TTE Systems Announces Two New RapidiTTy™ Products
Leicester, UK, 28 January 2008. TTE Systems Ltd., a recent entrant in the embedded development tools market, has announced two major new products in its RapidiTTy™ family: RapidiTTy™ FPGA and RapidiTTy™ Builder. RapidiTTy products are targeted at the developers of deeply embedded applications such as control and monitoring operations in medical, defence, automotive and industrial sectors, as well as in white and brown goods. In these sectors, developers often face severe time-to-market constraints. In addition, the embedded system is often responsible for key functionality (e.g. controlling the ABS system of a modern car). Tools to support the rapid development of reliable embedded systems are therefore a key requirement.
The RapidiTTy family provides the first widely-available commercial integrated development environments (IDE) that provides easy access to time-triggered (TT) design techniques. TT systems are inherently reliable as their behaviour is highly predictable. With the introduction of the RapidiTTy family, which leverages over 12 years of research from the University of Leicester, TTE Systems has overcome the traditional barriers to TT, enabling its widespread use on low-cost microcontrollers and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Following initial sales in Europe and the US, RapidiTTy FPGA is now on general public release. RapidiTTy FPGA includes the PH 03 soft processor with an architecture that is familiar to many developers. RapidiTTy FPGA provides extensive GDB-based debug support (e.g. breakpoints and single-step from C), fully integrated with the IDE, and minimises the effort involved in precise timing analysis (including worst-case execution time measurements). RapidiTTy FPGA also provides a familiar, flexible IDE, helping to ease the transition between microcontroller- and FPGA-based development. Various licensing options are available for RapidiTTy FPGA, with a typical package (including VHDL source for the PH 03 core) costing £1950 + VAT / seat.
Also announced today is RapidiTTy Builder. RapidiTTy Builder accelerates TT software development for microcontrollers by simplifying and automating many of the necessary code generation and testing stages. RapidiTTy Builder provides extensive library support for both everyday tasks (switch and LCD interfaces, ADCs, PWM, UARTs, etc), and for the creation of Ethernet- and CAN-based designs. The package includes two TT operating systems for single-processor designs (sEOS, TTCos), plus a third OS (SCTTCos) which supports multi-processor designs. RapidiTTy Builder will be released in February 2008 at a cost of £495 + VAT per seat: a limited number of initial orders are now being taken under an “early bird” registration programme.
About TTE Systems
TTE Systems Ltd develops and sells cost-effective software tools which support the rapid development of reliable embedded systems, utilising time-triggered design techniques. TTE Systems was formed in 2006 to commercialise more than 12 years of research from the Embedded Systems Laboratory of the University of Leicester. The company was created with financial support from the Lachesis Fund (the University Challenge Seed Fund for the East Midlands) and the University of Leicester. The company is led by Dr Michael J. Pont, a world renowned expert in time-triggered system design and author of numerous papers and books on related subjects.
The TTE Systems website is here:
www.tte-systems.com