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Crossware has introduced fully functional try-before-you-buy versions of its Windows 95/NT 4.0 C compilers. The 8051 C compiler includes smart pointers and cross-module type checking.
In response to customer demand, developers can now download the package of their choice from the Internet (www.crossware.com) 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. After installation, the developer reconnects to the Crossware website, where an automated system supplies a code to activate the package. Crossware is providing comprehensive support during the evaluation period. It has installed the latest web-conferencing software so that all users can ask questions, interact, and get the best from their embedded development software. Crosswise claims that with hundreds of new users simultaneously evaluating the Crossware packages, the web-conference approach is an effective support solution.
For more information contact Crossware Products, 44.(0).1223.421263; fax 44.(0).1223.421006; websales@crossware.com; www.crossware.com.
Riverace Announces ACE 4.4
Riverace Corporation has released ACE v4.4. ACE is an object-oriented, C++ class library that simplifies the development of high-performance software for the Internet and intranets. Its C++ class library and bundled network services allow development of programs that are portable across a wide variety of computer platforms.
The ACE source kit is available on Riverace's website (www.riverace.com).
For more information contact Riverace Corporation, 1.508.384.5708; fax 1.508.384.3197; info@riverace.com; www.riverace.com.
Mutek Announces BugTrapper
Mutek Solutions, Ltd. has announced BugTrapper, a product that automatically tracks running applications and identifies irreproducible bugs at remote customer sites. BugTrapper tracks irreproducible bugs in large programs, Internet applets, or time-dependent and multiprocessing applications.
BugTrapper records problematic buggy scenarios so they can be fixed. It tracks and logs everything that happens inside the program's code during the time prior to the bug's appearance, eliminating the need to reproduce the problem. This tracing information, somewhat like a "source-code movie," includes all information needed to analyze the bug. Once the execution has been recorded, analysis and debugging can be performed off-line with this recorded scenario, using standard debugging operations.
To solve a problem at a customer site, the compact BugTrapperAgent utility can be sent instead of a developer to record a problematic execution. The resulting log can be used to analyze and solve the problem.
BugTrapper costs $5,000 for the first copy, and $1,000 for each additional copy. The BugTrapperAgent costs $750, or $23,750 for a package of 25. Quantity discounts are available.
For more information contact Mutek Solutions Ltd., 972.3.634.3223; fax 972.3.634.3225; www.MuTek.com.
National Instruments Announces LabVIEW v5.0
National Instruments has announced LabVIEW v5.0, the company's graphical instrumentation software. Version 5.0 features include: multithreading, distributed computing tools, instrument wizards, translation and documentation tools, an ActiveX container, graphical differencing tools, automation and TCP/IP server, and programmatic menu bars and undo.
LabVIEW v5.0 is available for Windows NT/95/3.1, Mac OS, Solaris, HP-UX, and Concurrent PowerMAX.
LabVIEW v5.0 costs $995 for Windows NT/95/3.1 PCs, $2,995 for Sun and HP workstations, $1,995 for Mac OS computers, and $4,995 for Concurrent PowerMAX. Windows or Macintosh upgrades cost $295; Unix upgrades cost $395.
For more information contact National Instruments, 800.258.7022 or 1.512.794.0100; fax 1.512.794.8411; info@natinst.com; www.natinst.com.
LEAD Technologies Announces LEADTOOLS 9.0
LEAD Technologies has released LEADTOOLS 9.0, the company's imaging toolkit. New features included in version 9.0 are common dialog boxes to speed development, support for over 50 image file formats, and optional FlashPix, Video, and OCR modules to permit users to tailor-fit LEADTOOLS to their needs.
The FlashPix Module includes FlashPix viewing transformations, FlashPix thumbnails, loading and saving portions of an image without using the entire image, and non-image data. The Video Module creates video frames with synchronized sound; creates, edits, plays, and saves AVI files; records, plays, and saves WAV files; and plays MIDI files. The OCR Module, based on Xerox TextBridge technology, includes artificial intelligence (AI) to learn from errors and provides area selection from a scanned image for exceptionally accurate character recognition.
For more information contact LEAD Technologies, Inc., 800.637.4699 or 1.704.332.5532; fax 1.704.372.8116; sales@leadtools.com; www.leadtools.com.
Northeast Data Announces NED Image ActiveX Control v2.0
Northeast Data Corporation has announced the NED Image ActiveX Control v2.0. The NED Image ActiveX Control can display, print, and save images. It supports JPEG, TARGA, PCX, BMP, TIFF (CCITT G3, CCITT G4, color, multi-page), and PCD (read only). Images can be rotated and scrolled, and the control supports multiple types of color reduction for the best possible display on an image-by-image basis. NED Image ActiveX Control also provides full image clipboard support for all native image formats, including metafiles; and URL download capability for Internet and intranet document-management applications.
