, aerospace/defense and medical markets, visit www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/EmbeddedComputing. Learn more about Emerson Network Power products and services at www.EmersonNetworkPower.com.

About 6WIND

6WIND provides high-performance packet processing embedded software solutions used by networking and telecommunications companies providing equipment for converged, all-IP networks. The company’s 6WINDGate™ solution maximizes the packet processing performance of single- and multicore platforms from several processor suppliers, allowing customers to focus on their own value-added software applications and minimize their time-to-market. To ensure the availability of a complete system-level ecosystem, 6WIND partners with industry-leading suppliers of multicore processors, board-level products, operating systems and embedded software products worldwide. 6WIND is a privately-owned company based near Paris, France with a subsidiary in California, a sales and support office in Asia, and an R&D center in Beijing, China. For more information, visit www.6wind.com.

Dynalith Systems (Korea) and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the successful integration of a new tool kit for engineers simulating and prototyping high performance computer systems. Based on powerful Xilinx FPGAs, the kit supports a full development path from Visual Studio, GCC, and other compilers, through hardware/software partitioning to a deployable FPGA-based development board. The integrated tool flow streamlines development by creating an environment for hardware/software partitioning experimentation, and by automatically generating APIs. Software developers in particular are looking to accelerate algorithms in programmable platforms, but have been traditionally limited by the complexities of generating appropriate hardware interfaces to streams, signals memories and I/O. This new kit automates these.

The main benefit from this integration is to run host programs along with logic operating in FPGA fabric. A wide range of host programs are available as a part of Impulse C, including royalty free, ready to run image processing, financial, math, and scientific programs. “We see the advent of stable APIs between FPGA hardware and software elements as a major step towards FPGAs extending their reach into the traditional domains of software developers.” commented Dr. Ando Ki, Dynalith R&D Director. He continues, “We see tools like Impulse C as the missing link in this process – enabling software developers to adapt high speed, single- or dual-streaming algorithms to the incredibly broad I/O architecture of FPGAs. And to do so with little or no hardware knowledge.”

“Xilinx FPGAs bring great power to the developer who needs to quickly simulate or develop a circuit,” said David Buechner, Impulse Vice President of Business Development. He continues, “By being able to use intelligently configured, Xilinx-based development boards from Dynalith, plus reliable APIs, many of the basic “plumbing” hurdles disappear.” By integrating Impulse and Dynalith, the software part can be run by the host computer, while the hardware part runs on multiple FPGA streams. HW and SW are connected through industry standard hardware channels such as PCI, PCIe, or USB.

About Impulse

Impulse Accelerated Technologies provides C-to-FPGA tools and custom hardware/software solutions for financial, government and industrial customers. Impulse products are in use at eight of the top ten defense contractors, half the automotive manufacturers and hundreds of R&D labs worldwide. The company offers software tools, IP libraries and custom engineering services. For more information visit www.ImpulseC.com or call 425-605-9543 ext. 101.

About Dynalith Systems Co., Ltd.

Dynalith Systems develops and markets specialized hardware and CAD solutions that enable electronic system designers to verify algorithms in real hardware environments at an early design stage, and thereby significantly reduce time-to-market. Dynalith products include USB/PCIe/PCI-based FPGA boards. Dynalith makes a range of Xilinx-based development boards for simulation, prototyping and low- to medium-run manufacturing. For more information on Dynalith, visit www.dynalith.com.

Editorial contact: Brian.Durwood@ImpulseC.com

Carbon Design Systems™, a leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models, today announced immediate availability of a comprehensive array of implementation-accurate models of ARM® intellectual property (IP) cores.

The expanded portfolio of Carbonized ARM IP now includes the entire Cortex™ and ARM11™ families of processors, along with ARM9™ and ARM7™ family of processors. In addition, it includes support for the ARM AMBA® NIC301 Network Interconnect, as well as the most popular AMBA AXI, AHB and APB peripherals.

Carbonized models of ARM IP are compiled directly from the original register transfer level (RTL) code to ensure 100% implementation accuracy. These models can be easily integrated into any commercial virtual prototype system used for architectural analysis and pre-silicon hardware/software validation, including Carbon SoC Designer and OSCI SystemC platforms. The models feature debugger integrations for both software developers and hardware engineers with support for semi-hosting, break pointing and single-stepping.

“Carbon now has models for all of ARM’s newest processors, as well as most of the remaining ARM IP in use today,” states Tom Rathje, Carbon’s vice president of Engineering. “This puts us in a unique position to quickly roll out cycle accurate models of new ARM processors.

Availability and Pricing

For the complete list of currently available implementation-accurate models, visit: www.carbondesignsystems.com/Products/ARMModels.[...].

The Carbon Library of ARM IP is priced in a variety of configurations. For details, send email to: info@carbondesignsystems.com.

About Carbon Design Systems

Carbon Design Systems offers the leading system validation solution for complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Target applications range from model generation and deployment to virtual platform creation, execution, and analysis. Carbon provides 100% implementation accuracy on the critical components required for accurate architectural analysis and pre-silicon hardware/software validation. Solutions are based on open industry standards, including SystemC, IP-XACT, Verilog, VHDL, OSCI TLM, MDI, SCML, CASI, CADI and CAPI. Carbon’s customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on wireless, networking, and consumer electronics. Carbon is headquartered at 125 Nagog Park, Acton, Mass., 01720. Telephone: (978) 264-7300. Facsimile: (978) 264-9990. Email: info@carbondesignsystems.com. Website: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 07, 2009 – CEVA Inc, [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today introduced the industry’s first integrated optimizing toolchain that enables an end-to-end, fully C-based development flow for licensable DSP cores. Available as part of the CEVA-Toolbox™ Software Development Environment, the Application Optimizer allows application developers to easily develop software for CEVA’s DSPs purely in C-Level, eliminating any hand-written assembly coding. This results in significantly better overall performance and a shorter design cycle for SoC designs.

Substantial Performance Advantages Over Other Licensable Solutions

With the addition of the Application Optimizer, the enhanced development environment for CEVA’s DSP cores dramatically simplifies the software development process and improves the absolute performance of the target application. As an example, using the standard AMR-NB (Adaptive Multi Rate compression, narrow band) vocoder C reference, the CEVA-X1622 DSP core required just 19 MHz when compiled out-of-the-box (for worst-case frames and streams). In comparison, other licensable solutions require more than 45% higher speed for the same out-of-the-box compiled code.

Vastly Reduced Software Development Time

With the growing complexity of designing a modern SoC architecture, the burden of embedded software development poses the greatest challenge for IC vendors. The effort involved in writing and optimizing software for a given multifaceted system architecture has become the largest bottleneck in the design cycle. The Application Optimizer toolchain along with a number of other key elements in the CEVA-Toolbox™ Development Environment shifts the software design flow to pure C-level and reduces the burden of architecture-specific know-how traditionally required by application developers.

“With today’s highly integrated chip designs and the growing complexity of programming these advanced processors, development tools are now the key item for DSP selection,” said Will Strauss, founder and president, Forward Concepts. “The addition of a comprehensive end-to-end C level software optimization toolchain for CEVA’s DSP cores offers a significant advantage to customers designing DSP applications, eliminating the tedious and time-consuming requirement for Assembly-level optimization.”

Key Elements of the Application Optimizer include;

• Project build optimizer: Creates optimized build configurations, simulates and profiles multiple application scenarios based on the customers application and exact system conditions

• DSP and Communication Libraries: C-callable assembly optimized functions, significantly improve performance and development time of DSP and communication applications.

• Application Profiler: A cycle accurate C-level application and memory subsystem profiler

• Scoring based compilation: Results in less than 1:1.5 ratio between out-of-the-box C to optimized assembly

Other integral elements of the Application Optimizer include; post linker optimizer, debugger connectivity for easy migration of algorithms (e.g.: MATLAB), test environment automation.

CEVA Application Optimizer Demonstration

View a video demonstration of the Application Optimizer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GbHtF2H-0.

For more information on the Application Optimizer and CEVA-Toolbox™ Development Environment, visit www.ceva-dsp.com/Toolbox.

Live Webinar

On January 12, 2010, CEVA will host a live webinar introducing the Application Optimizer.

Date & Time: January 12, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern / 16:00 GMT

Title: Optimize your Software Development Flow – An intelligent C-level development process for modern embedded processors

Overview: In this webinar, we will explore the latest challenges in software development for advanced embedded architectures and propose a practical flow to meet your target performance with minimal risk and shortest development time.

To register for this webinar, please visit www.ceva-dsp.com/Toolbox.

Development Tools and Support

CEVA’s DSPs are supported by a robust Development Environment that includes software development tools, development boards, software system drivers and RTOS. The Development Environment is built upon thousands of man-years of knowledge, accumulated since the inception of CEVA’s first DSP core in 1991. CEVA’s tools and support have been leveraged by thousands of engineers worldwide to produce more than one billion CEVA-powered chips that have shipped to date. The development tools run on Windows and Linux, and are supported by a worldwide customer service team. CEVA DSPs are further complemented by extensive algorithms and applications from CEVA and the CEVAnet third-party development community.

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Victor, N.Y. and San Francisco (November 24, 2009) – REDCOM Laboratories Inc., a company that designs and manufactures digital and IP-enabled telecommunications systems, today announced a technology partnership with Mocana to secure REDCOM’s TRANSip® IP technology suite. REDCOM announced an agreement to integrate Mocana’s NanoSSL™ Advanced™ device integrity software to implement secure SIP over TLS and to encrypt remote administration of REDCOM HDX and SLICE® 2100™ softswitches. Mocana’s security technology embedded within these REDCOM platforms protects users from eavesdropping, data theft and VoIP man-in-the-middle attacks by encrypting content and authenticating endpoints at carrier-class traffic volumes and speeds.

TRANSip is a Mocana-secured, fully integrated VoIP and TDM solution available for the REDCOM HDX and SLICE 2100 Carrier Class 4/5 softswitch platforms that incorporates the benefits of TDM and IP technologies. TRANSip provides a SIP Call Controller, Media Gateway, Media Gateway Controller, and a full range of related IP telephony capabilities and features. TRANSip also supports traditional TDM transport and signaling interfaces and features.

NanoSSL is Mocana’s super fast, super small SSL/TLS solution specifically designed to speed product development while providing best-in-class device security services for resource-constrained environments. NanoSSL is open-standards based, extensible, extremely small footprint, platform-agnostic and includes an optional government-certified FIPS 140-2 level one-validated crypto core. NanoSSL includes a full-featured key generator and certificate management client, and even supports Government Suite B crypto algorithms and the new RFC standard for TLS 1.2. Free source code evaluations of NanoSSL are available to developers at www.mocana.com/evaluate.html.

“Our customers demand robust security from our IP-based switch platforms,” said Klaus Gueldenpfennig, President of REDCOM. “They also expect very high throughput and high availability. Mocana’s government-certified cryptography software stood out head and shoulders above the rest. Their stellar engineering support and embedded security expertise made Mocana an easy choice when we went looking for a security partner.”

“REDCOM’s TRANSip incorporates a full VoIP and TDM feature set in a single Next Generation Network platform, coupling REDCOM’s world-renowned reliability with best-in-class Mocana device security,” said Adrian Turner, Mocana’s President and CEO. “TRANSip offers their customers all the ROI benefits of secure VoIP while still leveraging customers’ substantial investments in existing network elements.”

For more information about REDCOM’s HDX and SLICE 2100 with TRANSip, please email sales@redcom.com or call 1.585.924.7550. For more information about Mocana’s NanoSSL software, visit www.mocana.com/nanossl.html or call 415.617.0055.

About REDCOM

For more than 30 years, REDCOM has specialized in the design and manufacture of innovative telecommunications products noted for their quality and reliability. REDCOM products provide customers with state-of-the-art public and private network systems, ISDN systems, integrated TDM and VoIP systems, transportable systems, programmable systems, and test equipment.

Located in Victor, New York, REDCOM markets to a global customer base including commercial telecom service providers, private networks, integrators, emergency responders, and government and defense agencies, customizing products to meet each market’s specific needs. All REDCOM products are proudly designed, manufactured and assembled in the United States. The company website is: www.redcom.com.

About Mocana

Mocana secures the “Internet of Things” – the 20 billion datacom, smartgrid, federal, consumer, industrial and medical devices that connect across every sector of our economy. These devices already outnumber PC’s on the Internet by five to one, representing a $900 billion market that’s growing twice as fast as the PC market. Every day, millions of people use products sold by over 100 companies that leverage Mocana’s Device Integrity software, including Dell, Cisco, Honeywell, General Electric, General Dynamics, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Harris and Radvision, among others. Mocana won Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation of the Year award for 2008 for Device Security, and was named to the Red Herring Global 100 as one of the “top 100 privately-held technology companies in the world” in January 2009.

Dallas, TX (November 23, 2009) – Representing a new era in development, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the eZ430-Chronos, the world’s first customizable development environment within a sports watch. Taking the popular line of eZ430™ development tools to the next level, the kit allows developers to easily harness the leading integration, ultra-low power and wireless capabilities of TI’s CC430 microcontroller (MCU). Priced at $49, Chronos is designed to provide customers with all of the hardware and software needed to immediately begin development of wireless networking applications, regardless of programming expertise. It is equipped with sensors for measurement and motion-based control and can serve as a central hub for nearby wireless sensors so that users have remote access to real-time data from devices such as pedometers and heart rate monitors. Additionally, Chronos includes a USB-RF access point for wireless set-up and PC connectivity, as well as multiple production-ready open source projects to foster easy evaluation, design and community collaboration. For more information, please visit www.ti.com/chronos-pr.

Key features and benefits of the eZ430-Chronos

• Wearable form factor allows customers to conveniently develop in remote locations

• TI’s SimpliciTI and BM Innovations’ Blue Robin™ RF protocols enable developers to easily establish wireless links regardless of RF knowledge, right out of the box

• Available in three different RF frequency bands – 915, 868, and 433 MHz – allowing for worldwide usage

• Integrated 3-axis accelerometer for motion sensitive control as well as sensors for measurement, including altimeter, temperature and battery voltage

• Internal CC430 memory available for data storage, holding up to 11 hours of data such as heart rate

• eZ430 emulator for simplified programming and debugging on top of base software framework and RF functions

• USB-RF access point for PC communication and automation, supported by production-ready source projects, including, but not limited to, motion-based mouse control, sensor data logging with wireless PC download, keyboard and presentation control as well as time and calendar sync

• Large 96 segment LCD display driven directly by CC430

• Low cost system includes all supporting hardware and software, increasing accessibility and reducing development cost

In order to provide customers with the most comprehensive, easy-to-use development kit, TI collaborated with several industry leaders in the creation of the eZ430-Chronos. These third parties include:

• BM Innovations, a development specialist for electronic equipment in the sports and fitness market

• IDT, a leading manufacturer for electronic products in sports, fitness and healthcare

• Johanson Technology, a provider of ceramic components that optimize RF front end designs

• VTI Technologies, a leading provider of acceleration, inclination, motion and pressure sensor solutions

Chronos is supported by these and other TI MSP430™ MCU Developer Network members, providing customers with a robust support ecosystem.

