MetaWare Announces Embedded PowerPC Toolsets
MetaWare Inc. has announced a series of four High C/C++ cross-platform toolsets for IBM's Series 400 family of PowerPC Embedded controllers. Each of the four toolsets includes a 32-bit compiler, linker, and assembler with eight levels of optimization. The toolsets are priced at $2,495 for Intel-based hosts, and $4,995 for IBM RS/6000, Sun, and HP-PA based hosts.The High C/C++ Cross Toolset provides host support for the following platforms targeted to the PowerPC embedded controllers: DOS and extended DOS on Intel X86 and Pentium, AIX 3.2 on RS/6000, SunOS 4.1 or Solaris on SPARCstation or equivalent, and HP-UX on HP-PA.
The compiler is a C++ compiler rather than a C++ to C translator. MetaWare provides an "incremental strengths" feature with their compiler that permits migration from C to C++ in stages.
The EA High C/C++ Toolset for Embedded PowerPC includes the following: big- and little-endian addressing, eight levels of global optimization, optional ANSI-standard conformance, extensive and scalable error/warning messages, a wide variety of compiler features through toggles and pragmas, floating-point code generation, C and C++ support, lint-like checking, source annotated assembly listings, inline functions across compilation units, no restriction on complexity of inlined functions, four user-selectable levels of warning messages, and support for ELF and DWARF.
For more information contact MetaWare Inc., 2161 Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95060-5706, +1-408-429-6382; FAX: +1-408-429-9273; Internet: techsales@metaware.com.
Cygnus Ships GUI for GNU Debugger
Cygnus Support has announced its graphical user interface for the GNU debugger, GDB. The addition of this feature to the Cygnus Developer's Kit (CDK) provides a common, graphical interface for debugging, and offers consistent functionality with the 65+ host/target platforms supported by Cygnus. Cygnus Support's GUI for GDB is hosted on UNIX platforms under the X-Window System in native and cross-platform configurations. GUI GDB is also available in cross-platform configurations running NT. A Microsoft Windows version should also be available.GUI GDB provides a dynamic multi-window environment with interleaved source/assembly views and dynamic highlighting of changing values (registers, expressions, etc.). A command window provides the standard command-line interface for familiarity and compatibility. Online help and keyboard shortcuts are provided. Source code is included with the GUI GDB.
GUI GDB is now shipping and available only from Cygnus Support. GUI GDB is incorporated as a standard feature, available to all Cygnus CDK customers at no extra charge. For more information contact Cygnus Support, 1937 Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043, +1-415-903-1400; FAX: +1-415-903-0122.
SCO Announces Visual Tcl
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. has announced the SCO Visual Tcl technology, a core systems management and development language, which will be featured in the next release of the SCO Open Server Operating System, code named Everest. SCO Visual Tcl is a scripting language and development technology for building OSF Motif GUI and character-based system management tools, as well as a rapid prototyping environment for designing graphical interfaces. SCO Visual Tcl will be available at no charge for users of SCO Open Server and other major UNIX platforms.SCO Visual Tcl provides a client-server architecture, which separates the application from the display engine, making it possible to support simultaneous development for both the X/Motif and standard character environments from a single source-code tree. Visual Tcl technology is the principle development tool used to build SCO's new graphical systems management environment. Users can extend Visual Tcl, which is based on the public domain language Tcl, via a C-language interface or an integrated reuse library. SCO Visual Tcl supports development for the Windows environment when used in conjunction with the IXI Wintif library. SCO has plans to incorporate native Windows display engine support in the near future as part of its Windows Friendly strategy.
Under the banner of IXI Visual Tcl, Visual Tcl will be made available on UNIX platforms, including Sun Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and DEC OSF/1. For more information contact The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., 400 Encinal St., P.O. Box 1900, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-1900, +1-408-425-7222; FAX: +1-408-425-3544.
UniPress Announces GEORGE and Upgrades Source Code Manager
UniPress Software, Inc., in conjunction with K2 Software Developments Limited, has announced GEORGE, an automatic documentation tool for software developed in C and C++. GEORGE provides automatic creation of internals documentation from users' source code into FrameMaker, Interleaf, and other common desktop publishing formats. Documents created by GEORGE are automatically hypertext integrated, allowing direct online access to documentation and source code with fast navigation across the code base. Automatic indexing of the code ensures accurate listings of the documentation, online or printed, via a mix of textual or graphical representations. GEORGE's automatic output can be supplemented by user text, graphic, and table information. In addition, GEORGE merges prior user additions into new documents, automatically reporting differences or problems to the user.UniPress also announced v4.0 of Source Code Manager (SCM). Version 4.0 provides "sandboxing" (support for shared sources) and support for multi-site development. SCM pricing begins at $795 for a single user, with multi-user and site-based pricing available.
