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Accelerated Technology, located in Mobile,Alabama, is the provider of the Nucleus Family of Embedded Software Components which supply multi-tasking networking, file system, and debugging support capabilities. Nucleus Products enhance your ability to get products to market quickly. Accelerated Technology gives assistance for the development of embedded systems. They do this by eliminating engineering delays and the problems created by developing an operating system and even the pains of dealing with less responsive vendors.

The AMPredictor Signal Integrity Analyzer (SIA) from AMP is an integrated suite of simulation and interface tools for identifying and correcting signal integrity problems in interconnection systems so that prototypes can work the first time - reducing time to market. The Signal Integrity Analyzer has an intuitive graphical user interface that integrates printed circuit board and connector design areas with powerful simulation and parameter extraction engines, plus comprehensive applications and interconnection design tutorials. Thus, the SIA can be used immediately and effectively by design engineers who have little experience in signal integrity. In addition, the SIA provides access to the AMPSPICE and electromagnetic field solver engines for customized investigation by signal integrity experts.

Ariel is a worldwide expert in applying advanced technologie to create unique and innovative products for OEMs, system integrators, VARs, and end users in the data communications, RAS (Remote Access Servers), computer telephony, telecommunications, and OEM DSP board markets. Ariel's core competence in high-performance multiprocessor digital signal processing (DSP) technologies gives us the expertise to deliver uniquely valuable solutions to our customers.

Avocet Systems is a one stop shop for all high quality embedded development tools. Avocet Systems develop and sell assemblers, C compilers, simulators, and ICE's for many 8 and 16 bit chips. These products have steadily improved and matured over its 17 year history. They were the first with personal computer based cross-assemblers and the first with a complete integrated embedded solution for the 8051.

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Brainstorm Engineering Company is a Florida Corporation located in the Tampa Bay area. Evolving from a consulting group dating back to 1981, Brainstorm was incorporated in 1985, and has since been creating Hi-tech Masterpieces for clients all over the US. With the introduction of its first real-time operating system in April of 1994, Brainstorm made an impressive debut in the development tools market, and today benefits embedded system designers worldwide.

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Bristol Technology	Wind/u	Cross platform development	C, C++

Bristol Technology Inc. delivers cross-platform solutions. Bristol develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U(R) family of products, cross-platform development software that enables developers to build Windows 95, Windows NT, OpenVMS and OS/390 applications based on a single source code. Bristol's product line consists of WindU, cross-platform development software; HyperHelp(tm), the industry-standard software for creating UNIX-based online help systems with WinHelp functionality; Xprinter(tm), software for adding sophisticated printing capabilities to UNIX-based applications, and Jprinter, the printing system for Java.

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Companies manufacturing embedded products face common software challenges. The application coding cycle must be reduced while product complexity continually increases. Stated simply, "time-to-market" is perhaps the single most important factor for maximizing a companies potential revenue. Since 1984 CAD-UL Corporation has produced mature and sophisticated embedded application development tools for companies determined to remain one step a head of their competitors. CAD-UL provides the compiler, assembler, linker, loader, library, native symbolic debugger, cross symbolic debugger, and a project oriented integrated development environment (IDE) called Workbench. Customers may encapsulate other companies third party tools or their own internally developed tools into the Workbench.

Chorus Systems is a leading supplier of operating system products for telecommunications and intelligent communication devices (ICD) markets. Chorus Systems developed the first commercially available microkernel-based operating system (OS) for the computing, telecommunications, and embedded systems markets and shipped its first product the year it was founded. Chorus has successfully licensed this OS technology to major telecommunications and computer manufacturers for the past 10 years and has in excess of 200,000 installations deployed on a world-wide basis.

Code Farms Inc. is a small group of financially independent specialists, they sell and support their products world-wide, mainly through email and fax. Many large, high performing systems have been successfully developed with their software, mainly in US industrial regions.For designing a C++ project with complex interacting classes and/or storing data to disk, Code Farms has libraries and tools that simply have no competition.