TI’s Ultra-Low Power Design Challenge

Designs based on the eZ430-Chronos are eligible for TI’s MSP430 Ultra-Low Power Design Challenge, which encourages developers to show “how low they can go” by submitting video demonstrations ranging from practical everyday solutions to application-specific design concepts using the world’s lowest-power MSP430 MCUs and development tools. More than $10,000 in cash and awards will be dispersed, and winners will be announced on or before January 29, 2010. For rules and instructions on how to enter the MSP430 Ultra-Low Power Design Challenge, and details on the design selection process, please visit www.ti.com/chronos_designchallenge-pr

Pricing and availability

The new eZ430-Chronos is priced at $49 and customers can immediately place orders at www.ti.com/chronos_estore-pr.

TI’s broad portfolio of MCUs and software

From general purpose, ultra-low power MSP430 MCUs, to Stellaris® Cortex™-M3-based 32-bit MCUs and high performance, real-time control TMS320C2000™ MCUs, TI offers the broadest range of embedded control solutions. Designers can accelerate time to market by tapping into TI’s complete software and hardware tools, extensive third-party offerings and technical support.

Find out more about TI’s eZ430-Chronos by visiting the links below:

• Chronos tool folder: www.ti.com/chronos-pr

• Chronos Wiki: www.ti.com/chronoswiki-pr

• TI’s microcontroller portfolio – www.ti.com/chronos_microcontroller-pr

• Chronos video overview: www.ti.com/chronos_video-pr

• MSP430 Ultra-low Power Design Challenge: www.ti.com/chronos_designchallenge-pr

• TI eStore: www.ti.com/chronos_estore-pr

• TI MSP430 Developer Network: www.ti.com/chronos_developernetwork-pr

• MSP430 tools: www.ti.com/chronos_ez430-pr

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About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com.

Trademarks

MSP430, eZ430 and TMS320C2000 are trademarks and Stellaris is a registered trademark of Texas Instruments. Cortex is a trademark of ARM Ltd. and Blue Robin is a trademark of BM Innovations.

All other registered trademarks and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Carbon Design Systems announced today that AppliedMicro (NASDAQ: AMCC), a global leader in energy-conscious computing and communications solutions, has selected Carbon’s system-level model generation software to reduce time to market for its next-generation system on chip (SoC) designs.

AppliedMicro engineers use Carbon Model Studio™ to accelerate the deployment of SystemC-based virtual platforms of their SoC designs for pre- and post-silicon software development, performance analysis and system-level validation.

“Virtual platforms containing Carbon Models have become part of our standard methodology for developing and refining our firmware,” affirms Vinay Ravuri, AppliedMicro’s vice president of Engineering Embedded Systems. “Carbon Model Studio enables us to quickly generate high-performance, system-level models for the majority of the SoC that is reused, reducing the time required to generate a virtual platform.”

“We’re pleased that AppliedMicro continues to derive value from Carbon Model Studio,” says Rick Lucier, chief executive officer of Carbon Design Systems. “Today’s announcement further validates that Carbon Model Studio has become the industry-standard method to generate high-performance, system-level models for legacy or third party intellectual property to accelerate virtual platform deployment.”

About Carbon Design Systems

Carbon Design Systems offers the leading system validation solution for complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Target applications range from model generation and deployment to virtual platform creation, execution, and analysis. Carbon provides 100% implementation accuracy on the critical components required for accurate architectural analysis and pre-silicon hardware/software validation. Solutions are based on open industry standards, including SystemC, IP-XACT, Verilog, VHDL, OSCI TLM, MDI, SCML, CASI, CADI and CAPI. Carbon’s customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on wireless, networking, and consumer electronics. Carbon is headquartered at 125 Nagog Park, Acton, Mass., 01720. Telephone: (978) 264-7300. Facsimile: (978) 264-9990. Email: info@carbondesignsystems.com. Website: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

OTTAWA, ON, November 10, 2009—Crank Software Inc., an innovator of embedded user interface (UI) solutions, announces general availability of the Crank Storyboard Suite. For R&D teams developing embedded systems that require a dynamic graphical display, Storyboard makes the best use of each team member’s core expertise, streamlines the design cycle, and optimizes hardware performance.

News

■ Crank Software offers a new, streamlined approach to how R&D teams develop UIs for embedded systems. The Crank Storyboard Suite enables UI designers with no programming experience to drag-and-drop their UI designs and do this in parallel with, yet independently from, the engineers who are coding. This approach saves valuable time and delivers the defined product user experience (UX) to the market.

■ Storyboard enables portability of UIs across OSs, hardware platforms, and CPU versions

■ Storyboard is scalable across product lines to leverage the investment in R&D efforts

Product information

Storyboard consists of two graphical display development optimization modules:

■ Crank Storyboard Designer enables UI designers to easily prototype the look and feel of a UI, run simulations of the interface to validate the designs, and move the prototype directly to the embedded device for deployment

■ Crank Storyboard Embedded Engine is a runtime component that drives the content developed in Designer on embedded devices

Key product features

■ OS-agnostic Embedded Engine supports any hardware the OS supports

■ Embedded Engine does debugging, traceability, and performance metrics

■ Embedded Engine is written in C and source code access is possible for profiling, optimization, testing, and validation

■ Scalable through plugin architecture and can be customized for the environment’s requirements

■ Scalable memory requirements minimize impact on bill of materials

■ Clean design, clean architecture, and drag-and-drop functionality

■ Leverages the Eclipse environment

■ GPU hardware optimized

■ The UI prototype is the product

Availability and pricing

Storyboard is available immediately. While Crank Software markets its embedded UI development solutions to manufacturers of Consumer Electronics, Industrial Devices, and Automotive Head Units, the solutions are not limited to these industries. Please call +1.613.595.1999 or email info@cranksoftware.com for pricing.

Quotes

Graham Spencer, Project Manager, Paradigm Advanced Research Centre (PARC)

“The Crank Storyboard Suite enabled us to quickly prototype and simulate our user interface while providing consistent results across hardware platforms and operating systems. Not only did this streamline our development cycle it also enabled us to provide a richer, more complete experience for our users.”

Jason Clarke, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Crank Software Inc.

“Today, UI designers use one development tool and the embedded systems engineers use another. The linear, back-and-forth approach often means R&D teams miss their market window. The Crank Storyboard Suite offers a new approach that not only accelerates time to market; the approach ensures that the UI designer’s envisioned UI is delivered intact.”

Tags/Keywords

user interface development, ui development, embedded graphical display, crank software, crank storyboard

Links

Crank Software Inc.

Crank Storyboard Suite

Crank Storyboard Designer

Crank Storyboard Embedded Engine

Evaluation Software

Product Videos

About Crank Software Inc.

Crank Software is an innovator in embedded user interface solutions. Our products and services enable R&D teams to more quickly develop rich graphical displays for resource-constrained embedded devices compared to traditional electronic design automation tools. Today, time is wasted in the development lifecycle because the design goes back and forth between UI designers and embedded systems engineers. The Crank Storyboard Suite enables UI designers and engineers to work in parallel. Storyboard manages the entire UI lifecycle—from UI design to simulation to being optimized for the device. Storyboard delivers competitive advantage because streamlining the development lifecycle enables companies to get products to market faster, with higher ROI, and lower TCO while delivering a superior customer experience. Visit us at www.cranksoftware.com.

Contact

Jason Clarke

Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Phone +1.613.595.1999

Email Jason@cranksoftware.com

Crank and Storyboard are trademarks of Crank Software Inc. Eclipse is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – November 10, 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has acquired Extessy, a leading supplier of development tools and services for system requirements, co-simulation, integration and test, based in Wolfsburg, Germany. Artisan’s acquisition of Extessy closely follows its acquisition last month of Brass Bullet, a leading UK systems engineering consultancy.

“This is a significant next step in our ‘complex systems tools market’ consolidation program,” said James B. Gambrell, President and CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “Extessy’s offerings, vertical markets and German reach complement our existing organization and align precisely with our business plans. The real benefit of our joining together with Extessy is not just the scale it gives us, but that our joint offerings work together to help our customers Work as One. No matter how large we grow, we will remain independent-minded and flexible, positioning us particularly well for future growth.”

Extessy was founded in 2000 as a provider of software tools and consulting services for embedded system development, deriving the bulk of its business from the German automotive industry. The combined companies will significantly expand Artisan’s operations in Germany. All of the Extessy team will join Artisan, extending Artisan’s knowledge within the key automotive industry, bolstering its professional services capability and extending its global reach. As a direct result, Artisan will be moving its German headquarters from Munich to Extessy’s Wolfsburg offices, while still retaining a regional presence in Munich.

“I am extremely excited that Extessy has joined with Artisan Software Tools,” commented Bill Esler, CEO of Extessy AG. “Artisan is a highly successful and fast-growing company with an enviable reputation for providing robust model-based development tools for complex systems development. Extessy will add greatly to the solutions and services Artisan is able to offer to its customers as well as considerably expand the opportunity to continue to grow its market share.”

“We are pleased to see Artisan acquire Extessy and commit to the ongoing enhancement of its products and services,” said Theodor Staneff, Manager Product Development and System Support Control and Command Technology of Deutsche Bahn, Munich, Germany. “As a long-term Artisan and Extessy customer, we have been continually impressed by their professionalism and service quality. They appear to have bucked the trend, showing considerable growth during the economic downturn. This move is testament to the dedication and expertise of the Artisan and Extessy management teams and staff.”

The merger combines Extessy’s operating business including all products and underlying intellectual property, professional services and expertise with Artisan’s existing German operations. The product portfolio includes the EXERPT requirements interchange and management platform based on the RIF Requirements Interchange Format, the EXITE co-simulation platform and EXACT automated test and validation platform. The sizeable professional services practice focuses on system engineering process consulting, tool customization, training and product support.

“Combining Extessy with Artisan is a further step in our ‘whole product’ growth strategy to provide system engineers and enterprise architects across a broad range of industries with a comprehensive range of development solutions and services,” said Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing of Artisan Software Tools. “Extessy’s tools and services perfectly complement our existing model-based solutions for mission, safety and life-critical complex systems development, adding all-important capabilities in terms of system requirements interchange and management, co-simulation and test automation.”

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About Extessy

EXTESSY (EXperts for TESt and SYstem development) is a provider of software tools and consulting services for embedded system and software development. EXTESSY provides technologies in order to achieve the optimum quality systematically – for embedded systems, requirements management, system design, development and testing of components. EXTESSY manages complexity in development and testing. The products and services are based on leading-edge innovation: efficient with the products, committed to consulting and passionate about tailor-made solutions. Processes in the system development become more efficient, as well as time and cost investments will be significantly reduced. EXTESSY is a Member of AUTOSAR. EXTESSY is headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany and its customers include Audi, Blaupunkt, BMW, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Porsche, Robert Bosch, Siemens and Volkswagen. For more information visit: www.Extessy.com.

About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

Couldn’t make it to the Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas booth at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Minneapolis Show? That’s okay – Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) will come to you.

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas (EMA) is bringing a taste of the show to its Web site, offering four brief video versions of what it exhibited on the show floor including a low-power Atom processor convenience kit; a high brightness LED color controller to manage color mixing for LED string lighting; value-added services and solutions for custom cable, thermal management, power, subassembly integration, and motor modifications; and supply chain services. The videos are available at: www.em.avnet.com/mdmminn2009.

“These videos highlight just a few of the product and service offerings Avnet has for the medical community. And since not all of our customers can make it to the MD&M Minneapolis show, we believe the videos are a great way to share this information with them,” said Chuck Delph, senior vice president of sales for Avnet EMA. “These videos give them a brief window into resources and tools Avnet offers to help them cut costs and speed their time to market.”

ENEA Element on Advantech ATCA blades extends Platform Management choices

At the ATCA Summit in Santa Clara today, Advantech and ENEA® (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA) announced the availability of the ENEA® Element systems management middleware suite on Advantech’s Intel® Xeon® 5500-based AdvancedTCA blades, enabling higher levels of manageability, reliability and serviceability required by core network applications. Advantech will be demonstrating systems management capabilities leveraging Element in their booth during the summit.

“Right now Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) want scalable, open platforms that deliver greater speed, integrate seamlessly and lower total costs,” said Peter Marek, Director of Advantech’s Blade Computing Division. “Advantech’s ATCA blades coupled with ENEA Element expand the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum)-conformant hardware choice for customers, while offering innovative blade-level feature sets and exceptional platform and application availability management services. That’s a huge benefit to TEMs in getting to deployment faster and with a highly reliable, managed network element.” he added.

ENEA Element has been implemented on both of Advantech’s ATCA blades based on the Intel® Xeon® 5500 series where the higher processing power, improved DDR3 memory latency, faster PCI Express 2.0, and accelerated virtualization technologies provide impressive processing capacity. Both the single and dual processor blades are 6-core ready and share common architectures allowing full software re-use.

“ENEA Element is focused on ensuring the seamless integration of standards-based COTS platforms, accelerating development of distributed applications, and delivering comprehensive management facilities. Now customers can focus their resources on compelling new services with the guarantee of high reliability and manageability“ said Terry Pearson, vice president, Platform Management, at ENEA. “Advantech is gaining momentum in the market with their high-performance, standards-based platforms and together we can offer tremendous value to our mutual customers.”

Enea’s Element provides an open architecture, SA Forum-conformant, COTS middleware solution for distributed telecom systems that helps TEMs accelerate application development and create high-availability distributed software that is more scalable and easier to maintain. It also facilitates the design of portable software that can be reused across multiple generations of products and take advantage of the latest hardware upgrades. The upshot for network equipment and service providers is faster time to market and lower total cost of ownership.

Element provides core services for instrumenting, monitoring, and synchronizing applications spread across multiple operating systems and processors. It also provides network supervision, fault management, DSP management, shelf management, and upgrade management services that make it easier to monitor, repair, configure, and upgrade live systems as they operate in the field.

For more information, visit Advantech networks and telecom at www.advantech.com/NC or E-mail to NCG@advantech.com.

ROCHESTER, NY – Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading provider of innovative network communications solutions, today announced that Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTX), has selected the company’s IPnexus® MicroTCA® System as its design platform to develop new WiMAX and LTE products. Harris Stratex is a global supplier of advanced wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks.

This design win marks a turning point in an industry where development platforms are regularly assembled using hardware, software, and middleware from multiple vendors, requiring extensive compatibility testing and configuration that consumes premium time and scarce resources. The pre-integrated, Application-Ready System from Performance Technologies is unique in its offering, whereby all elements of operating system and middleware, processor technology, and platform are designed, manufactured, and pre-integrated from a single source.

