About us

Altium's TASKING products are the choice for embedded software development across industry-standard computer platforms. Our embedded development environment, C compiler, assembler, debugger and RTOS offerings, coupled with our global support and services, are the most comprehensive available. Worldwide, more embedded software applications have been developed using TASKING tools than any other company.

What we offer to embedded design:
  • Development tools for DSPs and 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit processors, microcontrollers and softcores
  • Integration with RTOS and TCP/IP solutions
  • Debugger technology that supports any RTOS technology via open interface and multi-core systems
  • Support for, and adherence to, industry trends like MISRA C, Eclipse and ORTI
  • Active compiler and debugger R&D with DSP specialization
  • Extensively tested against authoritative validation suites, such as Perennial and Plum Hall
  • Intensive co-operation with third-party tool manufacturers to ensure tooling inter-operability
  • Embedded applications services group with expertise in common protocols, TCP/IP, Java and RTOSs
  • Installed base of many of the world's leading automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, datacom and telecom customers
What do TASKING products include?
  • Cross-Compilers
    Converts application code written in a high level language such as C or C++ into machine language
  • Debuggers
    Allows the software developer to 'step through the code' instruction-by-instruction to check logic and syntax
  • Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
    Graphical User Interface (GUI) from which the compiler, debugger and other programming tools are launched and managed
  • Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
    Sits between the application and the hardware to provide real-time management of tasks including memory management and scheduling

About TASKING

TASKING development tools are used by carmakers and the world's largest automotive tier-1 suppliers to program microcontroller based powertrain, body control and safety related applications around the globe. More than ten thousand users rely on the TASKING compilers and debuggers to create richer next-generation applications while achieving optimum reliability, security, and performance. Infineon has chosen the TASKING TriCore compiler to achieve an industry's number one score on the AUTOMARK benchmark from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) suite.

Other brands that relate to TASKING are Boston Systems Office Inc. (BSO), BSO/TASKING and Intermetrics Microsystems Software Inc. (IMSI).

About Altium Limited

Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) is the industry's leading developer of electronic product development solutions dedicated to unifying the different design disciplines involved in electronics product development. Altium products ensure all electronic engineers, designers, developers, and their organizations, take maximum advantage of emerging design technologies to bring smarter products to market faster and easier. Founded in 1985, Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets.

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