Unique library, lets you use design patterns as if they were simple collections. It is based on intrusive data structures, and implemented with C++ templates. No code generation, comes in full source. Includes: Lists, Collections, Dynamic Arrays, Composite, Flyweight, and a fast, dynamically configurable Finite State Machine. A new product called Pattern Template Library, sells directly from the web, and includes documentation in the HTML format. The cost is US$146. Click here for a free demo.

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DDC-I is a global supplier of software development tools for embedded applications. The company provides compiler systems and run-time systems for Ada and JOVIAL application development. DDC-I focuses on the needs of the safety critical industries such as air transport, aerospace, military, medical and process control.

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emWare is an embedded software company which produces the industry's smallest Web server. This 1K embedded Web server enables people to manage and control electronic devices using the familiar interface of a Web browser. It is the only embedded Internet solution small enough to scale from microcontrollers to microprocessors, making it a fast, inexpensive and easy-to-implement technology for all electronics manufacturers. The emWare software developer's kit (SDK) offers a complete end-to-end solution from the interface at the client, to the software at the microcontroller.

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Companies worldwide have relied on FairCom's superior commercial database tools since 1979. For eighteen years, c-tree Plus remains the choice of engineers for reliable and powerful cross platform C/C++ database development. Whether you require a small memory footprint for an embedded solution; the ability to move from single/multi-user to client/server modes; or want to harness the flexibility of ODBC/Java interfaces, FairCom offers the professional C programmer the best database solution available on the market today.

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Galil provides a wide range of products to solve any motion control problem, from high performance motion controllers to software tools and servo amplifiers.

Geodyssey is the developer and publisher of Hipparchus. Hipparchus (the ancient Greek) invented latitudes and longitudes and was the first to measure distances in terms of angles. Hipparchus, (our product) is an "Open GIS" toolkit that enables software developers to incorporate geography into their applications without the use of monolithic geographic information system (GIS) solutions. Use of the Hipparchus Library of C language functions permits the C or C++ language developer to deal with the "where" of things without requiring arbitrary proprietary database management systems (DBMS) or graphical user interface (GUI). Firmly founded in the science of geodesy, Hipparchus combines the speed and precision of 3D ellipsoidal vector algebra with a novel spatial indexing scheme to provide lightning-fast, seamless geographic functionality.

Greenleaf offers development and serial port analysis tools to meet your needs!

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Harris and Jeffries, Inc., (H&J) based in Dedham, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California, is the industry's ultimate ATM software source. The company also has full service partners who have been trained to sell and technically support H&J's products in Europe and in Asia to meet the growing market demands in those regions of the world. H&J provides its source code to over 100 major networking manufacturers, OEMs and integrators worldwide. H&J's software incorporates high-performance code, an advanced architecture, and a leading-edge engineering toolkit. It enables customers to achieve fast time-to-market with reduced development costs while creating technically advanced products with market-leading performance capabilities. H&J's expertise includes ATM, frame relay, network management, SNMP, RISC, real-time operating, embedded and proprietary systems.

Founded more than thirty years ago, today HP is a global manufacturer of wireless and optoelectronic components. Their products and technologies support industry initiatives such as the digital information highway, the extended desktop, personal information appliances and multimedia communications.

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IAR Systems develops and markets software development tools for programming and debugging embedded applications using microcontrollers. IAR Systems development team is among the most qualified in the world within this area. As a direct result of the highly advanced technology developed by IAR, we are now involved in various activities for many of the most important manufacturers of microcontrollers, such as Hitachi, Intel, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Texas Instrument, Toshiba and others. IAR Systems products are being sold in about 35 countries around the world via our subsidiaries, agents and distributors.

Industrial Programming, Inc. (IPI) is the developer of the MTOS family of real-time operating systems. MTOS versions are available for the Intel 808x8 and Motorola 68K processor families, as well as the PowerPC and MIPS 3000/4000. IPI was the first independent software firm to introduce real-time operating systems to the commercial marketplace. Since 1976, thousands of licensees around the world have produced millions of products that contain embedded copies of MTOS. MTOS products are, at the same time, feature-rich and compact. They can be used effectively in small-to-moderate projects, as well as in the very largest systems. They are used widely in telecommunications, radar, medical apparatus, process control, factory automation and a wide variety of other applications.