“Our main objective was to reduce the time and expense of bringing our wireless service gateway to market,” said Paul Kennard, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Harris Stratex. “The IPnexus platform is the most cost-effective solution because we don’t have to be a systems integrator; instead we are able to devote considerably more energy to creating quality applications for our customers. Their high-end technology is extremely flexible and scalable, and better positions the final product to meet our worldwide customer demand for high performance, cost-effective wireless gateways.”

Performance Technologies has created a new paradigm and occupies an exclusive market position with its IPnexus Application-Ready Systems. Designers are now able to obtain from a single source a complete and robust development system comprised of 1U MicroTCA platform, AdvancedMC™ processors, media, and communications modules, and a comprehensive Linux®-based software suite, named NexusWare®. NexusWare includes a registered 4.0 Carrier Grade Linux distribution, cross-platform development environment, a highly customizable kernel builder, protocol stacks for communication applications, web-based system management, and APIs and drivers specifically tuned to its platforms and AMC modules to offer a synergistic, highly compatible, and fully featured system.

“We applaud Harris Stratex for selecting our highly integrated solution set as the foundation for their wireless service gateways,” said Patt Rice, senior vice president at Performance Technologies. “We anticipated that the demands of proliferating wireless and internet services would outpace earlier technology, and we pioneered a daring new approach in our Application-Ready Systems. The eager and growing adoption of this approach by wireless application developers serves to amplify our assertion that the era of MicroTCA has arrived.”

Performance Technologies will be showcasing its IPnexus MicroTCA Application-Ready Systems at the ATCA Summit 2009 in San Jose, CA, from October 27-29, 2009 (booth 430).

Online Resources

Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ IPnexus MicroTCA Systems can access the following online resources:

AMP5071 specifications and product photo: go.pt.com/amp5071

NexusWare OS and development environment: go.pt.com/nexusware

NexusWare Portal for IPnexus MicroTCA Platforms: go.pt.com/nexusware-portal

Pre-recorded Webinar: The State of MicroTCA: go.pt.com/webinar

About Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. (www.harrisstratex.com)

Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks. The company offers reliable, flexible and scalable wireless network solutions, backed by comprehensive professional services and support. Harris Stratex Networks serves all global markets, including mobile network operators, public safety agencies, private network operators, utility and transportation companies, government agencies and broadcasters. Customers in more than 135 countries depend on Harris Stratex Networks to build, expand and upgrade their voice, data and video solutions. Harris Stratex Networks is recognized around the world for innovative, best-in-class wireless networking solutions and services.

About Performance Technologies (www.pt.com)

Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX) is a global supplier of advanced network communications and control solutions to end users, application developers, and original equipment manufacturers that serve mission critical telecommunications as well as aerospace and defense markets. The company provides remotely manageable, IP-centric network elements specifically engineered for high availability, scalability, and long life cycle deployments. Its products are built upon its own U.S. manufactured hardware combined with the company’s NexusWare® Carrier Grade Linux® operating system and software development environment plus a broad suite of communications protocols and high availability middleware. Performance Technologies’ product portfolio includes the SEGway™ suite of Signaling (SS7/SIP) Transfer Points, Signaling Gateways and Bridges, and its IPnexus® family of COTS-based application-ready systems, WAN gateways, and multi-protocol communications servers.

Performance Technologies maximizes the value proposition of its products by leveraging its field proven systems, software, and hardware technologies developed over a twenty-eight year record of demonstrated innovation. A tightly integrated combination of these technologies results in measurable benefits to its customers through compelling return-on-investment and substantially accelerated time-to-market metrics. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY, and maintains centers of engineering excellence in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, CA, and Kanata, ON, Canada. It has sales and marketing offices in the U.S. in Raleigh, Chicago, Dallas, and San Jose and international offices in London, England and Shanghai, China.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements which reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events and which could impact the Company’s financial performance. These statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. The Company’s future operating results are subject to various risks and uncertainties and may be affected by various trends and factors which are beyond the Company’s control, including customers’ acceptance of the Company’s new products. Forward-looking statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements, the Notes thereto, Risk Factors, and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of the Company as of December 31, 2008, as contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Integrated solution targets aerospace, defense, telecom, power plant, medical, automotive, and industrial control applications

Phoenix, AZ and Wirral, UK. October 21, 2009. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for safety-critical applications, and LDRA, provider of the industry’s most complete automated software testing technology, today announced the integration of DDC-I’s DO-178B-certifiable DeosTM real-time operating system (RTOS) and LDRA’s tool suite®. The integrated solution will help developers get to market faster with optimized, robust and certifiable software that meets the most demanding safety-critical requirements, including DO-178B Level A, the FAA’s highest level of safety criticality.

“The demand for safety-critical software has expanded beyond traditional aerospace and defense applications into markets such as telecom, power plants, medical, automotive, and industrial control,” said Greg Rose, vice president of marketing at DDC-I. “LDRA’s best-in-class tools are a perfect complement to our own proven safety-critical RTOS and tool suite. This integration gives developers across a broad range of mission-critical applications the turnkey platform they need to quickly develop, debug, comprehensively test and deploy safety-critical software that can be readily certified to the most demanding requirements.”

“The LDRA tool suite has already been used extensively with Deos on a custom basis for a number of safety-critical projects, including air data units, navigation systems and ground-based augmentation GPS systems,” added Ian Hennell, operations director at LDRA. “This commercially available off-the-shelf integration delivers an even higher level of functionality and support, providing a premier platform that reduces the time and cost associated with developing, testing, deploying, and certifying safety-critical software.”

The LDRA tool suite provides comprehensive automated software testing and code analysis for a broad range of military and aerospace, telecommunications, transportation, power and medical applications. The suite covers the full software development lifecycle, including requirements traceability and programming standards checking (i.e., MISRA-C:2004, MISRA C++:2008, JSF++ AV and CERT C), code coverage, structural coverage analysis up to DO-178B Level A, automated unit testing, and test verification.

Deos is the industry’s most robust, highest performance RTOS for the safety-critical market. Featuring deterministic real-time response, the memory-protected RTOS employs patented “slack scheduling” to deliver higher CPU utilization than any other safety-critical commercial off the shelf (COTS) RTOS. Deos is the only certifiable time and space (T&S) partitioned COTS RTOS built from the ground up for safety-critical applications. Deos also provides the easiest, lowest cost path of any COTS RTOS to DO-178B Level A certification, the highest level of safety criticality.

About LDRA

For more than thirty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software used for the automation of code analysis and software testing of safety critical applications. The LDRA tool suite is used in the aerospace, space and defense technology industries as well as the nuclear energy and automotive industries. Through the use of the LDRA tool suite, companies ensure that their systems are built in accordance with prescribed standards and are durable and reliable in use. The LDRA tool suite is available for a variety of programming languages and supports a wide range of host and target platforms. LDRA is represented world-wide with its head office in the UK and subsidiaries in the USA as well as through an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

About DDC-I, Inc.

DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of real-time operating systems, software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on safety-critical applications. DDC-I’s customer base is an impressive “who’s who” in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers safety-critical real-time operating systems, compilers, integrated development environments and run-time systems for real-time Java, C, C++, Ada, Fortran and JOVIAL application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products, contact DDC-I at 1825 E. Northern Ave., Suite #125, Phoenix, Arizona 85020; phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail sales@ddci.com or visit www.ddci.com/mktg.php?mc=pr0908.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 20th October 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has acquired Brass Bullet Limited, a leading systems engineering consultancy based in Swansea in the UK. The acquisition is part of Artisan’s growth strategy and gives the company full ownership of Brass Bullet’s consultancy and training offerings in Software Design, Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architectures. The Brass Bullet team, including its core group of industry experts, will join the Artisan fold, bolstering Artisan’s professional services capability.

“This acquisition represents the next step in our ‘whole product’ strategy for systems engineers and enterprise architects” said Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing of Artisan Software tools. ”Closely synchronized with our recent launch of Artisan Studio 7.1 and its support for UPDM (Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF), this acquisition provides experienced specialists to help our customers achieve maximum productivity from UML, SysML and UPDM.”

In more detail, Artisan has acquired the Brass Bullet business, including all staff, training materials, intellectual property, offices and customer contracts. Brass Bullet’s tool-independent training courses cover requirements engineering, scenario modeling, architectures, systems engineering and UML, amongst others. Consulting services included competency assessments, best practices mentoring and process & methodology development, The directors include industry thought leaders, who are highly active within INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering), the BCS (British Computer Society) and the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology). Brass Bullet will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Artisan Software Tools.

“I am extremely pleased that Brass Bullet has joined the Artisan Software Tools group at such an exciting time in its growth.” commented Jon Holt, Managing Director of Brass Bullet Ltd. and now global Head of Systems Engineering for Artisan Software Tools. “We recognize Artisan as a world-class specialist, providing first rate tools and professional services to major engineering companies, and our long term vendor independence adds a wealth of firsthand experience helping the most demanding customers become successful. Artisan is seeing massive demand for its offerings, so we are very excited to be able to help both deliver our own services and provide our technical expertise for the Artisan family of products, so that Artisan can continue to grow and provide the best in class products and services.” he continued.

In addition to lecturing and consulting, members of the Brass Bullet team have authored numerous articles and books, which are testament to their depth of knowledge. These include “UML for Systems Engineering: watching the wheels”, Second edition, Jon Holt (2004), IEE, “A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modeling” 2nd Edition, Jon Holt (2009), BCS, “SysML for Systems Engineering”, Jon Holt & Simon Perry (2008), IET and “Modeling Enterprise Architectures”, Jon Holt & Simon Perry (planned 2010) IET.

“We are very excited by this acquisition as it is highly synergistic with our existing business,” said James B. Gambrell, President and CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “As a leading software tools vendor, we recognize the need for knowledgeable and independent-minded professionals to continually challenge our thinking, as a means to deliver valuable innovation to help our customers create real returns on their investments in modeling and development tools. Using our experts, with real-world systems engineering and enterprise architecture experience, lets our customers learn from the mistakes of others and leapfrog their competition.”

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

CHELMSFORD, Mass.—October 19, 2009 — Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRCY), a leading provider of embedded, high-performance computing systems and software for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, and the founder of the OpenVPX™ Industry Working Group, an alliance of 28 leading-edge defense prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers, today announced availability of a broad range of OpenVPX products, which are designed to be compliant with the new V1.0 OpenVPX and draft VITA 65 Specifications.

The OpenVPX System Specification mandates interoperability at both system and board levels to reduce customization, cost, and risk. It is a clear response to the recent edict stated by a wide range of government officials and agencies that promotes performance migration towards open solutions, and away from proprietary, closed architectures. Mercury’s response to this mandate was to initiate an industry working group to develop specifications to meet the new federal demands. In support of these new specifications, the company is today introducing the Ensemble 3000 Series 3U OpenVPX and Ensemble 6000 Series 6U OpenVPX product lines, which deliver rugged solutions for high-density, high-performance computing, suitable for use in radar, EO/IR, and electronic warfare applications on ship-borne, ground-based, and both manned and unmanned airborne platforms. Mercury’s innovative multi-plane architecture can support these sensor-based applications with advanced networking and embedded smart-processing capabilities, while adhering to the new OpenVPX System Specification.

With a rich set of fully compatible modules that can be scaled and combined in a variety of configurations, Ensemble 6000 6UOpenVPX solutions feature many board types, including single-board computers (SBCs), switch and I/O modules, and high-compute density (HCD) boards. Similarly, the Ensemble 3000 Series 3UOpenVPX systems combine flexible, high-performance architecture with scaleable processing capabilities. Ensemble 3000 systems are constructed from various types and quantities of boards, including compute node modules, processing modules, system controller hubs, data plane switch modules, and carrier modules.

Both the Ensemble 6000 and the Ensemble 3000 product families feature extensive system flexibility, including multi-plane architecture to isolate control functions from data movement, and application partitioning across multiple types of processors. Finally, a common software environment exists between the two product lines, providing software investment protection and easy application portability.

Complying with VITA 46 and 48 standards, all of Mercury’s OpenVPX products are fully capable of deployment in harsh environments, including extreme ranges of temperature and humidity, high levels of shock and vibration, and poor air quality. All modules are compatible with OpenVPX system architecture design principles, and are available in air-cooled, conduction-cooled, and spray-cooled formats.

“The extensive Ensemble 3000 and 6000 families of 3U and 6U OpenVPX-compliant products underline Mercury’s commitment to the OpenVPX standard,” stated Scott Brazina, vice president and chief marketing officer for Mercury Computer Systems. “Combining interoperability, ruggedness, and performance accelerates our customers’ time-to-market and ensures robust deployment.”

For more information, please visit www.mc.com/openvpx.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.,

Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) provides embedded computing systems and software that combine image, signal, and sensor processing with information management for data-intensive applications. With deep expertise in optimizing algorithms and software and in leveraging industry-standard technologies, we work closely with customers to architect comprehensive, purpose-built solutions that capture, process, and present data for defense electronics, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, commercial computing, homeland security, and other computationally challenging markets. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 25-year history in enabling customers to gain the competitive advantage they need to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.

Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the OpenVPX Industry Working Group, Ensemble 3000 Series products, and Ensemble 6000 Series products. You can identify these statements by our use of the words “may,” “will,” “should,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company’s markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company’s products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company’s recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

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Contact:

Kathleen Sniezek, Public Relations Manager

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

978-967-1126 / ksniezek@mc.com

OpenVPX is a trademark of VITA. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

CHELMSFORD, Mass.  October 19, 2009  Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRCY), a leading provider of embedded, high-performance computing systems and software for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, and the founder of the OpenVPX™ Industry Working Group (www.openvpx.org), an alliance of 28 leading defense prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers, today announced the completion of the V1.0 OpenVPX System Specification. Mercury also expressed its intent to support the embedded computing industry’s standards body, VITA, and the VITA 65 Committee membership’s effort to quickly ratify the OpenVPX specification as a VITA standard.

In January 2009, Mercury Computer Systems launched the OpenVPX Industry Working Group to take a proactive approach to addressing the VPX system-level interoperability concerns associated with the VPX (VITA 46) family of specifications. This visionary effort immediately gained the support of other key COTS embedded suppliers, prime contractors, and leading systems integrators to create and publish a top-down, system-level specification for module, backplane and development chassis architectures and pinouts necessary to create interoperable VPX systems and assemblies. The group set a very aggressive timetable to complete the V1.0 OpenVPX System Specification by October 2009.

“The cross-company teamwork required to complete this specification in a collaborative, consensus-driven, standards-body environment, while maintaining an aggressive nine-month project schedule was truly remarkable to see. We are justifiably proud and gratified to have created such a strong, open-architecture specification for the embedded computer systems VPX community,” said Ian Dunn, CTO, Mercury Computer Systems and OpenVPX Steering Committee Chairman.