NED Image ActiveX Control v2.0 costs $249. A demo is available from www.frontiernet.net/~ned1/index.htm.
For more information contact Northeast Data Corporation, 1.716.426.7334; fax 1.716.426.7334; ned1@frontiernet.net; www.frontiernet.net/~ned1/index.htm.
Snowbound Software Announces RasterMaster 7.0 and RasterMaster/GrayScale
Snowbound Software Corporation has released RasterMaster 7.0 and RasterMaster/Grayscale, its extended gray-scale, medical-imaging support for the RasterMaster line of products. RasterMaster/Grayscale provides the ability to display and manipulate sophisticated medical images previously possible only with dedicated medical-imaging hardware. Snowbound also announced support for the DICOM CAT-scan.
The new RasterMaster tools enhance the desktop's abilities to support sophisticated medical-image manipulation by permitting imaging functions such as contrast enhancement, brightness, cropping, rotation, and saving to be applied to gray-scale images from 8 to 16 bits. Now CAT scans, MRI, cell dissection images, and other sophisticated images can be handled on a standard PC, MAC, or Unix workstation.
For more information contact Snowbound Software, 1.617.630.9495; fax 1.617.630.0210; salesp@snowbnd.com; www.snowbnd.com.
EST Introduces Modular Development Platform Series
Embedded Support Tools (EST) Corporation has introduced a Modular Development Platform (MDP) series of single-board computers. The MDP series of boards are available for the Motorola PowerPC 800 family processors. EST also offers MDP boards that support other PowerPC families (6xx/7xx/5xx), as well ColdFire and 683xx processors.
The MDP series provides users with a reference for their own early hardware and software development. The MDP series consists of two target-independent platform boards (MDP Platform) and Interchangeable CPU Modules (ICMxxx). Changing targets requires swapping CPU cards only. All memory, I/O, and other peripheral devices, including basic software drivers, remain the same.
For more information contact Embedded Support Tools Corporation, 800.957.5588 or 1.781.828.5588; fax 1.781.821.2268; sales@estc.com; www.estc.com.
TechExcel Announces PowerTrack
TechExcel Corporation has announced PowerTrack, a web-enabled defect tracker that tracks and manages all defects, documentation/feature requests, and development issues. Standard features include a scalable client/server architecture; and universal ODBC support for databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle. PowerTrack supports Windows 95 and Windows NT.
PowerTrack costs $389 per license. TechExcel also provides a fully functioning evaluation copy that can be downloaded from the company's website at www.powertrack.com.
For more information contact TechExcel, Inc., 800.439.7782 or 1.510.283.8930; fax 1.510.283.8931; info@techexcel.com; www.powertrack.com.
Rainbow Technologies Announces Sentinel Express
Rainbow Technologies, Inc. has introduced Sentinel Express, a software licensing tool for developers providing secure software distribution and license activation via the Internet. Sentinel Express incorporates Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) and Electronic License Distribution (ELD). Sentinel Express works in conjunction with Rainbow's license key-generation software, Sentinel License Manager.
For more information contact Rainbow Technologies, Inc., 800.852.8569 or 1.714.450.7300; fax 1.714.450.7450; www.rainbow.com.
InstallShield Announces InstallShield Java Edition v1.0
InstallShield Software Corporation has announced InstallShield Java Edition v1.0, a development tool for creating cross-platform Java application installations. The Java Edition allows developers to create and maintain one installation that runs on all supported VMs, while adding 40K of overhead to the installation.
InstallShield Java Edition features include the ability to display dialogs with company and application information, readme files, and license agreements; an uninstallation function; silent-mode support; and the ability to create launch scripts.
InstallShield Java Edition also includes Windows-specific functionality for creating shortcuts, modifying the registry, and specifying self-registering files.
InstallShield Java Edition v1.0 costs $495. It can be purchased from authorized resellers, direct from the company, or ordered and downloaded directly from the InstallShield website at www.installshield.com/isorder.
For more information contact InstallShield Corporation, 800.374.4353 or 1.847.240.9111; fax 1.847.240.9120; info@installshield.com; ww.installshield.com.
ViaTech Introduces VT Protect 5.0
ViaTech Inc. has announced VT Protect 5.0, the latest version of its software-based, anti-piracy product. VT Protect 5.0 introduces an adaptive fingerprint technology that provides a secure, node-locked licensing solution. Based on developer requirements, a balanced level of flexible license compliance can be enacted. In addition, VT Protect 5.0 includes a secure clock anti-tampering mechanism.