Inner Media, Inc. is a publisher of personal computer software products. The company was founded in 1985 by Neil Rosenberg and Glen R. Horton, Sr. The emphasis at Inner Media is to provide software solutions that are well thought-out, conservatively crafted, heavily tested, and well documented. Extreme attention to detail ensures you that you can make use of our products with confidence, and spend your valuable time concentrating instead on what you want to achieve.

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JMI Software provides Real-time Kernels(RTOS), a real-time, multi-tasking, ROMable kernel for embedded systems, C EXECUTIVE for 8-, 16- and 32-bit CISC processors, a wide variety of RISC processors, and DSP. RTOS provides fast context switching, small kernel size, and support for over 20 processors. Optional DOS-compatible file system, TCP/IP, and SNMP are also available. PSX provides an optional subset of POSIX.1 system calls. Pictures and descriptions of some customers' products are available. JMI's real-time kernels are used in hundreds of embedded applications, including laser printers, electronic cash registers, medical instruments, FAA radar displays, military and aerospace applications, and many other time critical systems.

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Lenel Systems International develops and markets advanced multimedia OCXs, VBXs, and development toolkits for Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Access, Borland Delphi, Powerbuilder, and virtually any Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT development environment.

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MarshallSoft Computing, Inc., is a software development company headquartered in Huntsville, AL. The company has been in business over 6 years developing serial communications software and related products for MSDOS and Windows. Their serial communications libraries are in use in tens of thousands of sites around the world. Their customers include many governments, research labs, schools & universities, small companies, and international corporations. They have developed communications libraries for C/C++, Turbo Pascal, Power Basic, Visual Basic, and Delphi.

Micro Digital is the developer of the SMX Modular RTOS, including the SMX real-time multitasking kernel, TCP/IP stack, file manager, integrated graphical user interfaces, protected mode support, DOS emulation, disk and network drivers, task-aware debuggers, and C++ support. They currently specialize in the x86 and PowerPC microprocessor families.

Micro/sys was started in 1976 to spread the use of microprocessor technology into dedicated, embedded control and measurement systems. Using 8080A microprocessors at first, the company's initial products offered AC power control and timekeeping functions. Peripheral control, system expansion, development systems, and I/O functions followed quickly. Micro/sys embraced open system standards from the beginning, as they offer our customers the most flexibility and assure competitive pricing. Product offerings have included MULTIBUS, STD Bus, VMEbus, PC/104, and PC/104 Plus standards, and company personnel have served on the Boards of a number of bus-related industry associations

Microtec, founded in 1975, is an ISO 9001-certified and leading supplier of proven, integrated and open embedded software development tools, real-time operating systems solutions and services to more than 50,000 users worldwide. The company's pioneering Spectra development system, XRAY Pro debug suite featuring the XRAY debugger, C and C++ cross-compilers, and VRTX real-time operating system (RTOS) are used to develop embedded applications for telecommunications, data communications, medical, transportation, industrial control and consumer electronics equipment. Microtec is a division of Mentor Graphics Corporation, a leading provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and services with more than $440 million in annual sales.

Microware Systems Corp. designs, real-time operating system software design and development for advanced consumer, communications, and industrial products. This includes devices for the emerging consumer products market, like: Wireless Communications: Ericsson, Motorola and IBM are examples of key Microware partners for integration of Microware software into two-way pagers and other personal mobile communications devices; Internet Appliances: Alliances with companies like Uniden and Sun Microsystems, Inc. address the demands for Web-enabled televisions, network computers, cellular phones, and other Internet-enabled consumer devices; Digital Television: Microware's software for multimedia powers today's digital interactive television set-top boxes -- from consumer electronics leaders such as Zenith and Matsushita (Panasonic) -- and tomorrow's "smart" TVs.