After listening to many customers’ concerns regarding the status of the VPX 46 standards, Mercury took the lead in forming the OpenVPX Industry Working Group to address VITA 46 VPX interoperability concerns. In response to these customer concerns, the working group set out to address several objectives, including reducing the time to market for developing COTS solutions in 3U and 6U form factors, increasing supplier options, lowering adoption risk with improved interoperability, reducing delivery times for new production systems, and reducing the total cost of system ownership.

Following precedent set by VITA and other organizations, the working group began as small group of companies in order to create a structure that could deliver a viable open system specification to the industry. With strong interest in the OpenVPX initiative from leading defense contractors and other embedded computing systems suppliers, the circle of expertise quickly expanded to 26 companies. In addition to the significant technical challenges, the group tackled many customer concerns as well. The result of this cross-industry Technical Working Group is the new V1.0 OpenVPX System Specification, which was presented to the VITA 65 committee on October 19, 2009, for VSO ratification before year’s end. As all the OpenVPX Working Group members are also VITA members, it is expected that the specification will be quickly balloted and ratified by the VITA 65 VSO committee.

Once the OpenVPX System Specification is transitioned into VITA, plans call for the Working Group’s Technical Working Group to disband. The OpenVPX Industry Working Group will hold a press conference at the MILCOM show today in Boston to provide more information about the new OpenVPX System Specification.

“Open-systems architectures, high performance, and interoperability in a multi-vendor environment can only be achieved by establishing system-level standards,” said Didier Thibaud, general manager of advanced computing systems at Mercury Computer Systems. “Mercury believes that the OpenVPX System Specification with multi-plane reference architectures provides the basis for delivering innovative, smart-processing solutions designed to meet or exceed current and future DoD-critical, real-time embedded SWaP application requirements. We wish to thank all the OpenVPX and VITA member companies, and Ray Alderman, VSO chairman, for their unyielding support and contributions to the OpenVPX IWG efforts. Mercury is proud to have been a part of such a committed team.”

For more information on OpenVPX, visit www.openvpx.org. For more information on the VITA Standards Organization, visit www.vita.com.

About VPX

VPX, known as VITA 46, is an ANSI standard (ANSI/VITA 46.0-2007) defined by the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) that provides VMEbus-based systems with support for switched fabrics over a new high-speed connector. The VPX standard was developed to define a new generation of computing systems that will utilize high-performance switch fabrics as well as operate in harsh environments.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) provides embedded computing systems and software that combine image, signal, and sensor processing with information management for data-intensive applications. With deep expertise in optimizing algorithms and software and in leveraging industry-standard technologies, we work closely with customers to architect comprehensive, purpose-built solutions that capture, process, and present data for defense electronics, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, commercial computing, homeland security, and other computationally challenging markets. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 25-year history in enabling customers to gain the competitive advantage they need to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.

Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the OpenVPX Industry Working Group and the V1.0 Open VPX system specification. You can identify these statements by our use of the words “may,” “will,” “should,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company’s markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company’s products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company’s recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

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Contact:

Kathleen Sniezek, Public Relations Manager

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

978-967-1126 / ksniezek@mc.com

OpenVPX is a trademark of VITA. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 14th October 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has launched Artisan Studio Reviewer™, a powerful design reviewer that automates the otherwise manual task of checking UML, SysML and even UPDM models for completeness, correctness and consistency. With applications development deadlines continually shortening, Artisan Studio Reviewer significantly enhances the management and operation of complex mission and safety-critical development projects, cutting design time by up to 30% and improving design quality.

“Artisan Studio Reviewer automatically provides all the information needed to measure the quality of architectures and systems modeled in Artisan Studio, identify design faults early and fix them quickly,” said Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Marketing at Artisan Software Tools. “As design projects progress through their lifecycle, the time taken to fix errors gets exponentially longer and it can be difficult either to find or justify the time needed to manually check every detail of a model for completeness, correctness and consistency. Artisan Studio Reviewer replaces the previously manual task, which might otherwise have taken days, with an automated process that takes just seconds or minutes, even for large, complex models.”

Artisan Studio Reviewer checks UML, SysML and UPDM models using over 100 pre-configured design review scenarios. These out-of-the-box design reviews can be easily modified and re-configured to suit a company’s specific design practices and also supplemented with user-defined reviews to meet any unique requirements of a design project. As such, Artisan Studio Reviewer is an invaluable design tool for both project managers and design engineers of all disciplines – architects, systems and software engineers. Design managers no longer have to estimate the status of a design as Artisan Studio Reviewer provides the necessary metrics to measure design quality at each phase of the design cycle. Error reporting on models not only enables design engineers to easily identify errors within a design but, its active mentoring capability that details the consequences of not fixing them as well as proposing solutions for their correction, Artisan Studio Reviewer effectively guides engineers through the rectification process. Fully integrated with Artisan Studio, models can be fixed and updated from within Artisan Studio Reviewer.

“’Done yet?’ is one the most difficult questions to answer in engineering. It’s particularly difficult with large models consisting of hundreds of diagrams, thousands of objects, and a team of designers,” said Gary LaBarre, Senior Consulting Engineer at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. “Artisan Studio Reviewer answers the question, quickly performing hundreds of automated checks that would otherwise be undertaken manually. Executed prior to a peer review, Artisan Studio Reviewer allows designers to quickly assess the quality and readiness of their work and frees the peer review team to focus on the correctness of the functionality. Executed against the entire model, it allows early identification of trouble areas, avoiding time consuming generation of defective documentation or code.”

Artisan has also established a content feedback program for Artisan Studio Reviewer, through which users can make recommendations for improvements and new reviews, thereby actively participating in the future development of the product.

“Artisan Studio Reviewer is a further realization of our Work as One™ philosophy,” said James B. Gambrell, CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “Rapid and effective decision making is crucial to the entire mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software design process. As design deadlines continue to shorten, Artisan Studio Reviewer gives design managers and engineers confidence in the robustness of their designs by making 100% model checking coverage a reality as well as ensuring consistency between engineers and across models. Furthermore, it supports the documentation and communication of best design practice along with the implementation of company-wide design standards.”

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 12th October 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has launched a major new version of its flagship model-driven development tool suite, Artisan Studio® Version 7.1. It delivers some major new modeling features including comprehensive support for the new OMG Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM 1.0) standard, improved model diagram presentation through glossUML™, all new documentation generation through Artisan Publisher, increased extra-large model support and enhanced UML Activity modeling. Artisan Studio Version 7.1 continues to improve its core technologies with more capabilities for its XMI support, its Automated Code Synchronizer and State Machine simulation as well as support for Microsoft Windows 7®.

“Artisan Studio Version 7.1 delivers a variety of important new modeling functions and features that considerably extend its capabilities and further reinforce our market-leading position, especially in relation to mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software development,” said Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Marketing at Artisan Software Tools. “Our leading role in the OMG’s standardization of UPDM has enabled us to deliver our UPDM product at precisely the same time as the finalization of the standard. We have also provided some key features for improving the visual clarity of diagrams, to aid interpretation and understanding by engineers and managers alike.”

The release of Artisan Studio Version 7.1 has been precisely synchronized with the finalization of the OMG’s UPDM 1.0. It provides comprehensive support for this new standard, which addresses the visual modeling needs of the global defense community. Artisan Studio delivers support for all seven UPDM viewpoints, providing a standardized means to describe both DoDAF and MODAF architectures. Artisan Studio’s UPDM capability delivers enormous benefits for developers of military systems in terms of design consistency, quality and efficiency, improved tool interoperability and cost savings. In addition, model interchange and improved flow-down from systems of systems to systems development builds upon Artisan’s Work as Onesm strategy.

Artisan Studio’s ‘glossUML’ capability greatly improves the visual clarity of Artisan Studio UML, SysML and UPDM diagrams, helping to improve communication between all project stakeholders and fundamentally increasing design project understanding. glossUML creates presentation-ready diagrams of Artisan Studio models enabling them to be used as-is as well as to be cut and pasted directly into software like Microsoft Powerpoint®, eliminating the time wasted re-drawing diagrams for the purposes of presentations.

Artisan Studio Version 7.1 now also includes Artisan Publisher, a new, template-driven document and report generator. With input accepted from multiple Artisan Studio models, the ability to add external images and a drag-and-drop facility for building document structure, Artisan Publisher provides an expanding range of out-of-the-box templates for the quick creation of repeatable and configurable output. A preview option also reduces errors and the time spent on the production of larger documents. Artisan Publisher will replace Artisan Studio’s previous document generator.

Improvements have also been made to the UML Activity modeling capability and enhanced support for extra-large models, making Artisan Studio easier, faster and more efficient to use. The UML Activity modeling improvements include new meta-types and symbols, drag-and-drop facilities, the ability to populate diagrams from the dictionary, a consistency checker and the ability to re-use activities across diagrams. Artisan Studio’s ability to support extra-large models has also been significantly improved with the time taken to recondition very large models dramatically reduced several orders of magnitudes from hours to seconds. With versioning now performed per package rather than per model, further significant performance benefits are achieved.

Finally, Artisan Studio Version 7.1 provides improved XMI support with OMG MIWG (Model Interchange Working Group) Test Case 1 compliance, an improved Automated Code Synchronizer with code transformation patterns for C and C++ increasing productivity by reducing the timescale for developing new transformations, C language state machine support and support for Windows 7.

“The launch of Artisan Studio Version 7.1 continues to deliver on our strategy to join up embedded engineering disciplines, teams and organizations enabling diverse and disparate specialists to Work-as-One,” concluded James B. Gambrell, CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “For mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software development, visibility across the entire design process is crucial to timely and effective decision making. It is also fundamental to improving efficiency and productivity, reducing costs and proving compliance with industry-specific formal standards and certification processes. Artisan Studio delivers all this in a single purpose built tool suite.”

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 8th October 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical systems and software, has announced that it has helped successfully steer UPDM (the Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF) to OMG standardization approval. The content definition and preparation of the UPDM 1.0 specification was led by Artisan and No-Magic as co-chairs of the UPDM Group, drawing on the extensive experience of Artisan’s customers in defining DoDAF/MODAF and other defense enterprise architectures using Artisan Studio®.

Standardization of UPDM has been achieved in record time using the Object Management Group’s (OMG) fast-track RFC standardization process resulting in the OMG formally approving UPDM as an OMG standard last week. The UPDM Group was formed in May 2008 and the draft specification was submitted on time to the OMG in September 2008.

“UPDM will generate enormous benefits for defense procurement and developers of military systems in terms of consistency, quality, tool interoperability, model interchange and cost savings.” said Matthew Hause, Chief Consulting Engineer at Artisan Software Tools and co-chair of the UPDM Group. “It is important to stress that UPDM is not a new Military Architectural Framework. Instead, it provides a consistent, standardized means to describe DoDAF and MODAF architectures in UML/SysML-based tools as well as a standard for model interchange and a better means for the flow-down from systems of systems to systems development.”

Fully endorsed by both the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and supported by NATO, the UPDM 1.0 specification defines an industry standard UML/SysML representation for DoDAF 1.5 and MODAF 1.2 compliant enterprise architectures. UPDM, however, will not be a static standard. Other Architectural Frameworks will be supported as UPDM is updated in the future to maintain model exchange compliance, including DoDAF v2.0 (which was recently released in June 2009), NAF (the NATO Architectural Framework) which is very similar to MODAF 1.2, and possibly aspects of the Canadian DNDAF framework.

“Artisan Software Tools’ modeling expertise and in-depth knowledge of DoDAF and MODAF greatly helped to steer this important specification through OMG’s fast, open, neutral standardization process in just a few months,” said Andrew Watson, OMG’s Technical Director. “I’m proud that OMG has been able to address the visual modeling needs of the defense community so quickly and effectively, and I’d like to thank Artisan for its important contribution to this project. I’m confident that using tools implementing OMG UPDM will rapidly become the accepted way to work with defense enterprise architectures.”

In a statement of support for UPDM standardization, Walter J. Okon, Enterprise Architecture & Standards Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Secretary of Defense said: “DoD support for UPDM has always been strong and never wavered, with the DoDAF architects meeting frequently with the UPDM working group to collaborate on modeling concepts and promote convergence. The DoD looks forward to the rapid adoption of UPDM as an industry standard and to the emergence of tools from vendors supporting DoDAF through the standardized UPDM Profile including architecture exchanges through the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI). Now that UPDM is a formal OMG commercial standard, the DoD will consider it for a mandated DoD standard in the DoD IT Standards Registry (DISR).”

“The high level operational benefits that UPDM delivers in terms of time and cost efficiencies are fundamentally important to our customers involved in military and aerospace systems development and we warmly welcome its approval as an OMG standard,” said James B. Gambrell, CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “We are delivering support for UPDM in Artisan Studio Version 7.1 which is due out next week. As a repository-based tool capable of supporting large teams and the levels of collaboration needed for complex architecture development, Artisan Studio is ideally suited for developers of mission and safety-critical systems.”

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About the UPDM Group

The membership of the UPDM Group comprises development tool vendors and defense industry contractors along with representatives of the key Government agency stakeholders – the DoD in the USA and the UK’s MOD. The initial UPDM Group members included: Adaptive, Artisan Software Tools, BAE Systems, DoD, Embeddedplus Engineering, Generic AB representing the Swedish Armed Forces, Lockheed Martin, Mitre, MOD, No Magic, Raytheon, Rolls-Royce and Visumpoint. Other members joined during the finalization process including Mega, Unisys, Thales, and finally IBM. For more information visit: www.UPDM.com.

About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

October 5, 2009 — McObject®, developer of innovative real-time database systems, announced availability of its eXtremeDB™ embedded software platform for set-top box electronic programming guides (EPGs). By rejecting “one size fits all” limitations that encumber other data management solutions, eXtremeDB lends the highest degree of developer flexibility– enabling providers of set-top boxes to reduce costs and offer a richer tool for end-users.

Manufacturers are giving eXtremeDB the highest form of validation: DIRECTV, MOD Systems, Loewe Opta, ST Micro (Genesis Microchip) and others have built McObject’s embedded database into their programming guide technology.

With an EPG, users zero in on relevant programming via show descriptions, schedules, ratings, genre, channel, user preferences and other criteria. In EPG software, manufacturers often facilitate handling this data by integrating a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) database management system (DBMS).

But “database system” is a broad product category, and while some DBMSs specialize in addressing business or packaged software needs, only eXtremeDB was designed from scratch for set-top box programming guides and other real-time embedded systems.

For example, among embedded database systems, eXtremeDB supports the widest range of data types. Among other types, it offers variable length strings, a data type that allows physical storage space to expand or contract, depending on the size of the stored data. Within an electronic programming guide, a show description is ideally stored as a variable length string. It can be nonexistent for the nightly news (it has no description) or can be lengthy for the synopsis of the Friday Night Movie.

