MapuSoft has added new APIs to OS Abstractor that enable asynchronous signaling. Initially OS PAL Profiler only supported profiling for BASE OS Abstractor APIs. Under 1.3.3 the profiling is now extended to support application functions. The new release also provides users the ability to generate standalone OS Abstractor and OS Changer from OS PAL.

More information about MapuSoft Technologies Release 1.3.3 can be found here:http://mapusoft.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/release-notes_1-3-3.pdf

Join MapuSoft Technologies’ CEO & Founder Raj Johnson as he hosts a technical demonstration of OS PAL and learn how OS PAL can make your host development, optimization, simulation and porting easier!

Register Now! Space is Limited!

Schedule:

Nov. 19th: See an application ported to multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - VxWorks Porting

1:00pm US Central Time - pSOS Porting

Nov. 26th: Generate portable code for multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - OS Abstractor

1:00pm US Central Time - OS Abstractor

Dec. 3rd: See an application ported to multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - VxWorks Porting

1:00pm US Central Time - pSOS Porting

Dec. 10th: Generate portable code for multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - OS Abstractor

1:00pm US Central Time - OS Abstractor

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OS PAL Overview

With OS PAL you can easily port, abstract and optimize your code on a host machine and run the application on different target platforms.

OS PAL leverages the existing OS Changer and OS Abstractor technologies while adding advanced code optimization capacities on multiple OS environments. OS PAL provides users an easy-to-use graphical user interface that is integrated with the Eclipse based CDT environment. OS PAL simulates various OS interfaces on host development environments so users can develop embedded code with preferred OS APIs and without the target hardware.

OS PAL Highlights

• Don’t be constrained by a limited availability of your target hardware, begin developing the application before the hardware is available to improve your time to market
• OS PAL’s state-of-the-art Eclipse based IDE offers seamless integration into existing development flows enabling a high degree of usability and productivity
• Simulate your application on a host for easy testing, verification and presentation
• Generate optimized code for multiple target operating systems

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In theory, embedded applications developed using industry standard POSIX APIs are portable across multiple POSIX-based platforms if the same set of POSIX features are available across all the OS platforms. This is not always true.

In order for embedded applications to be portable, it is very important that the POSIX APIs also behave the same across all OS platforms. One example of differing behavior is the inconsistency on which a POSIX function call will suspend a calling thread when a higher priority thread is in the ready state. Embedded applications may require a calling thread to suspend when it sends a message or an event while a higher priority thread is waiting to receive the message. Conversely, an embedded application may not want the calling thread to suspend until its scheduling time slice is over. Another example is how different OS schedulers behave when load balancing threads across applications.

Using a mutex is a simple means to lock out a scheduler, prevent thread suspension, and cater to other application needs. However, a mutex decreases performance and also introduces potential deadlock situations. Ideally, embedded applications need to know which APIs will suspend the calling thread and how to avoid undesired suspensions.

Because POSIX API behavior differs across OS platforms, it is difficult to consistently meet the multitude of application requirements. To maintain code portability, developers need a POSIX solution that strictly adheres to standards, meets embedded application needs in a non-intrusive manner (i.e. without breaking POSIX compliancy), and provides consistency in API behavior. For example, a solution suitable for telecom type applications might have a configuration option that allow all the POSIX threads to always run-to-completion before giving up control to the scheduler. A controller type application may require that a higher priority thread take control and run immediately when the suspension is lifted as opposed to allowing the current thread to finish its allotted CPU time slice. Mission critical applications may require that all the resources are statically pre-created to avoid failures during run-time (i.e. reserving memory, allocating control blocks up front, re-using threads from thread pools, etc.).

It takes more than just mimicking POSIX APIs to make embedded applications portable across OS platforms. The consistency of API behavior must also be considered. MapuSoft’s POSIX OS Abstractor is designed to meet the needs of various embedded applications with performance and full code portability in mind while allowing developers to add features without breaking POSIX compliancy.

For more info about MapuSoft’s OS Abstractor visit:
www.mapusoft.com/products/osabstractor

MapuSoft Technologies Release 1.3.3

MapuSoft Technologies would like to announce our release 1.3.3. The release encompasses all upgrades to MapuSoft’s OS Abstractor, OS Changer, and OS PAL solutions.