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National Instruments is a leading supplier of computer-based instrumentation hardware and software products for engineers and scientists. National Instruments has created flexible application software and modular, multifunction hardware that combines with industry-standard personal computers and workstations to create user-defined "virtual instruments." With virtual instrumentation, users lower costs while improving time to market and the quality of their own products.

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P&E developed and marketed the first general purpose EPROM programmer. It was based on the Z80 microprocessor and provided the ability to reconfigure pinouts. The second product developed by P&E was an S100 bus-based ROM emulator. This product pushed forward the capability to rapidly develop microcomputer based systems. P&E also developed the concept of an in-circuit simulator. This device combines the big features of a simulator with the added advantage of real IO. This concept was used in Motorola's very successful promotion for the 68HC05K1 part called the KICS05.

Page Technology Marketing, Inc. develops software libraries that focus on imaging-oriented technologies which may used in printing, document imaging, archiving, viewing or faxing applications. After being spun off from Atech Software in 1993, PageTech has concentrated on developer kit products sold under the PageTech service mark. PageTech has a select staff of engineers and management with over 25 years of pioneering experience in the development of printer drivers, font technology and other imaging related technologies. The printer and font technology was originally developed by Atech Software for use in its own application software, as well as, for hundred’s of third party developers that have licensed it. PageTech’s products are continually maintained and enhanced. The most popular product for embedded systems is PageTech's FastFont Typeface Manager (FTM). It's basically a low cost, scalable font engine used for printers, mfg. proc. control monitors, medical equipment, kiosks and other embedded applications. It can also be used just to generate bitmap fonts for porting to other environments.

Phar Lap Software is a leading provider of software tools for the development of embedded and realtime systems. Phar Lap˜s TNT Embedded ToolSuite features the Realtime ETS— Kernel, a deterministic, ‘hard’ RTOS that supports multitasking, priority- and round-robin scheduling, and interthread communications. Based on a Phar Lap-defined subset of the Win32 API, the Realtime ETS Kernel is the only major RTOS that allows developers to use industry-standard tools, such as Visual C++ 5.0, to build realtime software. And now Version 9.0 of the ToolSuite supports Microsoft Developer Studio! Developers can now edit, compile, link and cross-debug their embedded applications in one single, familiar environment.

Embedded Web Technology: Another component of the ToolSuite is ETS MicroWeb Server which is based on the Realtime ETS Kernel. It includes TCP/IP support and an HTML-On-The-Fly library, which enables developers to create Embedded Web Applications, realtime embedded devices that are remotely accessible via a standard Web browser.

Pinnacle Publishing is the publisher of the award-winning Graphics Server, the industry standard graphing tool. Visit the Graphics Server home page on this site for more information. Pinnacle Publishing is a leading publisher of technical newsletters, in-depth special reports, and CD-ROMs on a variety of software products. Our information products give you time-saving tips, practical techniques, and up-to-the-minute solutions to help you get the most from your software in the least amount of time. Each of the products is highly respected for the depth, quality, and readability of its contents.

PSTI is a real-time embedded software product and services company. The product lines of PSTI are real-time executives, embedded software components, embedded software development tools, integration and training. PSTI's products are used by system integrators and product developers to support the development of real-time software that is embedded in the following types of applications: medical instrumentation, consumer products, robotics, aerospace, command and control, networking, telecommunications and process control.

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Raima Corporation, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, is a leading developer of high performance database tools for international and domestic customers. During the past ten years, more than 13,000 software companies and professional developers have chosen Raima database engines for their commercial applications and internal projects. Drawing upon extensive experience in high-performance databases, Raima offers a suite of products and services designed to provide complete flexibility and performance optimization. Raima database products are used by professional database application developers worldwide in a wide range of commercial and line-of-business database applications. Raima's new generation ANSI SQL database engine, Velocis Database Server, designed for client/server application development, is enjoying an impressive level of success worldwide. Velocis Database Server (formerly Raima Database Server) provides the next-generation level of features and technology, specifically designed for high performance and for easing the challenges of client/server database application development and deployment.