Many other embedded database products lack support for variable length strings. The result is that EPG designs must allocate resources based on the “worst case” or maximum possible program description length. This boosts set-top box memory and storage requirements, increasing costs for the manufacturer–and ultimately for the consumer.

Other critical data types eXtremeDB provides for set-top box software are the object-identifier, or OID, used to quickly match objects when a programming guide based on the popular “carousel” model is updated from the cable head-end or satellite transponder, and the variable-length array, which provides flexibility in defining relationships between entities such as “schedule” and “programs”. The latter helps conserve space (memory and storage) in the database, while the former helps make EPG updates fast and invisible to the end-user.

The following are other eXtremeDB capabilities that throw off development restrictions, to the benefit set-top box developers and users:

Hybrid database storage — While most DBMSs store data either in memory or on-disk, McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion technology combines in-memory and on-disk storage, including, if desired, in the same database instance. This proved to be a boon for DIRECTV, which in 2008 selected eXtremeDB as its programming guide embedded database. DIRECTV’s set-top box product family includes some units with hard drives, and others that are disk-less. By enabling both kinds of storage, eXtremeDB Fusion spared DIRECTV the expense, learning curve and support costs of incorporating multiple embedded database products across its set-top boxes.

Multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) — eXtremeDB offers a native programming interface that is fast, and intuitive to learn. It is also type-safe, which catches data-typing errors to eliminate a common source of run-time bugs. But eXtremeDB also provides a SQL ODBC API. As a SQL embedded database, eXtremeDB leverages developers’ familiarity with this universal interface. ODBC permits seamless interoperation with a wide range of external systems, which is a necessity in an age of digital convergence.

Portability — eXtremeDB runs on virtually all operating systems used in consumer electronics, is easily ported to new platforms, and can even run without an OS in “bare bones boards” deployments. The database is designed to perform optimally regardless of platform. With software’s lifespan exceeding that of hardware, manufacturers benefit from this ability to move seamlessly to new operating environments.

Source code available — McObject provides source code for eXtremeDB, for the flexibility to extend features and to give an in-depth understanding of the database engine within an application.

About McObject

Founded by embedded database and real-time systems experts, McObject offers proven data management technology that makes applications and devices smarter, more reliable and more cost-effective to develop and maintain. McObject counts among its customers industry leaders such as EADS, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, IAI, Sandel Avionics, BAE Systems and Boeing. McObject, based in Issaquah, WA, is committed to providing innovative technology and first-rate services to customers and partners. The company can be reached at +1-425-888-8505, or visit www.mcobject.com.

McObject and eXtremeDB are trademarks or registered trademarks of McObject LLC. All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

McObject®, developer of innovative real-time database systems, announced availability of its eXtremeDB™ embedded software platform for set-top box electronic programming guides (EPGs). By rejecting “one size fits all” limitations that encumber other data management solutions, eXtremeDB lends the highest degree of developer flexibility– enabling providers of set-top boxes to reduce costs and offer a richer tool for end-users.

Manufacturers are giving eXtremeDB the highest form of validation: DIRECTV, MOD Systems, Loewe Opta, ST Micro (Genesis Microchip) and others have built McObject’s embedded database into their programming guide technology.

With an EPG, users zero in on relevant programming via show descriptions, schedules, ratings, genre, channel, user preferences and other criteria. In EPG software, manufacturers often facilitate handling this data by integrating a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) database management system (DBMS).

But “database system” is a broad product category, and while some DBMSs specialize in addressing business or packaged software needs, only eXtremeDB was designed from scratch for set-top box programming guides and other real-time embedded systems.

For example, among embedded database systems, eXtremeDB supports the widest range of data types. Among other types, it offers variable length strings, a data type that allows physical storage space to expand or contract, depending on the size of the stored data. Within an electronic programming guide, a show description is ideally stored as a variable length string. It can be nonexistent for the nightly news (it has no description) or can be lengthy for the synopsis of the Friday Night Movie.

Many other embedded database products lack support for variable length strings. The result is that EPG designs must allocate resources based on the “worst case” or maximum possible program description length. This boosts set-top box memory and storage requirements, increasing costs for the manufacturer–and ultimately for the consumer.

Other critical data types eXtremeDB provides for set-top box software are the object-identifier, or OID, used to quickly match objects when a programming guide based on the popular “carousel” model is updated from the cable head-end or satellite transponder, and the variable-length array, which provides flexibility in defining relationships between entities such as “schedule” and “programs”. The latter helps conserve space (memory and storage) in the database, while the former helps make EPG updates fast and invisible to the end-user.

The following are other eXtremeDB capabilities that throw off development restrictions, to the benefit set-top box developers and users:

Hybrid database storage — While most DBMSs store data either in memory or on-disk, McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion technology combines in-memory and on-disk storage, including, if desired, in the same database instance. This proved to be a boon for DIRECTV, which in 2008 selected eXtremeDB as its programming guide embedded database. DIRECTV’s set-top box product family includes some units with hard drives, and others that are disk-less. By enabling both kinds of storage, eXtremeDB Fusion spared DIRECTV the expense, learning curve and support costs of incorporating multiple embedded database products across its set-top boxes.

Multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) — eXtremeDB offers a native programming interface that is fast, and intuitive to learn. It is also type-safe, which catches data-typing errors to eliminate a common source of run-time bugs. But eXtremeDB also provides a SQL ODBC API. As a SQL embedded database, eXtremeDB leverages developers’ familiarity with this universal interface. ODBC permits seamless interoperation with a wide range of external systems, which is a necessity in an age of digital convergence.

Portability — eXtremeDB runs on virtually all operating systems used in consumer electronics, is easily ported to new platforms, and can even run without an OS in “bare bones boards” deployments. The database is designed to perform optimally regardless of platform. With software’s lifespan exceeding that of hardware, manufacturers benefit from this ability to move seamlessly to new operating environments.

Source code available — McObject provides source code for eXtremeDB, for the flexibility to extend features and to give an in-depth understanding of the database engine within an application.

About McObject

Founded by embedded database and real-time systems experts, McObject offers proven data management technology that makes applications and devices smarter, more reliable and more cost-effective to develop and maintain. McObject counts among its customers industry leaders such as EADS, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, IAI, Sandel Avionics, BAE Systems and Boeing. McObject, based in Issaquah, WA, is committed to providing innovative technology and first-rate services to customers and partners. The company can be reached at +1-425-888-8505, or visit www.mcobject.com.

McObject and eXtremeDB are trademarks or registered trademarks of McObject LLC. All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

IACP 2009 Takes Place in Denver Oct. 3-7

LAFAYETTE, Colo.—Cardinal Peak LLC, a contract engineering services provider specializing in embedded products, partnered with Decatur Electronics to bring to market Decatur’s Digital Responder 4000 product. The product will be launched at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference in Denver, October 3-7.

The Digital Responder 4000 is a ruggedized in-car digital video system for law enforcement. The Digital Responder 4000 offers complete integrated video recording, making law enforcement officers more effective in their work.

Cardinal Peak provided engineering consulting services to help Decatur bring the Digital Responder 4000 to market in a timely and cost-efficient manner. The system uses the latest web-based technologies, as well as H.264 video compression, AAC audio compression, and mp4 file formats.

Cardinal Peak’s role spanned definition of high-level requirements for the product’s hardware and software on through development of test plans to ensure a first-rate quality assurance (QA) process. In between, Cardinal Peak:

• Developed detailed technical specifications for the both the in-vehicle and back-office components of the system;

• Identified appropriate sub-system vendors;

• Coordinated and managed the design of the in-vehicle system chassis;

• Designed multiple boards for the system to handle compression, power, external inputs and more;

• Developed the embedded software for the in-vehicle component, based on a Linux platform; and

• Developed the Windows-based back office system management software.

“Our relationship with Cardinal Peak is a deep partnering, and we are very happy with their work,” said Todd Cottle, Digital Responder 4000 project manager for Decatur Electronics. “They are extremely talented engineers, devoid of egos, and focused on getting the product out on time and on the right cost schedule.”

“We are delighted to have partnered with Decatur on this important project,” said Mike Perkins, Cardinal Peak managing partner. “We are looking forward to continuing to help Decatur maintain its competitive edge by bringing state-of-the-art digital video products to the law enforcement market.”

About the IACP Annual Conference

IACP Denver is the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s 116th annual conference. One of the country’s largest law enforcement professional events, the IACP conference attracts more than 15,000 law enforcement professionals as attendees. The annual gathering features more than 150 educational seminars, forums and technical workshops, as well as an expo with more than 800 exhibiting companies. For more information, please visit theiacpconference.org.

About Decatur Electronics

Decatur Electronics has a 50-year history of delivering police radar and other traffic safety tools. Decatur is part of Soncell N.A., which offers a full range of consultancy, design, manufacturing and maintenance of unique, niche market products for use by public safety and government organizations that help to look after the security and public safety of the United States and other countries around the world. Soncell N.A. also comprises TW Mobile Engineering and AEP North America, and is part of the Bowmer & Kirkland corporate family. For more information, please visit decaturradar.com or soncellna.com.

About Cardinal Peak

Cardinal Peak offers companies the fastest, most reliable way to bring embedded products to market. The firm offers end-to-end engineering services, including high-level requirements definition, hardware design, embedded software design, system software design, QA and documentation. Clients engage Cardinal Peak both to deliver contract engineering services and to augment their internal teams with qualified staff members. For more information, please visit cardinalpeak.com.

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Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 1st October 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical systems and software, has added a ‘glossUML’™ capability to Artisan Studio®. An extension to SysML/UML, glossUML enables presentation-quality diagrams to be generated quickly, easily and directly from the models created in Artisan Studio. By improving the visual clarity of Artisan Studio models, glossUML helps to improve communication between all project stakeholders, fundamentally increasing design project understanding. The new glossUML capability is available now in Artisan Studio Version 7.1 released next week.

“Effective communication between all stakeholders is essential to the smooth, expeditious progress of any development project,” said Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Marketing for Artisan Software Tools. “glossUML utilizes graphical techniques to visually improve the clarity of the SysML/UML and UPDM models created in Artisan Studio – making them easier to interpret and understand, particularly by project stakeholders not directly involved in the development process. glossUML creates presentation-ready diagrams of Artisan Studio models enabling them to be cut and pasted directly into tools like Microsoft Powerpoint®, eliminating the time wasted re-drawing diagrams for the purposes of presentations.”

Artisan Studio’s glossUML capability provides a unique combination of graphical features to effectively give SysML/UML/UPDM model diagrams a presentation-ready 3D look-and-feel. With glossUML, Associations can now use curved 3D lines, shadows can be applied to Symbols and Associations, and Symbols can have a bevel or graduated fill. Artisan Studio’s glossUML capability is fully configurable by model, meta-type, stereotype, dictionary item and the Symbol on a diagram. Model-wide style templates can be set up and a thumbnail pane facility shows the whole model diagram while allowing sections of it to be viewed. Users have the option to turn the glossUML capabilities on and off or even to revert back to the standard UML style.

“glossUML fundamentally improves the look-and-feel of the Artisan Studio’s SysML/UML/UPDM model diagrams making them easier to understand. Presentation-ready model diagrams make the whole process of project reporting and communication easier to handle,” concluded Hedley Apperly.

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the release of the Xilinx® Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA Evaluation Kit and Spartan®-6 LX150T FPGA Development Kit. Both kits support the new FMC expansion standard, which enables the addition of add-on modules and easy customization when working with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) applications.

The Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA Evaluation Kit is based on the Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA and showcases a system level approach to low power design for the Spartan-6 family. Designed for use as a general purpose FPGA development board, its low power design also makes the kit ideal for portable instrumentation and battery powered applications. The board is powered by a lithium-ion battery (included), a USB cable connection, or a 12 volt adaptor, and is supported by six high-efficiency portable power management integrated circuits (ICs) from Texas Instruments. The new PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip from Cypress adds 20-bit precision analog, system power management, USB/UART/SPI connectivity, LCD direct drive, CapSense™ touch sensing, and FPGA configuration support. The board provides a low pin count FMC expansion connector for adding FMC daughter cards and sells for $225. This kit will be available for shipment later this year.

The Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA Development Kit is built for video, industrial networking and control, wireless communications, PCIe® expansion, and general FPGA prototyping applications. Based on the Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA with its on-chip 2.5 Gbps transceivers, the kit provides an advanced platform for developing low-cost applications that require high-speed connectivity. The board features high-performance DDR3 memory, 10/100/1G Ethernet interface, two low pin count FMC expansion connectors and sells for $995.

Avnet’s Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA and Spartan®-6 LX150T FPGA kits complement existing development kits from Xilinx that make up the Base Platform of Xilinx’s new Targeted Design Platform strategy. This strategy includes base, domain and market specific targeted design platforms that enable the creation and development of custom system solutions. The two new kits from Avnet join the base platform to provide designers a standard development platform and software package for basic evaluation and development of general FPGA designs. In the future, both companies will offer domain specific targeted technology that adds software and reference designs specific to embedded processing, DSP and connectivity. Additionally, both companies will offer market specific targeted technology that will enable the addition of hardware features via add-on modules, domain software, and reference designs, or IP to target market-specific applications.

“The Spartan-6 LX/LXT FPGA kits are a great way for designers to get started with the new Spartan-6 family from Xilinx,” said Tim Barber, senior vice president of design chain business development for Avnet Electronics Marketing. “Avnet has also aligned with other key suppliers to help incorporate additional technologies and proven reference designs that engineers need to quickly develop a complete solution.”

The Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA Evaluation Kit and Spartan®-6 LX150T FPGA Development Kit will be featured during X-fest 2009 – Avnet and Xilinx’s 37-city global technical seminar series beginning October 6 in San Jose, CA. X-fest offers practical, how-to training for FPGA, DSP and embedded systems designers in locations throughout Asia, Europe, Japan and North America from October 6, 2009 through February 2010. For complete information, about X-fest 2009, including full course descriptions, locations and registration information, please visit: www.em.avnet.com/xfest.

Unicoi Systems, Inc. (Unicoi) proudly announces a new alliance with DELO Systems (DELO), a DELO Group company, to better serve embedded developers in Italy. DELO Systems is now the primary sales, marketing, and technical support agency for Unicoi Systems in all Italian regions.

Greg Coonley, CEO and co-founder of Unicoi Systems, said, “Unicoi has risen to new heights by growing our number of European customers, in the midst of a global economic downturn. Continued incremental growth requires a more robust local presence. We are confident in DELO’s ability to service our existing Italian clientele, while improving our capacity to engage prospective customers in Italy.”

Roberto Tortato, Product Manager for DELO Systems, said, “We are very pleased to be Unicoi Systems’ new distributor in Italy. Unicoi’s Fusion Embedded Software solutions offer a mature and stable product line for our customers. Unicoi provides a reliable, ready-to-use set of embedded software modules and reference designs for networking, multimedia and VoIP based applications.”