MapuSoft has added new APIs to OS Abstractor that enable asynchronous signaling. Initially OS PAL Profiler only supported profiling for BASE OS Abstractor APIs. Under 1.3.3 the profiling is now extended to support application functions. The new release also provides users the ability to generate standalone OS Abstractor and OS Changer from OS PAL.

More information about MapuSoft Technologies Release 1.3.3 can be found here:
http://mapusoft.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/release-notes_1-3-3.pdf

DASC 2008:

When: October 26th-30th

Where: Crowne Plaza Riverfront, St. Paul, MN

Details: MapuSoft will exhibit Oct. 27th - 29th. Stop by our booth for a demonstration of our OS PAL product and get a free hat and t-shirt!

More info: www.dasconline.org

Webinars:
Join MapuSoft Technologies in a technical demonstration as we show you how to make host development, optimization, simulation and porting easier with OS PAL!

For more info about the webinars and for future schedules visit: http://mapusoft.com/webinar/257/

Oct. 15th: Generate portable code for multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - OS Abstractor

1:00pm US Central Time - OS Abstractor

Oct. 22nd: See an application ported to multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - VxWorks Porting

1:00pm US Cenral Time - pSOS Porting

Oct. 29th: Generate portable code for multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - OS Abstractor

1:00pm US Central Time - OS Abstractor

Nov. 5th: See an application ported to multiple RTOS with OS PAL
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9:30am US Central Time - VxWorks Porting

1:00pm US Central Time - pSOS Porting

Happenings in the Embedded World:

Using Static Analysis to Diagnose & Prevent Failures in Safety-Critical Device Designs

Sun Shines on the Green Engineer

Trust, But Verify

Ten Lies About Microprocessors

Another Satisfied MapuSoft Customer!

MapuSoft Technologies would like to introduce Macraigor Systems LLC to our readers!

Macraigor Systems is a leading supplier of low-cost, high quality tools for debugging your embedded CPU. They cover the widest range of target CPUs with an array of tools to meet your budget and your debugging requirements. Macraigor offers several hardware interfaces for on-chip debugging, an innovative software line, and testing & updating tools.

For more info about Macraigor Systems visit: www.macraigor.com

When:
Presentation - Wenesday, Oct. 29th, 10:30am
Exhibit - October 27th - 29th

Where:
DASC - Crowne Plaza Riverfront, St. Paul, MN

Stop by our booth to view a demonstration of our OS PAL product and get a free hat and t-shirt!

For more information about DASC visit http://www.dasconline.org/

Click to view the testimonial in PDF format: Tecnobit Testimonial

For more information about ESC India visit www.cmpegevents.com/web/esci/home

For more information about Kumaravel Pandurangan visit www.mapusoft.com/about/profile

Webinars:
Join MapuSoft Technologies in a technical demonstration as we show you how to make host development, optimization, simulation and porting easier with OS PAL!

For more info about the webinars and for future schedules visit: http://mapusoft.com/webinar/257/

July 23
See an application ported to multiple RTOS
9:30am US (CDT) – VxWorks Porting
1pm US (CDT) – pSOS Porting

For more info about OS Changer visit:
http://mapusoft.com/products/oschanger/

July 30
Generate portable code for multiple RTOS
9:30am US (CDT) – OS Abstractor
1pm US (CDT) – OS Abstractor

For more info about OS Abstractor visit:
http://mapusoft.com/products/osabstractor/

August 13
See an application ported to multiple RTOS
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9:30am US (CDT) – VxWorks Porting
1pm US (CDT) – pSOS Porting

For more info about OS Changer visit:
http://mapusoft.com/products/oschanger/

August 20
Generate portable code for multiple RTOS
Click a time below to register:
9:30am US (CDT) - OS Abstractor
1pm US (CDT) – OS Abstractor

For more info about OS Abstractor visit:
http://mapusoft.com/products/osabstractor/

Why You Should Use a Target Code Profiling Tool

For most organizations, embedded applications which are slow and/or unresponsive to a user’s request are not an option. Every embedded developer needs his or her code to run quickly and efficiently. The question is: “How do you ensure that your code is actually running quickly and efficiently?” The answer is to use a profiling tool which will collect data about the performance of your application. Such a tool can provide quantitative data during a period of execution such as code execution timings at specific or entire instances, best or worst case instances and system-wide or within a thread. Data can also be provided about code hit counts, indicating the number of times a particular API function is called by the application system wide or within a specific thread.

