Virtual Micro Design's UMPS system provides graphical simulation of a number of different eight-bit microcontrollers and auxiliary hardware. The system includes complete assembler/disassembler and modules to simulate LCD displays, timers, and EEPROMs. You can add support for additional hardware by writing appropriate DLLs.
Virtual Micro Design, I.D.L.S
Technopole Izarbel
64210 Bidart, France
+33 0-559-438-458
http://www.sistudio.com/umps/
The Art Technology Group (ATG) announced Dynamo Application Server 3.0, a server-side Java platforms for rapid deployment of dynamic, mission-critical web applications. Dynamo 3 is scalable and provides a component framework that lets you assemble server applications from server-side JavaBeans components. Dynamo 3 features Automatic Load Distribution for allocating load; user sessions and management of user requests across several processors; Automatic Fail-over Protection for redirecting new user sessions to alternate servers in the event of server failure; the Dynamometer console for monitoring critical application statistics and track application performance at a glance. Additionally, Dynamo 3 is delivered with core services such as scheduling and event logging. Dynamo 3 runs on Solaris, Windows NT, and IRIX. Dynamo 3 costs $10,000 for one processor, $5000.00 for each additional processor.
Art Technology Group
101 Huntington Avenue, 22nd Floor
Boston, MA 02199
617-859-1212
http://www.atg.com/
Applied Microsystems' CodeTEST-ACT (CodeTEST Advanced Coverage Tools) is a suite of software test and analysis tools for embedded systems. This suite meets the testing standards for life-critical applications mandated by the FAA. CodeTEST-ACT is a live and in-circuit coverage analysis tool that can monitor as many as 32,000 C functions with the microprocessors running at full speed. CodeTEST-ACT costs $7000 for the Decision-Coverage version, and $20,000 for the Modified Condition Decision Coverage version. Applied Microsystems has also announced the CoreTAP coverage development platform which lets you simulate complex ASIC designs, including processors, peripherals, and custom components. Through simulation, you can develop and test their software before prototype silicon is available.
Applied Microsystems Corp.
5020 148th Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98073-9702
206-882-2000
http://www.amc.com/
TriTeal released WinTED 2.1, its UNIX-to-Windows interoperability software. WinTED 2.1 lets Windows 95/NT clients access, execute, and display UNIX applications. WinTED 2.1, unlike former versions, works independently of TriTeal's common enterprise desktop product TED. WinTED offers an on-demand PC X server, front panel control for deployment and administration, and drag-and-drop functionality. WinTED 2.1 costs $99.00/seat.
TriTeal Corp.
2011 Palomar Airport Road
Carlsbad, CA 92009
760-827-5000
http://www.tritreal.com/
EPC has announced Version 2 of its Fortran 90 compiler for Intel systems. Version 2 was designed to integrate with the OpenMP compliant KAP*/Pro Toolset from Kuck & Associates, enabling Fortran users to take maximum advantage of the latest Intel-based multiprocessor systems. Version 2 of EPC Fortran 90 adds most of the common language extensions found in Fortran compilers from DEC, Hewlett-Packard, Cray, and Microsoft.
Edinburgh Portable Compilers
17 Alva Street
Edinburgh EH2 4PH
Scotland
+44 131-225-6262
http://www.epc.com/
Sun Microsystems has announced Java Studio, a dynamic authoring tool with a visual environment for linking JavaBean components. Java Studio lets you test the end result of your applications while you are developing them, without having to publish or run the application or change screens. Java Studio comes with a palette of more than 50 Beans from component vendors, including KL Group, Ludens, Object Design, and Thought Inc. These Beans include support database connectivity, charting and graphing, GUI development, and multimedia components. Java Studio sells for about $79.00. Java Studio is supported on Solaris and Windows 95/NT.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
901 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
800-786-7638
http://www.sun.com/shop/
Nesbitt Software has released Kenn Nesbitt's BugCollector 1.0 for Windows 95/NT 4.0. BugCollector is a database program that tracks software bugs and feature requests. BugCollector organizes bug reports and feature requests by status, priority, and severity, and tracks multiple projects and programs. BugCollector includes comprehensive predefined reports and graphs for summarizing, and exports in standard CSV format and HTML for transferring data to other spreadsheet and database programs and the Web. Kenn Nesbitt's BugCollector sells for $99.95.
Nesbitt Software Corp.
11772 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 120
San Diego, CA 92121
619-259-4700
http://www.nesbitt.com/
SolutionsIQ's CONNX 7.0 provides unified access to a variety of databases. Normal ODBC drivers allow an application to access a database without having to know details of the particular database. CONNX allows applications to access any mixture of databases as a single, unified system. Version 7.0 provides access to a variety of VMS databases.
SolutionsIQ
1260 116th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-451-2727
http://www.solutionsiq.com/
Cloudscape's JBMS is a lightweight Java-based relational database management system designed for application deployment. You can package both the data and the logic in the database, and deploy the self-contained application over the network onto a JBMS platform. JBMS has built-in replication, and can be extended with Java class libraries. JBMS memory footprint is less than 1.5 MB, and can be compressed for transmission to 600 KB.
Cloudscape Inc.