As the embedded systems branch of DELO Group, DELO Systems completes its embedded software offering with the addition of Fusion Embedded Software. Simultaneously, Unicoi Systems fulfills a much needed requirement for highly effective, localized support from a respected vendor.

About DELO Group

DELO Group presently covers all Italian regions with its own offices and agencies. Founded in 1981, DELO Group is committed to the marketing of electronic instruments manufactured by well-known foreign enterprises, especially in the communications market. DELO currently enjoys continuous growth and a solid reputation as a reliable and trustworthy organization, providing efficient pre & post-sale service from a highly qualified technical staff and laboratory.

About Unicoi

Unicoi Systems is a leading provider of VoIP and multimedia software and reference designs to embedded device developers and OEMs worldwide. More than 300 companies rely on Unicoi to power their solutions, including Fortune 500 companies Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Verizon, Honeywell, Raytheon, Cisco Systems, and Motorola. For more information, visit www.unicoi.com, email sales@unicoi.com, or call +1 (678) 208-2250 extension 302.

AUSTIN, TX, September 23, 2009 — IT Problem Solver, Inc. (ITPS) and Iflexion today announced their partnership to fulfill the online ordering needs of small and midsized restaurants throughout the world. Introducing Smarter Takeout – the first online ordering platform designed specifically with small to midsized restaurants in mind. This easy to use, state of the art platform will increase any restaurant’s profitability and efficiency through automated order and payment processing. Additionally, Smarter Takeout offers seamless two-way integration between a customer’s Point-of-Sale (POS) system and website, as well as kiosk integration.

Recognizing the growing need for an online ordering system, ITPS (www.itproblemsolver.com) and Iflexion (www.iflexion.com) conducted detailed market research and surveyed restaurants of all sizes. The results were clear, restaurants wanted a system that would automate all aspects of the sale process and increase the overall productivity of an enterprise all while being quick, secure and easy to manage. While there were online ordering products already on the market, there was no solution available that provided this precise combination of features. ITPS and Iflexion got to work, transferring their vision into an innovative software product.

Iflexion used its technological and domain expertise to deliver Smarter Takeout . Requiring fewer employees, this system increases the average order price and order volume by sending online takeout orders directly to the POS software. This automated process eliminates the time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, leading to better staff performance, improved customer experience, and check averages which can be increased by approximately 15-40%.

ITPS and Iflexion are dedicated to offering a product that continues to evolve with the Restaurant industry’s growing and changing needs. Smarter Takeout will soon be available on the basis of SaaS, which enables small and medium sized restaurants to receive a personalized micro-site in just a few clicks. They will no longer need to wait weeks or months to satisfy the online demands of their customers. With Smarter Takeout , online ordering becomes quick, easy and convenient. Learn more about Smarter Takeout at www.smartertakeout.com.

About IT Problem Solver

IT Problem Solver, Inc. uses innovative techniques to maximize the performance of small and medium-sized companies’ information systems, helping them manage key customer and financial information more effectively. ITPS provides professional IT services: 24-hour IT support, web hosting, computer network management, email hosting, software installation and monitoring, data backup, custom software development for companies in the US and across the world, plus much more.

About Iflexion

Iflexion is a global IT solutions company with over 9 years of experience and about 250 employees. It provides full-cycle services in the areas of software development, web-based enterprise solutions, web application and portal development. Combining solid business domain experience, technical expertise, profound knowledge of the latest industry trends and a quality-driven delivery model, Iflexion offers progressive end-to-end web solutions.

Iflexion

www.iflexion.com

115 S Wild Basin Rd

Austin, TX 78746

(512) 402-5287

contact(at)iflexion.com

LDRA tool suite tailors security solution to new Homeland Security and MILS standards from requirements traceability through analysis and test

Embedded Systems Conference, Boston, MA – September 22, 2009. LDRA (Booth 414), a pioneer and global leader in automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools covering the full development lifecycle, has tailored a new security-critical development and certification solution to ensure that the LDRA tool suite can meet today’s growing demand for security-critical software. LDRA has extended its implementation of the CERT C secure coding standard to also meet Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) and new Homeland Security criteria for security-critical software development. Recognizing that static analysis does not expose all software security vulnerabilities, LDRA has integrated this solution into its entire tool suite from analysis through test and requirements traceability.

With the increased dependency on software systems in mission- and safety-critical systems as well as our daily infrastructure, the number of security breaches and attacks has increased. New security vulnerabilities are discovered daily and these cause problems with inadequately protected systems, resulting in security flaws. Studies indicate that a majority of these vulnerabilities can be traced back to a set of common programming errors.

Developing software that avoids these vulnerabilities is driving industries such as transportation, aerospace, defense, finance, and utilities, resulting in an increased interest in secure coding practices. As well, broader industry initiatives highlight the need to combine experience, knowledge and tools for building security into software at every phase of its development. The common goal is to find weaknesses in source code and operational systems, as well as to achieve better understanding and management of software weaknesses in architecture and design.

“With the increased connectivity of software systems, there has been an increase in the number of software security attacks,” noted Robert Seacord, Senior Vulnerability Analyst with Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute that created The CERT C Secure Coding Standard. “Our society has become highly dependent on software applications in mission-, business-, and safety-critical systems. The CERT C Secure Coding Standard enumerates the common programming errors behind the majority of software security vulnerabilities so that these problems can be identified by software testing and analysis tools before they enter production code.”

“LDRA’s founder and Technical Director, along with senior members of the LDRA team, worked with the SEI CERT C team to provide technical expertise in developing the standard,” noted Ian Hennell, LDRA Operations Director. “Through our TBsecure product, we enforce these rules and recommendations to assist in eliminating insecure coding practices and undefined behaviours that lead to exploitable vulnerabilities. Application of the CERT C secure coding standard leads to higher quality systems that are robust and more resistant to attack.”

This release extends LDRA’s CERT C integration to adopt MILS and Homeland Security initiatives. The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the US Department of Homeland Security has sponsored the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) dictionary and Build Security In (BSI). CWE, a dictionary that provides a unified and measurable set of software weaknesses, enables more effective discussion, description, selection and use of software security tools and services. BSI provides practices, tools, guidelines, rules, principles, and other resources that software developers, architects, and security practitioners can use to build security into software in every phase of its development.

“We believe that software security is fundamentally a software engineering problem that must be addressed in a systematic way throughout the software development life cycle,” asserted Hennell. “With systems and software becoming increasingly complex, organizations need tools and methodologies to support them at all stages of software development. By providing a comprehensive set of tools for requirements traceability all the way through the development process to unit testing, LDRA’s tool suite takes developers much closer to their goal of achieving zero defect software development.”

With this release, LDRA brings together two primary types of security—that which can be enforced by static analysis and involves adherence to specific coding rules and creating a firewall that protects a system from the outside world and that which requires a security critical development process and the partitioning of one security level from another within the same system. By combining both of these approaches, LDRA enables developers to not only identify errant and vulnerable code at the language level, but to also find algorithmically deviant code such as a malformed HTTP request which may be correctly coded, but represents a security breach.

To provide secure software development processes, LDRA enhanced its Zero Defect Software Development methodology which integrates and automates software processes from requirements traceability through code, quality, and design review to unit test and test verification with the practices required by MILS/Common Criteria. With the integration of MILS/Common Criteria, the LDRA security-critical solution also incorporates:

• Structural Coverage Analysis and the determination of code structures which have not been exercised by the requirements-based test procedures.

• Control Coupling that provides a visual representation of the control coupling dependence of a given software component on those components that call it or are called by it, including calling frequency.

• Data Coupling that provides information in both the static and dynamic analysis domains, showing all instances of the data items accessed by a software component.

• Requirements Coverage (Traceability) which focuses on verification of whether code properly implements security requirements and the adequacy of those requirements.

• Testing and Structural Code Coverage Measurement that imposes strict structural coverage analysis objectives on the software according to the Common Criteria standard.

“We are committed to delivering software quality and security,” added Hennell. “This security solution demonstrates yet another best-in-class initiative by LDRA to help organizations design systems and software that are on time, on budget and meet their customers’ specified requirements.”

The LDRA tool suite is available for C, C++, Ada 83, Ada 95 and Assembly systems. It is a highly scalable solution that works with large-scale commercial and production systems and is excellent for both legacy code and new code development verification.

Attendees at Embedded Systems Conference can view a demonstration of the security-critical software development techniques or security based static analysis at the LDRA booth #414.

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About the LDRA tool suite

The LDRA tool suite has been derived from many ground-breaking testing techniques developed by LDRA. The LDRA tool suite assists with the eight primary tasks: traceability verification, design, code and quality review, unit testing, target testing, test verification and test management. Focus on all of these key areas is required to achieve an organisation’s software development and maintenance goals. The LDRA tool suite can be used by an entire project team, including developers, QA managers, test engineers, project managers and maintenance/support engineers, to automate the software development lifecycle. Through the deployment of the LDRA tool suite, companies are able to deliver well constructed, documented and tested software and benefit from significant time, cost and operational savings. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

About LDRA

For more than thirty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software used for the automation of code analysis and software testing of safety-critical applications. The LDRA tool suite is used in aerospace, space and defence technology as well as the nuclear energy and automotive industries. Through the use of the LDRA tool suite, companies ensure that their systems are built in accordance with prescribed standards and are durable and reliable in use. The LDRA tool suite is available for a variety of programming languages and supports a wide range of host and target platforms. LDRA is represented world-wide with its head office in the UK and subsidiaries in the USA as well as through an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

Please send reader enquiries to:

Mark James

LDRA Technology, Inc, Lake Amir Office Park,

1250 Bayhill Drive, Suite # 360, San Bruno, CA 94066

Email: mark.james@ldra.com

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 21st September 2009. Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has announced that Artisan Studio Uno™, has been shortlisted for a prestigious Elektra09 award in the Embedded System Product of the Year category.

With thousands of downloads to date, Artisan Studio Uno is a free-of-charge, yet fully-functional, single-user version of Artisan’s award-winning Artisan Studio SysML/UML multi-user development environment. It is the perfect entry-level toolset for standards-based, model-driven systems and software development using SysML/UML, providing systems and software engineers with a quick, easy and cost-free way to get started with SysML/UML.

Artisan Studio Uno delivers the same industrial strength functionality that has earned Artisan Studio its enviable pedigree in supporting collaborative, complex, mission and safety-critical systems and software development for the most demanding customers in the military, aerospace, defence, automotive and medical industries. Capable of providing complete support for the project lifecycle from conception through implementation and maintenance, it is ideal for use both by individual systems and software engineers and small development teams working on real-world projects.

“By providing zero cost of entry, Artisan Studio Uno has fundamentally changed the rules for embedded systems and software design and development using SysML/UML,” said James B. Gambrell, CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “Artisan Studio Uno has thoroughly invigorated the market on projects both large and small. Furthermore, complete model compatibility allows development projects that out-grow Artisan Studio Uno to be seamlessly transitioned to Artisan Studio’s comprehensive collaborative working environment.”

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

Gatineau, PQ, September 14, 2009 — Zeligsoft™, a leading vendor of software development tools to the embedded computing industry, today announced the appointment of Bran Selic to the position of Director of Advanced Technology. In this strategic role, Bran will be responsible for the overall Zeligsoft model-based engineering (MBE) strategy and technology research programs. He will also be a key contributor to the Zeligsoft product direction and roadmap.

Selic has close to 40 years of industrial experience in the design and implementation of large-scale real-time and embedded software in telecom, robotics, and aerospace and is a recognized as a pioneer in the application of modern model-based engineering methods in real-time development, having authored a best-selling technical reference text on this topic. He is on the editorial board of several prominent scientific journals and is a frequent keynote speaker at various technical conferences and events. Bran is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and Carleton University and is involved with a number of ongoing government-funded research initiatives investigating model-based engineering in Canada, France, and Australia.

Prior to joining Zeligsoft, Bran worked for IBM Canada, where he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer. At IBM he was responsible for defining their overall strategy for real-time software development tools. Before that, he co-founded ObjecTime Limited, a highly successful vendor of development tools for the embedded and real-time systems sector (ObjecTime was purchased by Rational Software in 2000). At ObjecTime, he was Vice President for Research and Development and also Vice President for Advanced Technology. While at ObjecTime, Bran was a member of the team that designed the Unified Modeling Language (UML) industry standard, ultimately chairing the UML 2 standardization committee between 2003 and 2008. He also led the team that designed the first industry standard UML profile for real-time systems development and has contributed to several other industry standards.

“Bran is one of the most respected world experts in model-based engineering and embedded system development” said Francis Bordeleau, CEO, Zeligsoft, “For the last 20 years he has been leading the development of modeling languages like ROOM and UML as well as the embedded system development tools of ObjecTime and IBM Rational. His expertise, experience, proven track record and deep passion for technology improvement make him the ideal candidate to lead Zeligsoft advanced technology. We are delighted to have him aboard.”

“Zeligsoft is a company with world-leading expertise and products in the area to which I have dedicated most of my career. They possess both vision and a proven capacity to make that vision a practical reality in an industrial context.” said Bran Selic, Director of Advanced Technology, Zeligsoft. “This is why I am so thrilled to join the team that will undoubtedly advance the state-of-the-art with their products and services, leading to those much-needed quantum leaps in productivity and software quality.”

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About Zeligsoft

Zeligsoft is focused on helping its customers adopt a model-based software engineering approach to the development of their embedded software systems. Built using open platforms, industry-standard frameworks, and domain-specific languages, Zeligsoft’s software development environment offers teams unsurpassed productivity, software quality and opportunity for large-scale collaboration. Complementing Zeligsoft’s proven tools are its widely recognized training and professional services. Zeligsoft’s products and services are delivered to customers around the world from its headquarters in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. For additional information about Zeligsoft, visit the web site at www.zeligsoft.com.

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Legacy SDL models could be imported in PragmaDev tool suite to work on future versions of the ATC. PragmaDev has made the necessary adaptations to perfectly fit in Airbus technical environment including connection to external software modules and graphical user interfaces simulating the Air Trafic Control environment.

“We were assigned by Airbus to look for a technical solution that would support legacy SDL models and integrate in the existing software workbench that includes a certified code generator. Among the main criteria, it was important to establish a last long partnership to secure the investment. After two years of evaluation PragmaDev solution appeared to be the best one on the technical aspect as well as on the financial aspect. We are very satisfied we have set up this constructive partnership with an innovative company” says Eric Saves, contract manager at CS.

“RTDS -Real Time Developer Studio- is today the most advanced SDL tool on the market. The possibility to import existing models allows to secure legacy code and to benefit from a state of the art tool as well as to open up to the latest modeling technology such as UML and SDL-RT. We are very proud to participate in the development of the next generation of European aircrafts” says Emmanuel Gaudin, PragmaDev CEO.

Altia announces that Peter Abowd, its President of Worldwide Automotive, will speak at the IAA SVOX Forum 09. This conference, which will explore the future of speech technology in the automotive and mobile industries, will take place on the grounds of the 63rd International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from September 21-22, 2009.