It is very important to collect profiler data under your real target environment (the specific operating systems and target hardware platform) rather than when the application is running on a host simulator. With this data you will be able to see exactly how your application is performing under a specific target environment, as it would in the real world, and optimize code where it is critical. Data collected under your target environment will also allow you to stop your guess work and zero in on key issues. Also, with target performance data, you have valuable information that can be used for comparison when choosing a new target.

A target code profiling tool can also benefit your development work, which critically affects your organization. If used early on during the development phase, a profiling tool can help you make design choices based on the profiling results. You can compare the performance of different development approaches and make sure your application is scalable early on in the project, avoiding costly problems later on. Also, if you can make your application run faster, you can accommodate more requests per server and therefore utilize less hardware. By using a code profiler throughout the development process, and optimizing performance, you will also be able to assess hardware requirements better and, potentially, reduce hardware costs.

MapuSoft’s OS PAL Profiler is a tool that provides such features as the ones outlined in this article. Provided at no extra cost to OS PAL users, the OS PAL Profiler enables API data collection to provide feedback concerning the utilization of MapuSoft’s APIs in the project. These reports allow for performance impact analysis by detailing API execution time and are available in area, bar, line, pie and scatter charts for graphical data analysis.

A free evaluation of OS PAL, including the Profiler, can be found here: http://mapusoft.com/downloads/

Integrating Code Reuse in Your Corporate Culture

While it seems like common sense to systematically reuse code rather than throwing away the investment and starting from scratch, many companies are struggling to fully implement code reuse throughout their organization, from top to bottom.

Though the top level executives may see the benefits of code reuse, there is a goal disconnect with engineering groups who fail to see both the business and technical benefits. Many times these technical groups have an adverse reaction to a top down push by executives and may be suspicious of incorporating technology they didn’t create themselves. This lack of goal congruence can be found when different organizations are working together as well. Government organizations are especially keen on reusing existing code base to decrease the cost from project to project. However, the prime companies they contract may not put such an importance on this aspect of the project and develop their solution from scratch.

To truly apply this critical strategy, code reuse must be integrated fully with your corporate culture. There are policies that can be implemented to encourage code reuse such as changing the measurements used to calculate productivity of engineers. For example, this may mean changing productivity measurements from the number of lines of code produced to the amount of time it took to complete the project. In this case the engineer will want to reuse as much as possible to make an earlier deadline. It should also be made known that an engineer still has control over his/her projects and are not less valuable by reusing what they have created, instead that they will be able to focus on contributing their knowledge to new projects rather than being bogged down by tedious porting work.

I think you will find that MapuSoft’s code reuse solutions will fit well within the culture of your organization. The original code will remain intact across multiple operating systems, keeping engineers in control of their applications. I invite technical developers to join our weekly webinar series where they can learn more about the technical aspects of code reuse and have their questions and concerns answered.

You can register here: http://mapusoft.com/webinar/257/

Sincerely,

Raj Johnson
President & CEO

Happenings in the Embedded World:

What Code Reuse Really Means

AUSA: Five-Year Looking Glass

Network Challenges Drive Form-Factor Choice

Using CompactPCI to Build Rugged Embedded Systems

The Evolution of Storage

MapuSoft Technologies recently increased its market presence and profile in Western Europe by signing a distribution pact with Antycip of France and Italy . Antycip supports products for many of the world’s leading software and hardware manufacturers and also tailors requirements to fit their customers’ current and future needs. Additionally, they offer many high technology, value added COTS solutions for real time embedded programming, simulation, training and other development needs.

MapuSoft Technologies is pleased to announce that Tecnobit, of Valdepeñas , Spain has selected MT’s OS Changer software reuse product for their current migration project. Tecnobit is using OS Changer to move their legacy software to the Linux operating system. The application that uses OS Changer is a simulator of a navigation console for a tactical data system for the Spanish Armada. By implementing MT’s solution, and recycling their original software, Tecnobit will save valuable development resources and eliminate an expensive and time consuming code rewrite.