GEORGE is available through UniPress in the United States, Canada, and Mexico on Sun computers running SunOS and Solaris, and HP 9000 700/800 workstations, and will be available for PC and other platforms later this year. GEORGE is priced at $5,000 for a single UNIX workstation. For more information contact UniPress Software, Inc., 2025 Lincoln Highway, Edison, NJ 08817, +1-908-287-2100; FAX: +1-908-287-4929; E-mail: info@unipress.com; WWW: http://www.unipress.com.
Microtec Announces C++ Support for Toolkit
Microtec Research, Inc. has announced advanced C++ support for its 680x0 software development toolkit. The toolkit consists of the XRAY Debugger, a C++ compiler, an assembler, a new optimizing linker, and the XRAY MasterWorks productivity tools. Microtec's C++ technology now includes linker optimizations and C++ language features such as templates and exception handling, which make it conform to the Annotated Reference Manual (ARM) standards. The linker optimizations reduce final absolute object file size by eliminating duplicate copies of functions and data. The new Microtec compiler directly compiles C++ into object code, providing faster compilation. Microtec's compiler has also been designed to provide a more space-efficient layout for internal C++ data structures. Microtec's XRAY debugger has been enhanced to support debugging C++ applications using templates and exception handling.Microtec announced plans for a SunSPARC version for 680x0 development to be available beginning in April, 1995, with versions for PCs and HP 9000/700 to follow. Prices start at $4,250. For more information contact Microtec Research, Inc., 2350 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054, 800-950-5554 or +1-408-980-1300; FAX: +1-408-982-8266.
Scientific Endeavors Announces GraphiC
Scientific Endeavors Corporation has announced GraphiC, a high-resolution graphing package. GraphiC is a platform-independent C library, which provides over 240 functions for scientific graphing programs. GraphiC also includes dozens of example programs that can be used as templates when writing programs.GraphiC provides vector graphics with linear and logarithmic X-Y plots, 3-D surfaces, polar, pie, bar, and Smith charts. 3-D surfaces are shaded to allow color changes at contours of constant height or in colored ribbons along grid lines. GraphiC includes nine different curve types with varied curve thickness and sixteen different curve markers.
GraphiC is available on platforms including OS/2, DOS, Windows, and Windows NT. The DOS version retails for $465, while all other platforms are priced at $495. Review copies and free demonstration disks are available. For more information contact Scientific Endeavors Corporation, 508 N. Kentucky St., Kingston, TN 37763, 800-998-1571 or +1-615-376-4146; FAX: +1-615-376-1571.
BullsEye Upgrades C-Cover
BullsEye Software has announced C-Cover v3.0, a branch coverage analyzer for C and C++. C-Cover can improve testing productivity by identifying untested control structures, functions, C++ classes, source files, and sub-systems. A new feature allows forcing execution flow through specified branches, simplifying the testing of error-handling code. C-Cover can analyze multi-threaded code, dynamic link libraries, device drivers, and system-level code. C-Cover is designed to analyze very large projects and includes support for sorting, filtering, and summarizing large amounts of coverage data. Under Windows NT, C-Cover uses the Win32 API to provide additional features. C++ is fully supported, including inline functions, templates, and exception handling. Runtime source and utility programs are included.C-Cover is available for Windows, Windows NT, DOS, UNIX, and OS/2. For more information contact BullsEye Software, 800-278-4268; FAX: +1-206-524-3575; E-mail: info@bullseye.com.
XVT Software Introduces XVT Graphical Extensions
XVT Software Inc. has announced XVT Graphical Extensions, a toolset for both business and scientific graphics. XVT Graphical Extensions evolved from a scientific plotting package, which supports true 2-D and 3-D world coordinate systems. 3-D images may be rotated for viewing from any direction. An intermediate-level Viewport API provides a set of geometry management functions for graphic drawing.Bar charts and pie charts may be produced in 3-D using the world coordinate system, which enables easy rotation. Tic mark positions and labels, data legend positions, and the sizing and labelling of titles and axes are all flexible, providing the user with control over the visual display of data. Graphical Extensions supports line plots, area plots, impulse plots, scatter plots with error bars, and carpet plots with hidden line removal. Linear, logarithmic, and semi-log scales may be used on any axis. Real-time data updates are supported and hot spots may be defined for user interaction. Fonts, colors, and pen brush styles are customizable.