VT Protect features a "multi-pass" encryption scheme. This method gathers a piece of system or hardware information (i.e. IP address, operating system information, BIOS ID) and scrambles it, then gathers a second piece of information and scrambles it with the first, then finds a third piece of information and combines that with the first two, and so on until it creates an identifier completely unique to the system.
VT Protect 5.0 costs between $800-$1,000 for administration tools and an initial 100 keys. Volume-based pricing is available for additional keys.
For more information contact ViaTech, Inc., 1.508.647.0464; fax 1.508.647.0463; www.viatech-inc.com.
Cygnus Releases GNUPro Toolkit 97r2 Supporting Embedded C++
Cygnus Solutions has announced GNUPro Toolkit 97r2, which includes Embedded C++ (EC++) support. GNUPro Toolkit 97r2 includes C++ support for member templates and improved exception handling, adding more powerful C++ language attributes.
EC++ in Cygnus' GNUPro Toolkit 97r2 is implemented as an option enabled during program compilation. The compiler searches the code for certain restricted features of C++ and flags their presence to the developer as warnings or hard errors if desired. The developer can eliminate these features to make the code compliant with the EC++ specification and in doing so, will potentially decrease code size and memory needs and increase the run-time efficiency. Cygnus gives the developer the option to issue hard errors instead of warnings for the use of restricted features, allowing progression through the design cycle with warnings initially, and hard errors during the final phases. Cygnus' implementation of EC++ allows programmers to develop code without the need to work around known EC++ violations, thus increasing productivity and decreasing time-to-market.
Pricing for GNUPro 97r2 starts at $7,495 for native tools and $9,995 for embedded tools, and includes the toolkit and a one-year support contract for up to five developers.
For more information contact Cygnus Solutions, Inc., 800.294.6871 or 1.408.542.9600; fax 1.408.542.9699; www.cygnus.com.
Softstar Releases Costar 5.0 Estimating Tool
Softstar Systems has released Costar 5.0, a software estimating product that implements the new COCOMO II estimation model. Costar provides software managers with estimates of a software project's cost, schedule, and staffing. Costar can compare alternative project plans side-by-side, allowing managers to perform trade-offs, sensitivity analyses, and what-if experiments. These features allow a manager to test different strategies until the optimum project plan is formulated.
COCOMO II is an update to the original model, developed to describe modern software-development life cycles, including Incremental, Spiral, and Rapid Prototyping projects. Costar 5.0 provides full support for the latest COCOMO II software sizing and reuse models. As in previous versions, Costar 5.0 supports Function Points, traditional COCOMO, Ada COCOMO, and Incremental Development COCOMO.
Costar 5.0 for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 costs $950 for a single CPU license; a site license or a network license costs $5,000; a corporate license costs $23,000.
For more information contact Softstar Systems, 1.603.672.0987; fax 1.603.672.3640; sales@SoftstarSystems.com; www.SoftstarSystems.com.
MKS Releases MKS Toolkit 6.1
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. has released MKS Toolkit 6.1, an NT scripting and migration solution. Every MKS Toolkit 6.1 order also ships with a $10 Domino's Pizza gift certificate.
MKS Toolkit 6.1 features include chacl and lsacl to view and change the access control lists of files, directories, and any NT object; db to send SQL instructions to any ODBC-compliant database without the need for complex database tools; groupinfo, userinfo, and member to add, delete, or update group information on NT from the command line; and mapimail/smtpmail to send mail to any MAPI- or SMTP-compliant mail server from the command line or a script file.
For more information contact Mortice Kern Systems Inc., 800.265.2797 or 1.519.884.2251; fax 1.519.884.8861; sales@mks.com; www.mks.com.
Ashling Introduces CT68HC11 Microprocessor Development System
Ashling Microsystems has introduced the CT68HC11 Microprocessor Development System for the Motorola MC68HC11KW1 microcontroller for communications modems, POS terminal control, car climate controllers, and audio amplifier applications. The MC68HC11KW1 microcontroller is similar to the 68HC11K4, also supported by Ashling's in-circuit emulator. The MC68HC11KWl contains a Bank Switched Memory Management Unit that is fully supported by the Ashling Development System.
Ashling's CT68HC11 Microprocessor Development System provides a complete development environment for the 68HC11 microcontrollers, including low-voltage derivatives. The CT68HC11 in-circuit emulator and PathFinder for Windows source-level debugger offer a single, uniform Windows-hosted environment for hardware debugging, C code integration, source-level debugging, and software performance analysis. The Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller family and its derivatives are fully supported in ROM (single-chip), ROMless (external memory), and on-chip EEPROM/EPROM/Flash modes.
For more information contact Ashling Microsystems Ltd., 800.729.7700 or 1.408.747.0440; fax 1.408.747.0688; sales@ashling.com; www.ashling.com.