Click to view the full press release

“At Tecnobit we strive daily to seek out the best development tools to improve the quality of our products and satisfy our customers. To accomplish these goals we employ tools such as OS Abstractor and OS Changer, which have a leading position in their market,” said Jesus Megia, Tecnobit’s Software Manager.

“The market for porting and abstracting military applications is quickly taking on global interest. As this is a key focus for MapuSoft Technologies, we are delighted and honored to support Tecnobit’s code migration efforts for the Spanish Armada,” said Dan Arzonico, MapuSoft’s Director of Sales.

MapuSoft offers the software reuse products OS Abstractor®, OS Changer® and OS PAL™ to help developers streamline development processes and reuse their embedded software on one or more operating systems. Target operating systems supported include VxWorks® 5x & 6x, Linux® 2.4 & 2.6, LynxOS®, Solaris®, Unix®, eCOS®, Windows XP®, Windows CE®, Nucleus®, ThreadX®, MQX®, QNX®, T-Kernel® and uITRON®.

OS Abstractor APIs give users the ability to effectively develop code independent of the underlying OS to protect software investment and to easily expand support to multiple operating systems. OS Abstractor provides a standard OS interface architecture, including common commercial BASE OS APIs and POSIX APIs. The BASE component offers a standard OS interface architecture that is flexible and intuitive for application development. The POSIX component offers industry standard API compliance for new code development and/or re-use of existing POSIX code base across multiple OS platforms. OS Changer protects user’s existing software investment and knowledge base by giving the ability to reuse pSOS®, VxWorks and Nucleus legacy code on different operating systems. OS PAL (OS Porting & Abstraction Lab) leverages on existing OS Abstractor and OS Changer technologies and provides an Eclipse® based IDE to easily port, abstract and optimize code on a host machine and run the application on different target OS platforms. A free evaluation of OS Changer, OS PAL and OS Abstractor can be downloaded at http://www.mapusoft.com/downloads

About MapuSoft Technologies, Inc.
MapuSoft Technologies is the leading provider of embedded software solutions and services designed to protect software investment by increasing the customers’ level of software re-use in product development. We are working hard to provide software that is practical, familiar, and economical. Our products are royalty-free and available with source code. For more information on MapuSoft Technologies or any of our products, please contact us at 251.665.0280, info@mapusoft.com or visit MapuSoft’s website at www.mapusoft.com

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OS Changer, OS Abstractor, OS PAL and MapuSoft are registered trademarks of MapuSoft Technologies, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

• Powerful addition from Jungo to MapuSoft’s existing product line enhances hardware access capabilities
• Jungo’s WinDriver enables cross-platform USB, PCI and PCI Express driver development
• WinDriver toolkit is now available to MapuSoft customers as an add-on to existing product offering
  

Mobile, AL, June, 23, 2008 - Today MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced it will add WinDriver™ the cross-OS driver development tool to its current list of product offerings. The WinDriver product line, developed by Jungo Ltd., allows for development of USB, PCI, and PCI Express drivers and supports any device, regardless of its silicon vendor. With this unique tool and its standardized APIs, developers can easily develop driver code for multiple supported operating systems. This includes Windows® 2000/XP/XP Embedded/Server 2003/Vista, Windows CE.NET, Windows Mobile 5/6, Linux®, Solaris® and VxWorks®. Available to MapuSoft customers as an add-on, WinDriver enhances MT’s current application code reuse products OS Changer, OS Abstractor and OS PAL.

“We are pleased to offer MapuSoft’s customers the ability to use the WinDriver toolkit to develop high-quality, high-performance drivers. The added value of the WinDriver product line will be an asset to MapuSoft’s product offerings and its customers,” says Ophir Herbst, VP and General Manager for Jungo Connectivity Software.

“We are delighted to team up with Jungo Ltd. The WinDriver product line greatly expands our porting and abstraction capability and will provide system stability and savings to our customer base,” says Dan Arzonico, MapuSoft’s Director of Sales.

MapuSoft offers the software reuse products OS Abstractor®, OS Changer® and OS PAL™ to help developers streamline development processes and reuse their embedded software on one or more operating systems. Target operating systems supported include VxWorks® 5x & 6x, Linux® 2.4 & 2.6, LynxOS®, Solaris®, Unix®, eCOS®, Windows XP®, Windows CE®, Nucleus®, ThreadX®, MQX®, QNX®, T-Kernel® and uITRON®.