XVT Graphical Extensions is available for both XVT Development Solution for C and XVT Development Solution for C++. XVT Graphical Extensions is priced at $895 for personal computers (Windows PC, Macintosh, SCO UNIX) and at $1,600 for workstations. For more information contact XVT Software Inc., 4900 Pearl East Circle, Boulder, CO 80301, +1-303-443-4223; FAX: +1-303-443-0969.
American Cybernetics Releases Multi-Edit for Windows
American Cybernetics, Inc. has released Multi-Edit for Windows, a programmer's text editor, which allows complete customization and integration, turning Multi-Edit into a personalized IDE. Integration into an existing environment is made possible through DDE and DLL support. Multi-Edit provides the option of linking in a compiler's (or any other) help files for context/language sensitive help.Multi-Edit provides a macro language with structures, arrays, DLL import, and a C-like syntax. A full DLL API is provided, allowing extensions to be written in any language that can produce DLLs. Multi-Edit provides interfaces to version control systems including PVCS, TLIB, SourceSafe, and MKS-RCS, with support for check-in/check-out, histories, differencing, and project/archive maintenance. One Multi-Edit design goal was minimal memory and disk space requirements. Multi-Edit can run in as little as 500-600Kb of Windows memory.
Multi-Edit for Windows is priced at $199. Discounts are available for existing Multi-Edit customers and for multiple-users. For more information contact American Cybernetics, Inc., 1830 W. University Dr., Suite 112, Tempe, AZ 85281, +1-602-968-1945; FAX: +1-602-966-1654; CompuServe: GO CYBERNET; Internet: tech@amcyber. com.
NIS Ships ACCENT GraphicVUE
National Information Systems, Inc. has announced v1.60 of the ACCENT GraphicVUE Project Management System. Version 1.60 adds support for SunSoft's Solaris x86 operating system, importing of projects from Microsoft Project, WYSI-WYG printing, enhanced resource leveling and calendaring, and an alternative ASCII user interface.ACCENT GraphicVUE provides viewing and editing in both Gantt chart and project network display mode. Data can be entered using a spreadsheet format or through a data entry window. Multiple resource histograms can be viewed in parallel with the Gantt chart in the same window.
ACCENT GraphicVUE is available on Sun workstations with SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.3 or greater (SPARC and x86), HP 9000/700 workstations running HP-UX 9.0 or greater, and SGI workstations running IRIX 4.0.1 or greater. ACCENT GraphicVUE is priced starting at $995 for a floating license. For more information contact National Information Systems, Inc., 4040 Moorpark Ave., Suite 200, San Jose, CA 95117-1852, 800-441-5758; +1-408-985-7100; FAX: +1-408-246-3127; E-mail:info@nis.com.
Globetrotter Announces FLEXadmin
Globetrotter Software, Inc., has announced FLEXadmin, a GUI-based license administration tool for products using FLEXlm. FLEXadmin is a graphical utility that controls, monitors, and reports on software licenses and license servers for applications running on UNIX, Windows, and Windows NT. FLEXadmin and FLEXlm work across heterogeneous WANs and are "Internet-ready." FLEXadmin also works with FLEXwrap, Globetrotter's software asset management tool.FLEXadmin provides the following features: administration of software licenses; GUI real-time display of license server status, licensed machines, and uses across networks; alerts for expired (or soon to expire) licenses; and provides usage reports, summary reports, and accounting and billing information for department and project accounting through FLEXadmin's Report Writer.
FLEXadmin runs on Sun, HP, and DEC Alpha workstations, with support for other platforms planned during 1995. FLEXadmin is priced at $2,000 for typical sites. For more information contact Globetrotter Software, Inc., 20300 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, (408) 255-5616; FAX: +1-408-255-6362; E-mail: info@globescom.
Open Systems Solutions Upgrades OSS
Open Systems Solutions, Inc. has announced OSS v4.0, a package of tools that support the full ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) language specified in the 1990 and 1994 ASN.1 and encoding rule standards. The OSS tools allow programmers to transfer data between various applications and platforms, independent of the operating system or programming language.ASN.1 is the international standard for describing data structures and is accepted by both ISO and ITU-T. ASN.1 can provide interoperability between diverse environments such as Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh. Application data structures written in ASN.1 can easily be ported to platforms with a C compiler. OSS provides a compiler, encoders, and decoders for ASN.1 programmers. OSS v4.0 ASN.1 Tools features the OSS ASN.1 Compiler, BER Encoder/Decoder, and PER Encoder/Decoder.
