C/C++ Users Journal January, 2005
IDELIX Software has released new versions of its Pliable Display Technology (PDT) SDK. PDT is a virtual lens technology for visualizing and interacting with digital data. PDT-based functionality, such as detail-in-context data interaction, lens-assisted operations, bandwidth management, and multilayer viewing are designed for applications such as geospatial intelligence, defense, GIS, medical imaging, gaming, and CAD. Version 3.1 of the PDT SDK is written in C++ and features new COM and .NET wrappers. Contact +1-604-656-6300 or http://www.idelix.com/.
Toolsfactory has updated its documentation system, Doc-O-Matic, to Version 4. Doc-O-Matic uses information about source-code symbols (namespaces, packages, classes, members structs, records, enums, and other symbols) and existing tagged and untagged comments (XMLDoc comments, JavaDoc comments, and plaintext comments) in source-code files and external documentation files (Word Documents, HTML files, and plaintext files) to create cross-linked documentation systems, online help, and user manuals in PDF, HTML, HTML Help 1.x, Help 2.0, Windows Help, RTF, and XML. Doc-O-Matic 4 supports C/C++, IDL, C++.NET, C#, VB.NET, Delphi, JavaScript, ASP.NET, MATLAB, JSP, and Java. Contact +1-866-515-8462 or http://www.toolsfactory.com/.
Semiconductor company StarGen, specialists in serial switched interconnect solutions, has made available a StarFabric SDK. The SDK includes software libraries, fabric analysis tools, and drivers for Windows XP, Linux, and WindRiver VxWorks. It provides customization of StarFabric's nontransparent bridging and Quality of Service features, and supports event features such as link-up, link-down events. Customers can use the SDK to make peer-to-peer connections that can map multiterabytes of memory resources, and designate different classes of service to improve system performance, such as multicast and isochronous classes of service. Contact +1-508-786-9950 or http://www.stargen.com/.
X-Formation's LM-X license management software now supports C# as well as C and C++. LM-X gives you multilevel licensing options, providing out-of-the-box support for models such as hardware-locked and networked (floating) licenses. The latest release of LM-X also incorporates new security elements designed to deter piracy; features to make integration into existing code easier; and support for custom extensions. Contact +45-30228575 or http://www.x-formation.com/.
PrismTech has announced OpenFusion SCA OE, a commercial-off-the-shelf implementation of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) specification for software-defined radios. OpenFusion SCA OE features include: BAE Systems' CNIR core framework (CF); PrismTech's own OpenFusion e*ORB SDR distributed processing middleware environment; heterogeneous RTOS/hardware support; waveform developer productivity tools; POSIX-compliant operating-system support; sample waveforms; and SCA-compliant reference hardware. Contact +1-781-270-1177 or http://www.prismtech.com/.
Altova is shipping Version 2005 of its product line, covering XMLSpy 2005, MapForce 2005, StyleVision 2005, and Authentic 2005. Altova software version 2005 includes automated function building, Eclipse integration, relational database content editing, and the SchemaAgent that enables visual management of complex schemas and their components in workgroups. And because XML documents must be bound to an external software application or runtime environment, XMLSpy 2005 includes automatic code generation of Java, C++, or C# class files based on data elements defined in a schema. Contact +1-978-816-1600 or http://www.altova.com.
ObjectStore, part of Progress Software Corp., is offering ObjectStore RFID Accelerator, a real-time data management solution for RFID applications. ObjectStore RFID Accelerator features an event query language, a persistent database for EPC-related data, support for industry-standard RFID readers to collect RFID data, and open interfaces to communicate RFID events to enterprise applications. The company claims that ObjectStore RFID Accelerator can handle sustained throughput of 50,000 events a second, with subsecond processing. Contact +1-781-280-4000 or http://www.objectstore.com/.
TimeSys has developed the Eclipse 3.0-based TimeStorm Linux Development Suite (LDS) and TimeStorm Linux Verification Suite (LVS), designed to help you quickly develop embedded applications or port any Linux distribution to any target platform. TimeStorm LVS includes more than 2200 ready-to-run system tests for all Linux distributions and testware for validating applications and Linux distributions on embedded boards. Contact +1-412-232-3250 or http://www.timesys.com/.
Absoft is selling a High-Performance Computing SDK for IBM Linux on POWER clusters and servers. The basic HPC SDK comes preconfigured and includes: IBM's XL Fortran and XL C/C++ compilers, Absoft's multiplatform compatible Fortran95 compiler, Absoft's multilanguage Fx2 Debugging Solution, IBM's ESSL Mathematical and Scientific Libraries, and LAM/MPI. The HPC SDK also comes with a common installer and a common license manager available exclusively from Absoft. Contact +1-248-853-0050 or http://www.absoft.com/.