OS Abstractor APIs give users the ability to develop code independently of the underlying OS to protect software investment and to expand support to multiple operating systems easily. OS Abstractor provides a standard OS interface architecture, including common commercial BASE OS APIs and POSIX APIs. The BASE component offers a standard OS interface architecture that is flexible and intuitive for application development. The POSIX component offers industry standard API compliance for new code development and/or re-use of existing POSIX code base across multiple OS platforms. OS Changer protects user’s existing software investment and knowledge base by giving the ability to reuse pSOS®, VxWorks and Nucleus legacy code on different operating systems. OS PAL (OS Porting & Abstraction Lab) leverages on existing OS Abstractor and OS Changer technologies and provides an Eclipse® based IDE to easily port, abstract and optimize code on a host machine and run the application on different target OS platforms. A free evaluation of OS Changer, OS PAL and OS Abstractor can be downloaded at www.mapusoft.com/downloads.

About MapuSoft Technologies, Inc.
MapuSoft Technologies is the leading provider of embedded software solutions and services designed to protect software investment by increasing the customers’ level of software re-use in product development. MT strives to provide software that is practical, familiar, and economical. MT products are royalty-free and available with source code. For more information on MapuSoft Technologies or any of our products, please contact us at 251.665.0280, info@mapusoft.com or visit MapuSoft’s website at www.mapusoft.com.

About Jungo
Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company, is a provider of broadband home value-added service solutions. Jungo’s flagship products, OpenRGTM (residential gateway software platform) and OpenSMBTM (small and medium business gateway software platform) enable broadband Operators to deliver managed revenue-generating services to the digital home.

Jungo also offers extensive connectivity software solutions for USB and PCI, including WinDriverTM, a driver development toolkit that enables developers to quickly create custom device drivers that can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification, and USBwareTM, a complete, high-quality embedded USB software protocol stack, allowing device manufacturers to easily incorporate standard USB OTG/Host/Device connectivity in their designs.

To find out more about Jungo Ltd. and our products, please visit www.jungo.com.

About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to pay-television platform operators and content providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.

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Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements
This document may contain certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market, regulatory and other factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Any “forward-looking statements” included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation, nor do we undertake, to publicly update any “forward-looking statements” to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.

For Further Information:

MapuSoft Technologies
Karin Barnard
Marcom Specialist
Tel: 251-665-0280 ext. 306
karin.barnard@mapusoft.com

Jungo
Daphna Weiss
Marcom Manager
Tel: +972-9-8859365 ext. 101
daphna@jungo.com

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OS Changer, OS Abstractor, OS PAL and MapuSoft are registered trademarks of MapuSoft Technologies, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

“We are honored to have Redback Networks in the MapuSoft Technologies Inc. family as a user and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship for both organizations” said Dan Arzonico, MapuSoft’s Director of Sales.

MapuSoft offers the software reuse products OS Abstractor®, OS Changer® and OS PAL™ to help developers streamline development processes and reuse their embedded software on one or more operating systems. Target operating systems supported include VxWorks® 5x & 6x, Linux® 2.4 & 2.6, LynxOS®, Solaris®, Unix®, eCOS®, Windows XP®, Windows CE®, Nucleus®, ThreadX®, MQX®, QNX®, T-Kernel® and uITRON®.

OS Abstractor APIs give users the ability to effectively develop code independent of the underlying OS to protect software investment and to easily expand support to multiple operating systems. OS Abstractor provides a standard OS interface architecture, including common commercial BASE OS APIs and POSIX APIs. The BASE component offers a standard OS interface architecture that is flexible and intuitive for application development. The POSIX component offers industry standard API compliance for new code development and/or re-use of existing POSIX code base across multiple OS platforms. OS Changer protects user’s existing software investment and knowledge base by giving the ability to reuse pSOS®, VxWorks and Nucleus legacy code on different operating systems. OS PAL (OS Porting & Abstraction Lab) leverages on existing OS Abstractor and OS Changer technologies and provides an Eclipse® based IDE to easily port, abstract and optimize code on a host machine and run the application on different target OS platforms. A free evaluation of OS Changer, OS PAL and OS Abstractor can be downloaded at http://www.mapusoft.com/downloads