Altia is proud to participate in this compelling dialogue about speech technology and its future effect on automotive and mobile user interface design. As an experienced designer of automotive communication and interaction systems, Peter Abowd will lend an informed and practiced perspective with his talk, entitled “Product Development: Maintaining a User Focus”. Mr. Abowd will discuss how the key to developing a user-centered design rests in the development team’s ability to maintain a user-centered perspective throughout the product life-cycle. By positioning the user interface tool at the center of the design activity, the focal point of the tools remains on the user experience. Tools that offer both simulation and tool integration capabilities provide the connection to other system engineering and industrial design tools, allowing designers and engineers to work in a user-centered fashion while creating new products.

Before assuming his role as Altia’s President of Worldwide Automotive, Peter Abowd gained industry experience at both Visteon Corporation and Ford Motor Company. He served as Visteon’s Director of Embedded Software Development, overseeing the software development for all Audio/Infotainment, Driver Information and Climate Control products in North America and Europe. Mr. Abowd also developed Visteon’s Visualization and Simulation Laboratory for cross-disciplined development of Human Machine Interfaces utilizing model-based software engineering. He has been awarded two U.S. patents including U.S. Patent 7286975, which applies to a “method for developing embedded code for system simulations and for use in a HMI”.

About SVOX AG

SVOX, a leading supplier of embedded speech solutions, has a reputation for quality and customer focus. SVOX drives adoption of speech user interfaces in automotive and mobile device industries. The company offers Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech Output (TTS) as well as complete Speech Dialog solutions. Our focus on quality and the use of flexible software architectures allows for optimized embedded speech solutions that can be easily tailored to customers’ technical requirements and market needs. For more information, please visit: www.svox.com.

About IAA SVOX Forum 09

SVOX Forum is an annual networking event where executives and experts from leading automotive and mobile companies come together to discuss the future of speech technologies and their impact on Human-Machine Interfaces. For more information, visit www.svox.com/IAA-SVOX-Forum-2009.aspx or e-mail forum@svox.com.

About Altia

Altia, Inc. is a software company that provides user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, Guidant, Lockheed Martin and hundreds of other leading manufacturers. For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or contact Altia’s corporate headquarters at +1 719-598-4299.

Dresden/Germany, 31 August 2009 – ITI GmbH, international leader in virtual system engineering, today announces its debut in Great Britain. The foundation of ITI Northern Europe Limited enables the company to extend its presence on international markets and to provide its customers in Northern Europe with class-leading levels of service support, sales and customer-orientation. ITI also announces the expansion of its Headquarters in Dresden/Germany; software development will be continuously strengthened. Counter the general economic trend, the company performed well in the first half of the year and is financially set for further expansion with sales running stable and an increasing global demand for ITI simulation solutions.

For many years with more than 25 selected distributors on three continents, ITI has been cooperating with a successful network of stand-alone, state-of-the-art partners dedicated to the sales and service of SimulationX, the standard multi-domain software for system simulation. The establishment of the UK facility in Milton Keynes is a debut in ITI history thus tightening its international market position. The new subsidiary has already started operation and acts independently in local sales, marketing, and human resources development. Simulation solutions are provided and supported for SimulationX customers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Chris Litchfield becomes Business and Sales Manager for Northern Europe and will be supported by Emmanuel Domingues, Technical Manager. Each of them brings more than eight years experience in delivering system simulation solutions to a wide range of industries.

„We want to advance our commitment to ITI customers in Northern Europe by providing the world’s highest level of satisfaction in service support and sales of SimulationX thus implementing true innovations together. Our aim is to become a key player on the European CAE market within the next two years,” said Jens O. Schindler, ITI Managing Director, about the aims of the new facility. “In the past years ITI strengthened its position as a leader in virtual system engineering and became an internationally-demanded engineering partner,” adds Dr. Andreas Uhlig, ITI Managing Director, and further explains: “With highly-qualified people and financial strength we are ready for new investments to expand our business. The establishment of the subsidiary is a milestone in ITI’s company history.”

About ITI

For more than 18 years ITI has been one of the internationally leading companies for the virtual system engineering. The software SimulationX is applied by engineers and scientists at more than 600 well-known companies such as Audi, BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen, Continental, Schaeffler, Siemens, Demag, Husky, Nikon, Mitsubishi and Liebherr. SimulationX is also widely used in academics and research world-wide. Main fields of application are power engineering, Power transmission, fluid power, mechanical engineering, power generation and automotive. Apart from this ITI supports its clients in the field of research and development of high-technology with engineering and consulting services. In the field of real-time and HiL test-system applications ITI provides turnkey projects and references for various companies including CNH, Putzmeister or Hoerbiger. Further information on www.iti.de.

About SimulationX

SimulationX – The Driving Force in System Simulation determines the level of modeling, simulating and optimizing complex technical systems. The software models the interaction of components from a multitude of domains including their mutual interaction and feedback on one platform. This significantly distinguishes SimulationX from any other kind of CAE software (FEM, CFD, MBS). SimulationX is the standard in software for evaluation of the interaction of all components in technical systems. It is the universal CAE tool for modeling, simulating and analyzing physical effects – with ready-to-use model libraries for 1D mechanics, 3D multi-body systems, power transmission, hydraulics, pneumatics, thermodynamics, electrics, electrical drives, magnetic as well as controls – post-processing included. SimulationX fully supports Modelica® language and offers a wide range of open, comprehensive CAx-interfaces. Further information on www.simulationx.com.

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Wirral, UK – 28 August 2009. LDRA®, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite with the IBM Rational Rose RealTime model-driven development environment. This integration introduces LDRA’s powerful code quality analysis and code coverage techniques into the domain of model-driven development (MDD) using Unified Modeling Language (UML). The LDRA tool suite supports the analysis, instrumentation, and testing of both auto-generated and user-created source code both from within the Rose RealTime user interface or the LDRA development environment.

Rose RealTime has a proven track record of delivering high-quality embedded applications by supporting MDD benefits such as abstraction, encapsulation and distribution. LDRA’s integration of this environment with the LDRA tool suite combines the strengths of both environments. The integration creates a complete solution which allows models to be checked against coding standards such as MISRA, to be analyzed for potential quality problems, and to be instrumented at the source code level so that model-driven tests deliver coverage metrics alongside test results.

LDRA produces code review, quality review and coverage overview reports that attach to the UML component, ensuring that analysis and testing can be carried out from within the Rose RealTime development environment. Alternatively, the generated source code can be automatically loaded into the LDRA tool suite, allowing the full range of analysis techniques to be applied or unit testing to be executed.

“Although model-driven development is a powerful technique, every model includes a certain amount of hand-crafted code, whether created directly within the model or obtained from a third party,” commented Ian Hennell, LDRA’s Operations Director. “Because of this, the need for code-rule checking and quality analysis remains, even if confidence in the auto-generated code limits this to only a percentage of the complete code base.”

Analysis by the LDRA tool suite can highlight implementation issues during design, allowing them to be fixed before they become a problem. When Rose RealTime capsules and classes are ready to be tested, the LDRA tool suite can instrument the associated source code, offering metrics on the effectiveness of the tests and identifying untested branches and unreachable code. If necessary, code can be transferred to the LDRA tool suite for unit testing to exercise routes through the code which otherwise remain untriggered.

LDRA’s integration of the LDRA tool suite with the IBM Rational Rose RealTime development environment has been written and tested using IBM Rational Rose RealTime v7.0. The integration leverages the makefile and source code structures generated under a UML component so that, while these structures remain unchanged, the integration is forward and backward compatible. For more information about the integration, visit www.ldra.com/integrations.asp or e-mail info@ldra.com for more details.

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About the LDRA tool suite

The LDRA tool suite has been derived from many ground-breaking testing techniques developed by LDRA. The LDRA tool suite assists with the eight primary tasks: traceability verification, design, code and quality review, unit testing, target testing, test verification and test management. Focus on these key areas is required to achieve a company’s software development and maintenance goals. The LDRA tool suite can be used by an entire project team—developers, QA managers, test engineers, project managers and maintenance/support engineers—to automate the software development lifecycle. Through the deployment of the LDRA tool suite, companies are able to deliver well-constructed, documented and tested software, and benefit from significant time, cost and operational savings. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

About LDRA

For more than thirty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software that automates code analysis and software testing of safety-critical, mission-critical and business-critical applications. The LDRA tool suite is widely used in the aerospace, space and defense technology, nuclear energy and automotive industries. Through the use of the LDRA tool suite, companies ensure that their systems are built in accordance to prescribed industry standards and are durable and reliable in use. The LDRA tool suite is available for a number of programming languages over a wide range of host and target platforms. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA is headquartered in the UK with subsidiaries in the United States and an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

Please send reader enquiries to:

Mark James

LDRA, Portside, Monks Ferry, Wirral, CH41 5LH, UK

Email: mark.james@ldra.com

QA&TEST, the International Conference on QA and Testing Software for Embedded Systems, will hold the 8th edition on 21, 22 and 23 October in Bilbao, Spain. The Programme of QA&TEST, conformed by 2 tutorials, 3 keynotes and 20 presentations, will join renowned world-wide experts in Testing and QA Software, like Mary Poppendieck, Dr. Bruce Douglass form IBM and Guillaume Brat, form NASA.

Dr. Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist for IBM, will give the opening keynote of the Conference. Dr. Douglass has more than 30 years of experience designing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He has designed and taught courses in object-orientation, real-time and safety-critical systems development. Dr. Douglass has written over a hundred magazine articles and is a well-known author of technical books, like Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems (2006) and Real-Time Agility: Agile Methods for Real-Time and Embedded Systems (2009).

The second keynote of QA&TEST will be given by Miss Mary Poppendieck, international expert in agile software. Mary Poppendieck has a long experience in software development, and she is a specialist in managing software projects. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development. In 2006, she published a second book based on her on-going learning; Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Mr. Hung Q. Nguyen, responsible for the strategic direction and executive business management of Logigear, will be in charge of the third keynote of the Conference. Mr. Nguyen leads the company’s innovative approach to software testing, test automation, testing tool solutions and testing education programs. Mr. Nguyen is coauthor of the top-selling book in the software testing field, Testing Computer Software (2002) and other publications including Testing Applications on the Web

In this edition of QA&TEST, the testing and QA software in the aeronautic and aerospace industry will have special importance, with the presence of representatives of NASA, GMV Aerospace and Defense and Israel Aircraft Airlines.

You will find more information about QA&TEST at the oficial website of the Conference: www.qatest.org.

MONROVIA, CA- August 12, 2009 – Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions and infrastructure services that improve software quality and the development process, today announced the release of Parasoft Concerto. Parasoft Concerto integrates and facilitates the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure that quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently.

Parasoft Concerto complements an organization’s existing technical infrastructure, connecting distributed components (e.g. requirements management, defect tracking, source control management, etc.) in order to better facilitate natural human workflow. Parasoft Concerto manages “what” needs to be accomplished within the context of “how” management expects those tasks to be accomplished. More importantly, the system allows managers to establish their working expectations via a policy. Policies are monitored “behind the scenes” within an unobtrusive, invisible infrastructure that only interacts with (nudges) staff when policies are not being followed as expected. Policies, which are monitorable in real-time, increase efficiency by reducing the need for long meetings and removing rework.

“Over the years, Parasoft explored many different tools and technologies that held promise for improving code, application, or project quality,” said Adam Kolawa, CEO of Parasoft Corporation. “Parasoft’s research and development not only explored these options from an internal productivity perspective, but also from the business value perspective—given our history of selling development organizations tools that assist in preventing software defects. I feel that Parasoft Concerto is an optimal combination of tools, processes, and infrastructure that can increase development productivity by orders of magnitude.”

Parasoft Concerto is an Application Lifecycle Management solution that provides a comprehensive and objective view of SDLC tasks as well as application quality and project risks. It helps organizations:

• Set expectations

• Govern workflow

• Manage tasks

• Achieve quality

• Monitor compliance

For example, Parasoft Concerto’s Report Center, which is one of the solution’s integrated components, helps managers:

• Verify whether a project is on budget

• Validate that the required quality is achieved based on the policies

• Determine when additional resources are needed (for instance, because the work has become more complex than expected)

Join the Parasoft Concerto Software Management Webinar on August 26 at 1:00pm ET.

To learn more about Parasoft Concerto, please visit www.parasoft.com/ALM.

About Parasoft

For 20 years, Parasoft has investigated how and why software errors are introduced into applications. Our solutions leverage this research to deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. This promotes strong code foundations, solid functional components, and robust business processes. Whether you are delivering Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), evolving legacy systems, or improving quality processes—draw on our expertise and award-winning products to increase productivity and the quality of your business applications. For more information, visit www.parasoft.com.

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The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and audio manufacturer Projects Unlimited, Inc. (PUI Audio), have signed a distribution agreement. PUI Audio’s extensive line of audio technology products is now available from Avnet in the Americas.

PUI Audio has been providing innovative sound solution technology to customers for over 50 years. After developing a telephone test set for the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s, PUI Audio has continued to evolve as a leading developer and manufacturer of buzzer and indicator technology. PUI indicators, speakers and microphones can be found in a variety of market segment applications including medical glucose meters and infusion pumps, industrial scissor lifts and construction equipment, and consumer MP3 players, golf carts, gas pumps, ATM machines and fish finders.

“Today’s customers require innovative technology and supply chain services to meet their off-the-shelf and custom design needs as quickly and efficiently as possible. PUI’s wide range of audio products and expertise in this area provides a unique avenue for us to better service these needs and deliver the quality solutions they have come to expect from Avnet,” said Alex Iuorio, senior vice president of supplier management for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas.

“We are very excited about the addition of Avnet to our distribution channel. Both companies are respected and trusted names within the industry and will work together to achieve success as resources, expertise and strengths are combined to fulfill customer needs throughout the Americas,” said Jack Hampshire, vice president of PUI Audio. “Together Avnet and PUI Audio are dedicated to providing complete support for our mutual customers, by offering breadth of product and innovation, technical and engineering support, design services, and a commitment to customer satisfaction that brings with it the potential for unlimited success. Our partnership with Avnet will only help strengthen our position as a world-class ‘sound’ solution.”

For more information about PUI Audio products, please visit www.em.avnet.com/pui

WALTHAM, Mass., August 12, 2009, —Black Duck Software, global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today released analysis of data from its KnowledgeBase showing shifts in the growth of programming languages used in open source projects. The analysis, www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/projects#language[...], which looked at language usage, determined by counting lines of source code across all open source projects, shows static programming languages losing share to dynamic languages.

When analyzing project releases from the past 12-months, static programming languages C, C++ and Java are being used less often (-1.8 percentage points of share) in open source projects than dynamic languages JavaScript and PHP (+2.4 percentage points). Also gaining are SQL (up over 1 percentage point) and Ruby (+0.2 percentage point).

