Mercury extends development capabilities for RACE++ multicomputer platform

The RACEware Software Partner Program enables RACE++ application developers to easily select software tools to speed their development cycle, and it improves access to the developer market for tool suppliers that participate in the RACEware program.

Independent software vendors selected for the program offer development tools appropriate to the needs of Mercury's customer base. Member companies of the program include: ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc. - offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real-time systems. The ARTiSAN Real-Time Studio(R), a suite of development tools that incorporates Unified Modeling Language (UML) features, enables large engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them by simplifying implementation with code generation, documentation and software reuse.

Blue Horizon Development Software, Inc. - the developer of GEDAE , a software development productivity tool based on the data flow graph paradigm. Blue Horizon's mission is to make it easy for customers to develop digital signal processing applications and products. Blue Horizon is well-known for its customer support.

Honeywell - a U.S. $25-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions, including SAGE, which provides an integration framework for rapid integration, simplifying system and application development. SAGE captures the knowledge a developer would typically need, in order to integrate an application, targeting a specific platform.

Integrated Sensors, Inc. - a 15-year-old privately held company with expertise in the areas of high-performance parallel computing, sensor integration, and systems engineering. The firm's RTExpress is a software development and run-time environment that provides a parallel implementation of MATLAB code across multiple processor nodes. It is used for both embedded and non-embedded high performance parallel computers.

Management Communications and Control, Inc. - a company that has provided graphical, icon-based automated code generation tools for 15 years. MCCI sells and supports the Autocoding Toolset, software tools that generate concurrent, multi-threaded applications with embeddable external control code modules from graphical and iconic specifications.

MPI Software Technology, Inc. - a privately held provider of commercial-grade message passing "middleware" for cluster systems and embedded computers. The company offers MPI/Pro for Mercury RACE , a message passing interface that defines data transfers among multiple processors.

Objective Interface Systems, Inc. - a worldwide leader of embedded and real-time middleware solutions provides CORBA-based development tools to meet the high-performance needs for telecommunications, data communications, industrial automation, electronics, military and aerospace markets. Its premier product, ORBexpress, has been used since 1997 for the creation of reliable, complex real-time and embedded systems.

RACE++ systems are powered by PowerPC microprocessors, in configurations that scale from dozens to hundreds of processors and gigaflops. Mercury provides a wide range of software development tools and libraries including the Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL); a MULTI(R) integrated development environment (IDE) for Solaris and Windows NT development hosts; Trace Analysis Tool and Library (TATL), a multiprocessor debugging aid; and Parallel Acceleration System (PAS), an aid to parallelizing DSP multiprocessor applications. Third-party tool providers complement the Mercury tools, allowing end users to choose the tools that meet their specific needs.