OSS ASN.1 Tools have been ported to SunOS, Solaris, DOS/Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, HP-UX, AIX, Macintosh, NeXT, Novell NetWare, VAX/VMS, Alpha/VMS, UnixWare, and SCO UNIX. For more information contact Open Systems Solutions Inc., 301 N. Harrison St., Suite 265, Princeton, NJ 08540, +1-913-451-2990.
AccuSoft Announces Toolkit and OEM Image Viewers
AccuSoft Corporation has announced an imaging toolkit for redlining and annotation. The toolkit will work with Windows application development environments, including C, C++, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and more. The AccuSoft Redlining Toolkit (ART) is available as a DLL, a Visual Basic Custom Control (VBX), or as an OLE Control (OCX) for Windows, Windows NT, and Windows 95. The product provides an API for adding redlining and annotation capabilities to any application. Features include: lines, arrows, sticky notes, text, highlighter, hot spots, rectangles, redacting, object linking, zooming, file I/O, attribute control, and rotation.AccuSoft Corporation has also announced a product line of custom-built OEM image viewers and front-ends for Windows.
The toolkit is priced starting at $995. For more information contact AccuSoft Corporation, 2 Westborough Business Park, Westborough, MA 01581, +1-508-898-2770; FAX: +1-508-898-9662.
Microtec Announces VRTXx86/rm Kit and i960 JX XRAY Debugger
Microtec Research, Inc., has announced the VRTX x86/rm Application Development Kit for real-mode 80x86 applications. The VRTX x86/rm Kit provides development support for any 80x86 compatible processor from 80186 to Pentium. This includes support for AMD's new AM186EM, as well as the tools to build real-mode applications for the new AM386EM, Intel's 386EX, and other 80386, 80486, and Pentium compatible processors. The VRTX x86/rm Kit includes the VRTX x86/rm real-time operating system and software tools including Microtec's ANSI C compiler, a macro assembler, linker/locator, object module librarian, and Microtec's XRAY x86/rm source-level, target-linked debugger. Optional modules provide additional capabilities.Microtec also announced a version of its XRAY Debugger for the i960 Jx processor. According to Microtec, the new XRAY debugger is the first to support the Windows GUI for the i960 Jx and it satisfies Microsoft's published guidelines assuring a familiar graphical look and feel. A Simulator version of XRAY Debugger is available for early prototyping and a Monitor version is available for cross-development.
The VRTX x86/rm Application Development Kit is priced at $2,500. XRAY Debugger for the i960 pricing starts at $2,200. For more information contact Microtec Research, Inc., 2350 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054, 800-950-5554 or +1-408-980-1300; FAX: +1-408-982-8266.
National Instruments Introduces Toolkit for LabWindows/CVI
National Instruments has announced an add-on toolkit that connects Windows PCs running LabWindows/CVI software to more than 20 local or remote databases. The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit acts as a direct communications link to databases, allowing users to store or fetch data, or perform SQL operations. The Toolkit provides access to databases including ORACLE, Sybase, INFORMIX, INGRES, Paradox, Microsoft Access, and others.LabWindows/CVI has a number of visual development tools that assist users in creating test programs using the standard ANSI C programming language. LabWindows/CVI includes an integrated ANSI C compiler, linker, editor, and debugger, as well as interactive user-interface editor within an environment created specifically for building test programs.
The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit is priced at $695. For more information contact National Instruments, 6504 Bridge Point Pkwy., Austin, TX 78730-5039, 800-433-3488 or +1-512-794-0100; FAX: +1-512-794-8411; E-mail: info@natinst.com.
OTG Releases ObjectUtilities for Windows
Optical Technology Group, Inc., has announced the release of ObjectUtilities for Windows, a fully programmable image-processing system for Windows applications. Bi-tonal, color, and greyscale images can be scanned, viewed, marked-up, faxed/printed/e-mailed, enhanced, formatted (TIFF, PICT, etc.), annotated, redacted, noted, and more. ObjectUtilities provides full OLE 2 support through a Standard C API.ObjectUtilities is priced at $199 per desktop and offers OLE 2 interfaces and C API library options for developers. For more information contact Optical Technology Group, Inc., 1 Democracy Plaza, Suite 805, 6701 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20817, +1-301-897-1400; FAX: +1-301-897-1415.