Rogue Wave Software is a leading provider of C++ and Java ^TM reusable, cross-platform software parts and tools. Our products and services are designed to reduce time to market, increase productivity, and simplify development of reusable software. Rogue Wave's software parts are used worldwide to simplify application development in distributed, heterogeneous computing environments.

RTMX provides the ideal combination of powerful tools and real-time performance. The RTMX O/S delivers absolutely the best of both. The RTMX O/S has been completely redesigned using the 4.4BSD-Lite release of Berkeley BSD, added POSIX 1003.1 functions, POSIX 1003.2 Utilities, GNU tools and many proven real-time extensions from the POSIX 1003.1b specification. A ready-to-run system at a price everyone can afford. The RTMX support for real-time fixed-priority task scheduling, shared physical memory, message exchanges, high-resolution timers, named binary semaphores and contiguous file support is complete - with no performance compromises. These powerful enhancements, with support for the proposed POSIX 1003.1b Real Time extensions bring the most powerful and standardized solution to the systems developer.

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Softel vdm is a developer and publisher of programmer productivity tools for Windows programmers, specializing in ActiveX and DLL-based custom controls and development tools for the professional Windows programmer.

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While most Fastgraph customers are game developers, it also has a fair number of customers using Fastgraph for embedded systems applications. Fastgraph is a high-performance graphics library, well-suited for writing games, educational software, and other graphics-intensive applications under DOS. Supports 31 graphics modes, from 320x200x16 through 1280x1024x16.7M. Fastgraph's SVGA kernel offers automatic, extensive chipset-specific or VESA BIOS support. Includes libraries for real mode, plus 16- and 32-bit protected mode. Fastgraph for Windows brings Fastgraph's power and ease of use to Windows graphics programming. Fast assembly language graphics functions operate on off-screen drawing surfaces instead of using slower GDI functions. Supports but does not require WinG and DirectDraw. For Windows 3.1/95/NT, includes 16- and 32-bit libraries.

Transtech Parallel Systems has been at the forefront of multi-processing systems since 1986. Today Transtech products are used by industrial, scientific, research and military customers to solve their high performance signal processing problems. Over 45% of Transtech Parallel Systems staff work in research and product development. An R&D budget of 23% of sales and heavy investment in the latest design tools ensures that Transtech Parallel Systems maintain their position as the leading vendor of embedded parallel processing systems.

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In the past twenty-two years the quality of US Software's products, engineering assistance, and superior customer service has enabled U S Software to meet the needs of the rapidly changing embedded market with consistently and rigorously tested products. All products meet the highest quality control standards.

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VenturCom is the leading provider of tools and extensions to rapidly develop and deploy dedicated applications on Windows NT and Windows CE. VenturCom's Component Integrator is a GUI-based tool to integrate, configure, and build deployable Windows NT-based target systems. This easy-to-use tool dramatically reduces the engineering time required to combine commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom software components with a dedicated Windows NT operating system. Component Integrator includes VenturCom's Embedded Component Kit (ECK) 1.1, a suite of specialized Windows NT drivers and components essential for using Windows NT in deeply embedded and real-time systems. This kit includes Small Footprint NT, Null-Display and Null-Input Support (Lights-out Operation), Flash Support, No Paging, Soft Real-time Extension (RTX 3.1), and extensions for ROM boot.

VisiCom has extensive expertise with real-time operating system kernels, communication protocols, and distributed and secure operating system technologies. Available real-time products include device drivers for fiber optics, storage technologies, and single-board computer support. VisiCom is also a licensed value- added reseller (VAR) and third party software applications developer for real-time network operating systems and single-board computers.

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Wideband's staff can assist customers at all stages of development in a variety of application areas. They not only supply software development and integration, but extensive systems engineering services. They help customers with architecture of systems, hardware or component selection, as well as software implementation and testing.

WCSC is the developer of the most versatile serial communication libraries, DLLs, TSRs, and tools for MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Tools support XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM file transfers, High level modem functions, data scanning functions, and much more. The API is identical between MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. WCSC provide very cost effective serial communication multiport cards(RS232/RS422) as well.

Wind River Systems is the leading provider of integrated software development tools and real-time operating systems for embedded applications.

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