 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
a Trinity Convergence company |
||||||
OTTAWA, Canada — July 4, 2001 — Precise Software Technologies, Inc. -- a leading provider of innovative real-time operating system (RTOS) software, embedded protocols and development tools -- today announced a new GUI (Graphical User Interface) option for use with Precise/MQX real-time operating system. Precise has integrated Swell Software's popular PEG graphical user interface to work with both Precise/MQX RTOS and Precise/RTCS TCP/IP stack. The combination of Precise's high performance and scalable kernels and the capabilities of PEG now offers system developers a wide range of candidate microprocessors capable of hosting deeply embedded applications with a full graphical interface for the user.
"The ability to add sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUI) to embedded devices connected to the network is a requirement of our customers", said Dinesh Narayanan, marketing manager at Precise. "The integration Precise PEG and Precise/MQX brings high performance scalable GUI's to network applications with tight resource constraints."
"OEMs developing networking and telecommunications infrastructure, high-performance computing applications and portable computing devices need a proven GUI integrated with a reliable RTOS, sophisticated Internet protocols and extensive I/O support", said Ken Maxwell, president of Swell Software. "PEG together with the Precise/MQX RTOS and the Precise/RTCS full-featured TCP/IP effectively delivers this to today's embedded market", he further added.
The Precise PEG library is a professional quality graphical user interface library created to meet the needs of embedded systems developers. Unlike the alternatives, Precise PEG is small, fast, and easily ported to virtually any hardware configuration capable of supporting graphical output. Precise PEG also delivers exceptional visual appeal and an intuitive and powerful API for application-level user interface development.
Precise PEG comprises the following components:
Precise PEG provides a set of hardware and OS encapsulation classes that allow your Precise PEG user interface to run as a standard 32-bit Windows application
Precise PEG includes complete support for keypad, softkeys, mouse, joystick, and/or touch screen input. This includes drawing various pointer bitmaps or using hardware cursor capabilities. Complete mouse input drivers and touch screen input drivers are provided for each of the reference platforms.
Precise PEG fully supports two-byte characters and Unicode string encoding. The Precise PEG technology provides a solution for incorporating even very large character sets in memory-limited embedded systems.
Precise PEG is available in July 2001 for the ARCtangent processor. Precise PEG for ARM, PowerPC, and other targets will be released later in 2001. For more information on Precise PEG and other Precise products, call 800
Founded in 1989, Precise develops and markets innovative operating system and protocol software and development platforms used in wireless, networked and telecommunications products around the world.
With development headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Precise has sales personnel offices across North America and in the United Kingdom, with distributors in Australia, Japan, Korea, Belgium, Germany, and South Africa. ARC International plc [LSE: ARK] acquired Precise in April, 2000.
Founded in 1997, Swell Software, Inc. is a leading embedded software tools provider. Our flagship product, PEG was created to fill a void in the existing software tools by providing a graphical user interface solution created specifically for use in embedded systems. PEG is a complete development kit and class library for creating a professional quality graphical user interface. The PEG package include FontCapture for generating custom fonts, ImageConvert for compressing and ROMing images of any type, and the WindowBuilder visual screen designer.
- END -
For more information on Precise Software Technologies Inc., contact:
Renelle Chalifoux
Senior Marketing Communications
Precise Software Technologies Inc.
Tel: 613-596-2251 ext. 250
email: renelle.chalifoux@psti.com
Or visit the Precise website at: www.psti.com
Precise/MQX, Precise/RTCS, and the Precise logo are trademarks of Precise Software Technologies Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.
The information detailed in this press release discloses details of a product currently under development and is subject to change without notice. Precise Software Technologies Inc. assumes no responsibility for any errors contained within this press release and makes no commitments to update or to keep current the information. Persons contemplating designing using this information do so at their own risk and should contact their Precise representative to ensure that they are using current and correct information.