Data points drawn from the analysis include:

* 36% of projects with a release in the last 12 months included JavaScript, the most-used and fastest-growing scripting language. More projects overall have used JavaScript than Java by a margin of 3 percentage points.

* 65% of open source code is C, C++, and Java.

* 80% of open source is C, C++, Java, Shell and JavaScript. JavaScript is the only one of these languages gaining in share – up over 2 percentage points in terms of number of lines of code.

* C is the only language that has broken the billion lines-of-code barrier.

“Black Duck’s data is consistent with what IDC is finding on the shift of application development towards web architectures,” said Al Hilwa, Program Director for Application Development Software at IDC. “Languages associated with web applications such as JavaScript and PHP are showing greater growth when compared with traditional languages used for business logic of applications such as Java, C and C++,” Mr. Hilwa continued.

Black Duck Software gathers information by continuously spidering the Internet collecting open source code and binary files into the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a comprehensive database of open source software and associated license and other information. The KnowledgeBase covers over 200,000 projects collected from over 4,300 code forges and repositories. Black Duck, which has collected information on tens of billions of lines of code, never deletes data and has amassed a significant amount of code that is no longer available from the original hosting sites.

The Black Duck OSS resource center (www.blackducksoftware.com/oss) contains a variety of data about open source projects and licensing. The project page (www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/projects) is dynamically updated with language market share data as code is added to the Black Duck KnowledgeBase. The OSS project page also displays a list of top search terms from Koders.com, Black Duck Software’s free open source code search engine. For more information on the Black Duck OSS Resources Center, visit blackducksoftware.com/oss.

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 22nd July 2009. Today, Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, announced that it has acquired the HOOD Bridge technology from Objektum Solutions and renamed it Artisan HOOD Bridge. In addition, key personnel from Objektum will be working with Artisan in its legacy migration efforts, while also continuing to support existing customers.

“Many organizations have made significant investments in modeling tools to support their systems and software development projects. However, external influences such as hardware, platform and skills obsolescence have created substantial risks to the ongoing success of these companies.” said James B. Gambrell, CEO of Artisan Software Tools. “Numerous military and aerospace projects were designed and developed using now obsolete HOOD toolsets. I am, therefore, thrilled to announce this acquisition as the Artisan HOOD Bridge gives these companies a pragmatic path to modern Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools such as Artisan Studio.”

As well as hardware, platform and skill obsolescence, many legacy tools just don’t provide the facilities to keep the design and implementation in step. This results in the code base deviating from the design, leading to outdated and worthless designs. Modern modeling notations and tools, such as the UML and Artisan Studio, are more appropriate for the development of large-scale systems and software, resolving this synchronization issue and future proofing the designs.

“The Artisan HOOD Bridge technology precisely maps the elements of the HOOD designs and Ada source to a UML model,” stated Derek Russell, Managing Director at Objektum Solutions. “UML artifacts are generated for each element based on these mapping rules. As elements are created, automatic checking ensures integrity and consistency. Rare mismatches are flagged for resolution, ensuring traceability and the highest level of migration fidelity. Pairing Artisan HOOD Bridge with the appropriate services certainly makes Artisan the one-stop shop for legacy model migration, providing an international distribution and support capability.”

The Artisan HOOD Bridge analyzes HOOD detailed designs and/or Ada source code, enabling engineers to correct errors in the original design, compare HOOD designs with Ada source code and merge Ada source code with existing HOOD designs. This results in the automatic generation of new Artisan Studio UML models from the original legacy HOOD designs and/or Ada code. To ease the adoption of UML by users familiar with HOOD, Artisan Studio’s ergonomic profiling capabilities have been exploited to present users with familiar HOOD diagrams in Studio.

The Artisan HOOD Bridge is used by the Nimrod project team at BAE Systems. The Artisan HOOD Bridge migration solution is providing them with the ability to transition the project to a mainstream methodology with comparative ease and at minimal cost, ensuring they have the ability to continue to develop and maintain their legacy systems. The solution provides protection against ageing tools with diminishing support, protection against the lack of HOOD expertise resulting from what is fast becoming an obsolete methodology and future-proofing of the project through better alignment with industry standards.

“The Artisan HOOD Bridge and its associated professional services are already proven enablers for design tool modernization and risk reduction within a significant number of organizations.” said Hedley Apperly, VP Marketing at Artisan Software Tools. “As well as appealing to existing HOOD users and Artisan Studio customers, we plan to extend this indispensable technology. Taking advantage of our position as the leading independent modeling tool vendor in our market, we are already working on migration from other legacy modeling tools, as well as migration to alternative UML modeling tools.”

Further information on how Artisan can help migrate legacy HOOD designs and/or Ada source code to Artisan Studio, to significantly reduce development costs and future maintenance, go to www.artisansoftwaretools.com/products/LegacyBri[...].

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About Artisan Software Tools

Artisan® Software Tools is the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission-critical systems and software. Artisan has delivered a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding sectors including military, aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, telecommunications and electronics, and medical. Artisan’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Artisan WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Artisan’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing systems and software engineering teams to Work as OneTM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 1997 with extensive venture capital backing, Artisan is headquartered in the USA and UK with offices in Germany and Italy, supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.ArtisanSoftwareTools.com.

San Francisco, California – JULY 20, 2009 – CoFluent Design, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced that CoFluent Studio allows the creation and automatic generation of SystemC models for CoWare® Platform Architect and Synopsys Innovator products.

Models can be integrated to virtual platform environments through the OSCI standard TLM-2.0 interface, offering a continuous development flow from executable specifications to virtual platforms.

Virtual platform environments provide an efficient solution for creating SystemC-based virtual hardware platforms for embedded software development with fast instruction-accurate instruction set simulators (ISS). Creation of a virtual platform model relies on the assembly of models of standard IP blocks available in library.

CoFluent Studio users create virtual system models for early architecture exploration and performance prediction. Models are built from graphical diagrams customized with time and performance attributes.

A complete virtual system model including hardware, software and use case descriptions can be obtained with low effort before the first line of hardware or software code is available.

CoFluent models are translated into TLM SystemC for simulation and performance data extraction.

The same generated SystemC code, obtained with significant productivity gains compared to hand-programming, can be used in virtual platform environments when proprietary/new IP can’t be found in vendors’ libraries.

Test cases developed and validated earlier can also be reused with virtual platforms.

“Our customers need the power of the abstraction level offered by CoFluent Studio to rapidly create innovative components and systems, enabling them to apply for patents before their competitors,” said Stéphane Leclercq, CEO of CoFluent Design. “Once proprietary IP models are optimized and validated at the functional and architectural level in the context of the full virtual system with CoFluent, they can be integrated to a more detailed virtual platform simulation and serve as executable specifications for implementation.”

“SystemC standards-based model interoperability is a key requirement for our customers,” said Tom De Schutter, Marketing Manager, IP Models, at CoWare. “The support of SystemC and TLM by our partners is a welcome step, enabling our joint customers to leverage these models in our production-proven CoWare Platform Architect environment.”

“Connecting early architecture exploration and virtual platforms for embedded software development and verification has the potential to increase overall productivity,” said Frank Schirrmeister, Director, Product Marketing at Synopsys. “CoFluent has taken advantage of the Synopsys System-Level Catalyst program to enable interoperability for the SystemC model ecosystem.”

CoFluent Design has joined CoWare’s CoTeam partner program and ported its simulation library to CoWare Platform Architect’s SystemC kernel.

The new CoFluent SystemC Library (SCL) for CoWare product is available now as an addition to its CoFluent Studio v3.0 integrated modeling environment.

CoFluent Design has also joined Synopsys System-Level Catalyst Program and adapted its simulation library to interface to Synopsys Innovator using OSCI TLM-2.0 APIs.

The new CoFluent SystemC Library (SCL) for Synopsys Innovator will be available in the fall as an addition to its next CoFluent Studio v3.1 integrated modeling environment.

About CoFluent Design:

CoFluent Design™ provides system-level modeling and simulation tools that enable embedded device and chip designers to imagine and validate new concepts and architectures. CoFluent Studio™ generates SystemC transactional models from graphics and standard C that describe complex multi-OS, multi-core systems in consumer electronics and telecoms. CoFluent Reader™ enables efficient exchange of executable specifications with all project stakeholders and contractors.

CoFluent is used throughout the product development lifecycle for:

· Innovation: capturing with minimal effort the design intent in reusable models that mix new features and legacy, allowing for early patent application

· Optimization: finding the optimal architecture and power efficiency through design space exploration free of the full hardware/software code

· Validation: defining use case scenarios for validating the real-time behavior, predicting performance and generating test cases for implementation

For further details please visit: www.cofluentdesign.com

or send an email to info@cofluentdesign.com.

Contact:

Vincent Perrier, CoFluent Design

Phone: +33 2 51 13 52 84

E-mail: vincent.perrier@cofluentdesign.com

All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

Nuremberg, Germany – JULY 20, 2009 – CoFluent Design, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced that Siemens runs SystemC models created with CoFluent Studio on the CoWare® Platform Architect SystemC kernel.

“Siemens uses CoFluent Studio to create timed transactional models of its complex Industrial Ethernet switch component”, said Andreas v. Schwerin, Director Electronic System Simulation at Siemens in Nuremberg. “CoFluent’s graphical modeling and simulation environment allows fast and easy design and validation of the component’s functional architecture and timing constraints.

CoFluent Studio is used in the innovation process and allows validation of the component model in the context of virtual platform simulation. CoFluent Studio generates SystemC code for CoWare Platform Architect from the graphical component description. The generated SystemC model was successfully integrated into our virtual platform through standard TLM and SCML interfaces and enabled successful system simulation.”

Virtual platform environments provide an efficient solution for creating SystemC-based virtual hardware platforms for embedded software development with fast instruction-accurate instruction set simulators (ISS). Creation of a virtual platform model relies on the assembly of models of standard IP blocks available in library. Proprietary or third-party IP that can’t be found in the vendor’s library have to be modeled by the user or a subcontractor.

“CoFluent Studio offers an alternative to the manual modeling of new IP and test cases for virtual platforms by providing an efficient graphical modeling entry and automatic SystemC TLM code generation” said Vincent Perrier, Co-founder and Director of CoFluent Design. “It offers up to 10x productivity gains compared to hand-programming and can be used by non-SystemC experts. It significantly accelerates the availability of a complete virtual platform environment and facilitates the creation of application-realistic workload use cases when software is not available yet.”

About CoFluent Design:

CoFluent Design™ provides system-level modeling and simulation tools that enable embedded device and chip designers to imagine and validate new concepts and architectures. CoFluent Studio™ generates SystemC transactional models from graphics and standard C that describe complex multi-OS, multi-core systems in consumer electronics and telecoms. CoFluent Reader™ enables efficient exchange of executable specifications with all project stakeholders and contractors.

CoFluent is used throughout the product development lifecycle for:

· Innovation: capturing with minimal effort the design intent in reusable models that mix new features and legacy, allowing for early patent application

· Optimization: finding the optimal architecture and power efficiency through design space exploration free of the full hardware/software code

· Validation: defining use case scenarios for validating the real-time behavior, predicting performance and generating test cases for implementation

For further details please visit: www.cofluentdesign.com

or send an email to info@cofluentdesign.com.

Blunk Microsystems, LLC, announces an upgrade to their TargetTLS™ product to support the latest standardized security enhancements. Previously supporting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3.0 and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0, this upgrade adds TLS 1.1 support, which closes an emerging vulnerability in Chain Block Cipher (CBC) based encryption algorithms.

TargetTLS™ is the only source licensable security solution integrated into the BSD Sockets API. Any listening stream socket based application can be upgraded to use SSL/TLS via a single Ioctl call during socket creation! Don’t waste time rewriting your application to support security. By upgrading existing TCP applications to use the latest security technology with a single Ioctl call, your team stays focused on the core application without becoming distracted by ever evolving security requirements.

Using TargetTCP™ with TargetTLS™ upgrades the included FTP and Telnet servers to support the FTP-over-TLS and Telnet-over-TLS protocols. TargetTLS™ is also integrated with TargetWeb™, Blunk’s embedded web server, to add HTTPS support to your application. Contact Blunk Microsystems for more information or for a quote to upgrade your products today.

About Blunk Microsystems

Blunk Microsystems has been providing leading edge high-performance embedded systems software for over fourteen years. All Blunk Microsystems embedded products are implemented in tight, non-GPL code to be fast, small, reliable, and shippable. Blunk’s products include an RTOS, TCP/IP stack, file systems, embedded web server, board support packages, and integrated GNU-based development environment. See www.blunkmicro.com for additional information or call (408) 323-1758.

CRANSTON, RI – McCabe Software, Inc. announced that Kinetics Drive Solutions Inc. (KDS) of Langley, British Columbia, Canada has selected McCabe IQ Test Team Edition to achieve the stringent software test coverage requirements mandated by KDS customers. McCabe IQ was evaluated against a comprehensive list of software quality analysis solutions.

KDS demanded test coverage data and analysis for roughly 100,000 lines of embedded C code in support of their current project, related to the design of heavy duty off-road military vehicles. They ultimately selected McCabe IQ Test Team Edition because it provided comprehensive dynamic analysis and reporting of test coverage for the embedded code well beyond that of other vendor solutions.

“Our technology has proven to be a powerful asset to organizations in search of higher quality mission, safety, and business critical embedded applications for over 30 years,“ says David Belhumeur, CEO. “I am certain that Kinetic Drive Solutions will find the same success.”

KDS is a Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) company specializing in advanced transmission and vehicle drive systems with unique technologies in Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT) systems. Their advanced transmission systems are designed for military and commercial vehicles, for both on and off-road use. Their parent company, ST Engineering, is also a valued McCabe customer and a global leader with engineering capabilities spanning the aerospace, electronics, marine, and land systems industries.

About Kinetics Drive Solutions, Inc.

Kinetics Drive Solutions, Inc. (KDS), formerly called Int Silvatech Industries. Inc., established itself in 1991 as an advanced transmission and vehicle drive systems company with unique technologies in Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT) systems. Based in British Columbia, Canada, Kinetics Drive Solutions, Inc is a leading design house providing innovative heavy duty drive and control solutions for mobile system applications and has the capabilities for vertically integrated design, engineering, testing, prototyping and production.

About McCabe Software, Inc.

McCabe Software provides Software Quality Management and Software Change & Configuration Management solutions worldwide. “McCabe IQ” is used to analyze and visualize the quality and test coverage of mission, life, and business critical applications, utilizing a comprehensive set of advanced software metrics including the McCabe-authored Cyclomatic Complexity metric. Our configuration management solution, “McCabe CM”, utilizes exclusive Integrated Difference technology to manage software changes faster and more efficiently, ensuring quality throughout the Application Lifecycle. McCabe Software has offices in the United States and distribution worldwide

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