TASKING C166 Tool Suite Improves Performance and Shortens Development Time

Tool Suite Now Supports More Derivatives and Linux

Dedham, Mass. — January 25, 2000 — TASKING today announced the release of the C166 Tool Suite, v.6.0r6, for embedded software development. With improvements in compiler optimization and debugging, the new tool suite is proven to reduce code size by 7%, giving developers the ability to debug programs quickly and more easily. The new tool suite consists of TASKING's Embedded Development Environment, optimized C as well as C++/EC++ compilers and CrossView Pro debugger. Designed for Infineon Technologies' C166 Family and STMicroelectronics' ST10 Family, the tool suite ensures support for the latest available derivatives as well as the PC/Linux platform, ensuring greater ease and efficiency in generating and debugging embedded applications.

Recognizing the developers' need to achieve critical time to market deadlines, TASKING created the C166 tool suite with improved design efficiency. User definable intrinsic functions offer low-level CPU-related functions to be accessed at the C level, reducing the need to use in-line assembly or the assembler. Six memory models, structured to satisfy any size of data requirement, enable developers to scale the program to the application. Ultra-efficient pointer arithmetic and fast parameter passing improve code speed and efficiency, while a powerful assembler, linker and locator offer the option of generating ROMable code.

"This release of the C166 tool suite provides our customers with significant added value and confirms TASKING's commitment to providing the de facto standard toolset for the C166/ST10 families," says Stephan Paternotte, TASKING Product Marketing Manager.

Featuring enhanced register windows and a more intuitive user interface, the CrossView Pro C166 debugger quickly identifies errors, enabling developers to achieve development production goals. With this release, developers can group registers into register sets, display only critical registers and quickly and easily inspect variable contents using BubbleSpy technology. Programmable data analysis windows allow graphical presentation of data objects, thus enabling easy identification of failing signal processing.

Availability
The C166 Tool Suite, v.6.0r6, is available now for Windows 95/98/NT, Sun Solaris, HP/UX and PC/Linux. C166 customers with a maintenance contract may upgrade to this release free of charge. A demo version of the tool suite is available from www.tasking.com/products/C166-ST10 or on CD-ROM from any of the TASKING offices or distributors. Release notes and readme files can be downloaded from the technical support area www.tasking.com/support/C166-ST10.

About TASKING
TASKING manufactures and markets integrated software development tools for the embedded systems industry, supporting a wide range of 8-, 16-, 32-bit and DSP devices. The company's integrated development environment, compiler, debugger, embedded Internet and RTOS offerings, coupled with their global support and services, are the most comprehensive available. TASKING's knowledge of embedded systems results from the merger of three companies (BSO, Intermetrics Microsystems and TASKING), each with over 20 years of experience. BSO began the company's long history of innovation, pioneering the concept of cross development in 1974. Headquartered in Dedham, MA, TASKING has offices worldwide, located in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK. For more information about TASKING, visit their web site at www.tasking.com.

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