TASKING Enhances Its Tool Suites to Meet the Needs of the
Embedded Communications MarketNew Releases Available for 8051, XA, PowerPC, DSP56xxx and
CARMEL
Dedham, Mass. - May 16, 2000 — TASKING, The
Embedded Communications Company, announced new releases
of its tool suites for the 8051, XA, PowerPC, DSP56xxx and CARMEL
platforms. The enhancements bring new performance analysis
capabilities, increased code efficiency, more granular debugging
capabilities and improved programming flexibility, addressing the
ever-demanding needs of customers to maximize developer productivity
and fine tune application performance. The tool suites, which all
include TASKING's Embedded Development Environment (EDE), C compiler
and CrossView Pro debugger, now feature superior memory bank
management, startup code options, and numerous compiler and
assembler enhancements. Developers also enjoy new flexibility,
thanks to TASKING's focus on additional processor derivatives and an
improved windowing graphical user interface. These enhancements
boost code performance, while providing the increased functionality
needed by customers to reduce time to market in the embedded
communications market. "Our tool suites meet the needs of
customers creating embedded communications applications,"
said Brian Mulcahey, TASKING's VP of Worldwide Corporate Marketing. "More
and more companies want to harness the power of the embedded
processor to distinguish their products in the market. Right now,
that edge is gained through embedding communications that tell you
your vending machine is out of stock, your remote pumping station is
about to fail, or your customer's control system needs servicing.
Embedded communications can even let you debug and conduct
performance analysis remotely." To address the requirements of customers needing
to reduce the ever-critical time to market, TASKING delivered
high-performance features on the following platforms:
8051 Tool Suite, V5.0, continues to
support more 8051 variants than any other toolset, adding
multiple data-pointer variants and recently announced
derivatives from Philips, Infineon and Dallas Semiconductor.
Working hand-in-hand with emWare's Embedded Micro
Internetworking Technology (EMIT), the TASKING tool
suite offers a tightly integrated communications solution that
connects 8051-based products to any network using any interface.
In addition, this release offers new compiler and assembler
controls, flexible handling of startup code and memory bank
features suited for larger, more complex applications. With a
smooth user interface and extensive mouse-click response, the
8051's CrossView Pro debugger offers the style and usability of
the latest Windows standards. The ROM monitor debugger is also
plug-and-play ready for any off-the-shelf evaluation boards. The
8051 tool suite is available now on PC/Linux, Windows, Sun and
HP development environments.
XA Tool Suite, V3.0, gives developers
many features that improve development efficiency-an enhanced
compact memory model, a superior C library with better file I/O
support, new intrinsic functions to optimize code, user and
system CPU modes for optimal code generation, and an 8051 to XA
code converter. With support for new XA variants for I2C,
telecom, flash, CAN, smart cards, and EMIT, this release targets
users in embedded communications. The CrossView debugger offers
two execution environments, an improved user interface,
simulator-time support, as well as BubbleSpy technology to
quickly and easily inspect variable contents. The package is
available now.
PowerPC Tool Suite, V2.1,
significantly increases developer efficiency through graphical
data analysis that identifies problems faster and an enhanced
register GUI. Developers gain additional capabilities with
compiler optimizations such as decrement and branch loop
rewriting, inline struct assignments, endian byte order and many
more. The CrossView Pro debugger includes BubbleSpy technology,
predefined and user programmable graphical data analysis,
symbolic register editing, integrated flash programming
capabilities, as well as RTOS-aware debugging. This release with
all its enhancements comes at a 30% lower price.
DSP56xxx Tool Suite, V2.3, is still
the only alternative to Motorola's free GNU tools, which are
becoming more challenged as companies move into complex embedded
communications tasks. With this release, the DSP56xxx compiler
optimizations achieve up to a 20% improvement in floating-point
performance, while debugging capabilities pinpoint performance
issues, speeding resolution of problems. For developers
resolving connectivity issues, TASKING offers a variety of
embedded networking solutions. The CrossView Pro debugger offers
a graphical signal data analysis with five types of analyses:
x-t plotting, x-y plotting, FFT power spectrum, FFT waterfall
and Eye diagram. Key debugger enhancements include the ability
to use one of the timers to count instructions/cycles, and the
capacity to single step without stopping if an interrupt occurs.
The DSP56xxx tool suite is available now.
CARMEL Tool Suite, V2.0, strengthens
TASKING's commitment to both the DSP and embedded communications
markets with CARMEL's strengths in third-generation wireless and
broadband connectivity applications. The tool suite supports
compiler optimizations, language extensions for DSP
applications, and the configurable long instruction word
technology of the Infineon CARMEL DSP Core. A C-like assembler
offers low-level control, while increasing efficiency since
developers gain the performance of assembly language with the
ease of a C compiler. In addition to new graphical signal data
analysis capabilities, CARMEL's CrossView Pro debugger now lets
developers examine pipeline stages, complex breakpoints and
register groupings through both the cycle-accurate simulator and
on-chip-debugging-support. The CARMEL Tool Suite is available
now.
With these enhancements in hand, developers are
assured a reduced learning curve, greater productivity and decreased
time to market. Demo versions of each tool suite are available from
the products area of TASKING's web site www.tasking.com/products,
while the release notes and readme files can be downloaded from the
technical support area www.tasking.com/support.
About TASKING
TASKING, the Embedded Communications Company, brings together the
software technology needed to compete in the embedded communications
era. TASKING's award-winning integrated development environment,
compiler, debugger, embedded Internet and RTOS offerings support a
wide range of DSPs and 8-, 16- and 32-bit microprocessors and
microcontrollers for all areas of embedded communications. TASKING,
founded in 1974, is a privately held company with headquarters in
Dedham, Massachusetts, and engineering, sales and support offices in
San Jose, California, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Japan and the
UK. TASKING's 100,000 licensed users include the world's leading
telecom, datacom, wireless and peripheral manufacturers. More
information about TASKING can be found at http://www.tasking.com and
http://www.embeddedcommunications.com. TASKING, the TASKING logo, The
Embedded Communications Company and BubbleSpy are trademarks of
TASKING. All other trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
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