Spalding Introduces DataExport Engine
Spalding Software, Inc. has announced the DataExport Engine for Windows developers. The DataExport Engine allows developers to export data from a Windows application to 37 spreadsheet and database formats, including Excel, Access, Lotus 123, Paradox, and dBase compatible formats. The DataExport Engine uses an ASCII source file and an Export Definition File (EDF) for conversion of data. The DataExport Engine is based on technology developed for Spalding's text conversion utility, DataImport.Spalding scheduled release of the translation engine for July 1, 1995. Initial pricing for the DataExport Engine has been set at $795. This purchase price allows developers to use and ship the engine with their product royalty-free. For more information contact Spalding Software, Inc., Technology Park/Atlanta, 154 Technology Pkwy., Suite 250, Norcross, GA 30092-2911, +1-404-449-1634; FAX: +1-404-449-0052; CompuServe: 74431,240; Internet: DE-info @spaldingsoft.com.
Tartan Announces VecTar and SigTar DSP Math Libraries
Tartan, Inc. has announced availability of its VectTar and SigTar DSP math libraries for the Texas Instruments TMS320C3x family of processors, as well as their previous target, the TMS320C4x. Tartan's FasTar and FloTar libraries are also available for both TI Floating-point DSP families. The libraries are written in hand-coded assembly language, and provide performance, small executable code, and high numerical precision. Tartan also announce FasTar v2, its library of single-precision math and trigonometric functions, which was previously only available with Tartan's C/C++ compilers.FasTar is priced at $495 for PCs (DOS or OS/2) $695 for Sun SPARC systems. VecTar and SigTar are priced at $695 for DOS or Windows, and $895 for Sun SPARC. For more information contact Tartan, Inc., 300 Oxford Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146, +1-412-856-3600; FAX: +1-412-856-3636.
Isis Ships Isis Reliable SDK for Windows
Isis Distributed Systems, Inc. has announced commercial shipments of its Isis Reliable Software Development Kit 3.2 for Windows and Windows NT. The suite of distributed systems development tools allows developers to build reliability and fault tolerance into Windows applications. UNIX specific versions of the ISIS Reliable SDK were released as well. The SDK is a messaging/middleware application programming interface that is layered on top of standard operating system and communications protocol stacks. The SDK is platform independent and supports standards such as TCP/IP, NFS, and CORBA. Applications that are built to conform to the Isis API are fault-tolerant through Active Replication of processes and data. To achieve fault tolerance, Isis-enabled applications are constructed from groups of replicated processes in multiple physical locations across the distributed system.Development seat licenses for the Isis Reliable SDK v3.2 are priced at $3,000 for Windows and $4,000 for Windows NT. Runtime licenses are priced at $400 and $800 respectively. For more information contact Isis Distributed Systems Incorporated, 55 Fairbanks Blvd., Marlboro, MA 01752, 800-258-0990; FAX: +1-508-481-9274.
SDS Introduces SingleStep and SingleStep for ColdFire
Software Development Systems has announced SingleStep, a debugging environment for UNIX that can be used for the development and debugging of embedded PowerPC, Motorola ColdFire, 68000 applications on Sun SPARCstations, and HP 9000 series 800 workstations.The ColdFire version works for the Motorola MCF5102 microprocessor. ColdFire is Motorola's new variable-length RISC technology. SingleStep provides source-level debugging for C and C++ code on embedded projects. SingleStep provides a graphical interface, with access to symbolic information, and intuitive debugging operations. SingleStep comes in two versions, an instruction set simulator and a target monitor debugger.
SingleStep (the simulator version) is available for Sun and HP workstations with prices starting at $2,000 (or $1,500 for Windows or Windows NT). For more information contact Software Development Systems, 815 Commerce Dr., Suite 250, Oak Brook, IL 60521, +1-708-368-0400; FAX: + 1-708-990-4641; E-mail: sales@sdsi.com.
Artic Releases The Kalendar
Artic Software has announced The Kalendar, a calendar custom control. The Kalendar provides 20 events that allow you to customize the day boxes, draw your own day boxes, or draw directly on the day boxes. Users can draw text, bitmaps, or other information. The Kalendar provides over 100 properties and supports multiple views, international formats, 12 built-in languages, data awareness, 3-D graphic wallpaper, and full printing support.The Kalendar VBX can be used with Visual Basic, VC++, Borland C++, or Delphi. For more information contact Artic Software, P.O. Box 28, Waterford, WI 53185-0028; +1-414-534-4309; FAX: +1-414-534-7809.