180 Grand Avenue, Suite 300
Oakland, CA 94612
510-873-0900
http://www.cloudscape.com/
O'Reilly & Associates is shipping its Perl Resource Kit, UNIX Edition, featuring extensive Perl documentation and custom-designed Perl tools. The Perl Resource Kit-UNIX CD features a Java/Perl interface, written by Larry Wall, Perl's creator. This Java/Perl tool lets you write Java classes with Perl implementations. The CD-ROM also includes a snapshot of the freeware Perl archives on Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), an installation program, search tool, and web-aware interface. The kit's 1800 pages of documentation includes Programming With Perl Modules, Perl Module Reference, Perl Utilities Guide, and the Fall 1997 issue of The Perl Journal. The Perl Resource Kit, UNIX Edition costs $149.95.
O'Reilly & Associates
4008 Mossi Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com/
Unibrain has announced FireNet, driver software that transparently emulates Ethernet 802.3 using a IEEE-1394 (FireWire) adapter. Using FireNet, the operating system treats the 1394 adapter as an Ethernet card with FireWire speeds. FireNet also makes a native 1394 API available for applications that want to use the isochronous services to reserve bandwidth and guarantee limited data latency.
Unibrain S.A.
84 Ethnikis Antistaseos Street
15231 Athens, Greece
0030-1-6756320
http://www.unibrain.com/
SuperNova has released SuperNova/Visual Concepts, a platform- and language-independent environment for assembling and deploying component-based applications. SuperNova/Visual Concepts uses a virtual machine that it allows it to support ActiveX, OLE/COM, or CORBA/IIOP written in Visual Basic, Java, C, C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, and SuperNova/Application Developer.
SuperNova Inc.
2025 Lincoln Highway
Edison, NJ 08817
908-248-6667
http://www.supernova.com/
ICL announced DAIS 3.2, its CORBA-compliant object request broker. DAIS 3.2 adds support for Java, ActiveX, and Eiffel. The DAIS development kit is priced from $2995.00. Evaluation copies can be downloaded from http://www.daisorb.com/.
ICL Inc.
11490 Commerce Park Drive
Reston, VA 20191
703-648-3300
http://www.iclinc.com/
SCO has released the Tarantella application broker. Tarantella lets you deploy Windows, UNIX, and mainframe applications to any Java-enabled client. Tarantella uses SCO's Adaptive Internet Protocol, an efficient network protocol that boosts performance. Tarantella is available for UnixWare and Solaris, and costs $395.00 for a single-user license, $245.00/user for a 100-user license, and $200.00/user for a 500-user license.
SCO
400 Encinal Street
P.O. Box 1900
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
408-425-7222
http://www.sco.com/
Nombas has released the ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0, which lets you enhance, extend, and customize applications using the flexible, easy-to-use, JavaScript-compatible, ScriptEase scripting language. The ScriptEase:Integration SDK lets you embed a fully functional scripting language interpreter into any C/C++ application. The ScriptEase:Integration SDK supports Windows 3.1/95/ NT/PPC, Linux, UNIX, DOS, OS/2, MacOS, NetWare, and embedded systems. The ScriptEase:Integration SDK sells for $995.00.
Nombas Inc.
64 Salem Street
Medford, MA 02155
781-391-6595
http://www.nombas.com/
Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) has announced JexeWare 1.0 for Windows 95/NT, a tool which executes Java applications/applets by compiling Java bytecode to optimized native code for Windows 95/NT. JexeWare includes the JexeWare Desktop, Native Code Compiler, Applet Viewer, and Marimba Castanet Tuner. JexeWare 1.0 supports JDK 1.1. JexeWare 1.0 for Windows 95/NT priced at $49.00.
Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corp.
Kawasaki City, Japan
+81-44-246-8406
http://cmall.tisj.com/
The Motorola 68HC16Z3 16-bit microcontroller has a real-time operating system kernel (RTEK) on-chip. A minimal version of Motorola's RTEK kernel is designed to fit into the 68HC16Z3's eight KB of ROM, yet still provide 94 services to manage program tasks and resources such as the CPU, memory and time. It also enables real-time data manipulation and provides a common API for related tasks. Included with the RTEK developers kit is RTEKgen, a graphical system generation program that simplifies system configuration. In addition to eight KB of ROM, the 68HC16Z3 features a System Integration Module with 12 programmable chip select outputs and system failure protection; four KB on-chip standby RAM; queued serial peripheral interface and serial communications interface; General Purpose 16-bit Timer with nine-stage prescaler and 11 timer channels; selectable eight-bit/ten-bit, eight-channel analog-to-digital converter.
Motorola MCU Information
P.O. Box 13026
Austin, Texas 78711
512/328-2268
http://www.mcu.motsps.com/
Rational Software has launched a web-based Unified Modeling Language (UML) Resource Center at http://www.rational .com/uml. This site coincides with the Object Management Group's (OMG) announcement that it has adopted the UML as the official industry standard for software design notations. Rational's UML Resource Center provides information on the UML standard, and includes the complete searchable text of the specification, a tutorial, and UML discussion forums.
Rational Software Corp.
18880 Homestead Road
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-863-9900
http://www.rational.com/
Ironside Technologies has announced its ironX remote Java software which lets users run large commercial-class Internet and intranet Java applets on central servers while downloading a small Java client to end-user browsers. When loaded by a browser, the ironX ultra-thin client connects to the ironX server platform, which starts a target applet running on the server. When the customer-written target applet running on the server uses the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) to display Java components, the ironX server platform, transparent to the applet, transmits component instructions to the ironX client which then displays the components on the user's screen. As the user interacts with the components, events and component changes are transmitted by the ironX client back to the ironX server platform and are transparently made available to the applet.
Ironside Technologies Inc.
111 Granton Drive,Suite 220
Richmond Hill, ON
Canada L4B 1L5
905-771-8599
http://www.ironside.com/
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