Passport Announces IntRprise for Harnessing Legacy Code
Passport Corporation has announced Passport IntRprise, an object-oriented 4GL development environment for enterprise grade client/server development. Passport IntRprise allows developers to reuse the code in existing applications. The flexible architecture of IntRprise enables developers to build applications that can be deployed as thin-client applications, thin-server applications, and thin-network applications.
Passport IntRprise is available for Windows 95/NT/3.1, Open/VMS, and Unix. IntRprise can be deployed on all Java-supported applications. Pricing for Passport IntRprise starts at $8,995.
For more information contact Passport Corporation, 1.201.634.1100; fax 1.201.634.0406; www.passportcorp.com.
Bumble Bee Software Announces Object Outline 2.1
Bumble Bee Software has released Object Outline 2.1 for Windows 95/NT, a program for developing documentation for C and C++ applications and end-user documentation. Object Outline generates information about the program's size and complexity, and integrates the information with the source-code comments, design documents, analysis documents, and project diagrams into a single integrated document. Object Outline runs without changes to the source code, and requires no special formatting codes.
Object Outline extracts the function definitions, the function documentation, the class definitions, and the class documentation from the source code. With Object Outline, software developers can browse through the high-level documentation without getting bogged down in reams of source code, getting lost in a maze of source files, or trying to figure out what source directory to look in next.
Object Outline for Windows costs $297. A free, working evaluation copy is available at www.bbeesoft.com.
For more information contact Bumble Bee Software, Inc., 888.646.1933 or 1.978.392.1933; fax 1.978.392.1932; info@bbeesoft.com; www.bbeesoft.com.
Nombas Announces ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0
Nombas, Inc. has released ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0, a developers' kit for applications and embedded systems. The kit is designed to enhance, extend, and customize applications using the JavaScript-compatible ScriptEase scripting language. The ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0 allows developers to embed a fully functional script-language interpreter into any C/C++ application.
ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0 provides an interpreter engine without the time, engineering, or hardware resources required to develop a proprietary macro language. ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0 allows for more flexible applications, improved code reuse, easier portability, and significantly reduced application development times.
ScriptEase:Integration SDK 4.0 costs $995.
For more information contact Nombas, Inc., 1.781.391.6595; fax 1.781.391.3842; nombas@nombas.com; www.nombas.com.
Neural Computer Sciences Releases Neural ActiveX Suite
Neural Computer Sciences (NCS) has released its suite of intelligent technologies as ActiveX components. The suite includes an advanced Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) with back propagation, Köhonen networks, NEUfuzzy (fuzzy logic neural network), and Radial Basis Function (RBF). Data encoders are also available in ActiveX format, allowing the input of non-numeric data such as M/F or Y/N.
For more information contact Neural Computer Sciences, 44.1703.667775; fax 44.1703.663730; sales@ncs.co.uk; www.ncs.co.uk.
MathTools Announces MATCOM
MathTools Ltd. has announced MATCOM, a MATLAB compiling and integration solution for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Basic, and Borland Delphi. Scientists and engineers in engineering, finance, and other technical fields can develop algorithms in MATLAB and automatically incorporate them in applications created with user-friendly tools such as Visual Basic, Delphi, and Excel.
The integration is achieved by compiling the algorithms to independent, royalty-free DLLs using MATCOM, and incorporating the DLLs into an application. Compilation is fully automatic, using a smart project manager.
MATCOM integration technology enhances MathTools' commitment for providing the best integration solution for MATLAB programmers using industry-standard Windows 95/NT applications.
A fully functional, time-limited evaluation version of MATCOM can be freely downloaded from the MathTools website.
For more information contact MathTools Ltd., 888.628.4866 or 1.212.208.4476; fax 1.212.208.4477; info@mathtools.com; www.mathtools.com.
devSoft Announces New Editions of IP*Works!
devSoft Inc. has announced the release of two new editions of IP*Works!, a developer's toolkit for Windows/95/NT. The toolkit enables developers to build a wide range of Intranet and Internet applications using popular development environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, and others.
IP*Works! C++ Edition consists of a set of C++ classes for TCP/IP programming packaged in a DLL. IP*Works! Builder Edition contains native Borland C++ Builder VCLs for visual programming using the Borland C++ Builder IDE.
IP*Works contains simple high-level programmable components, such as interfaces to Internet Mail and Usenet News, as well as powerful TCP/IP programming tools used to build generic clients and servers. All controls have interfaces that shield developers from the complexity of TCP/IP while giving them access to a wide spectrum of Winsock features.
IP*Works Editions are available for $195 plus shipping and handling. Free evaluation copies may be downloaded from www.dev-soft.com/.
For more information contact devSoft, Inc., Phone/Fax 1.919.493.5805; sales@dev-soft.com; www.dev-soft.com.