Ashling announces debug support for the eCos Real Time Kernel

ASHLING PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

Limerick, Ireland, June 2004: Ashling RTOS debug support is available now for the Open Source eCos Real Time Kernel. PathFinder, Ashling’s source debugger, provides a display of eCos special functions and threads. PathFinder is the User Interface for all Ashling Emulator and Simulator products, including the Ashling Vitra, Genia and Opella Emulators. PathFinder supports a wide range of 32-bit processor architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and TriCore.

Commenting on the product release, John Murphy, Managing Director of Ashling Microsystems, Ltd. said "We are pleased to add eCos Kernel awareness to the feature set of our tools for 32-bit cores, hardware and software developers and system-integration engineers will use this scalable, high-performance environment to debug and validate their source code, real-time kernel and coprocessors."

About Ashling Microsystems
Ashling Microsystems (founded in 1982) is a privately held international Embedded Software Development Tools company. Ashling designs and manufactures In-Circuit Emulators, JTAG/BDM Emulators, Smart Card development tools, Source Debuggers, Integrated Development Environments, Development Boards and Software Quality Assurance tools. Through its close cooperation with leading semiconductor vendors Ashling is now a world leader in the Embedded Software development tools market. Ashling's semiconductor partners include Philips Semiconductors, ARC International, MIPS Technologies, Freescale (Motorola) Semiconductors, NEC, Oki, ARM Ltd. and Infineon Technologies. Ashling’s R&D Centre is in Limerick, Ireland. The company’s North America Sales and Support Center is in Sunnyvale, California, with sales subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and France and distributors throughout the world. Full details of Ashling’s locations and other information are on the company’s web site at www.ashling.com.

For more information from Ashling Microsystems, contact:
John Murphy
Managing Director
Ashling Microsystems Limited
National Technology Park
Limerick
Ireland
Tel. +353 61 334631
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