SuperTest acknowledged as a unique and valuable test suite for compilers by leading evaluator, SIG

Tamworth Staffs and Amsterdam – 21 March, 2017

Phaedrus Systems, the specialist in the support of engineers at all stages of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity projects, has announced that SuperTest, the industry-leading and largest test and validation suite for C and C++ compilers and libraries, from Solid Sands, has been ranked highest on coverage, maintainability and quality in a comparative study of compiler test suites used within the safety-critical markets.

The evaluation was carried out by the Software Improvement Group (SIG) a specialist in evaluating software quality as defined by the ISO/IEC 25010 standard .

"SIG has produced this software quality report and also verified the unique features of SuperTest by comparison with the best known open source compiler test suites for C/C++," said Solid Sands' CCO Marianne Damstra. . ........ CONTINUES

In making the announcement Dave Edwards, Founder and CEO/CTO of SOMNIUM said, "Phaedrus Systems' experience and customer base is a perfect match for DRT. High-reliability and safety-critical environments are natural targets for the quality of code created within the DRT IDE." ........ CONTINUES

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West Des Moines, Iowa, USA & Tamworth, Staffs, UK 10th May 2016

Icon Labs a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced that it has selected Phaedrus Systems (www.phaedsys.com), the leading specialist in the support of engineers at all stages of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity projects in the United Kingdom, to be the exclusive reseller of Icon Lab’s award winning Floodgate Security Framework. “Worldwide, today’s modern industrial automation, utilities, and embedded devices are complex connected systems performing critical functions,” says Alan Grau, CEO of Icon Labs. . ........
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Tamworth, Staffordshire and Weston, FL– April 26, 2016

Micrium, the premier real-time operating system (RTOS) provider for embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Infineon Technologies has licensed the company’s µC/Probe™ data visualization tool. Infineon will ship the µC/Probe at no cost to customers of its XMC™ family of microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex®-M cores.

“The XMC family is a unique fit for applications such as motor control, power conversion, factory and building automation, renewable energy, transportation, LED lighting and home appliances,” said Maurizio Skerlj, Senior Director Industrial Microcontrollers at Infineon Technologies. “We enable convenient and time-saving development using XMC devices. Strong tools such as Micrium’s µC/Probe are a natural fit for our XMC families of ARM-based microcontrollers. For visualizing embedded systems, there are few tools on the market that are as powerful and easy-to-use.” . . ........ CONTINUES

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Federal Way, WA and Tamworth UK —3 February 2016 Phaedrus Systems is pleased to announce that McObject® has released eXtremeDB® 7.0, an upgrade to its embedded database management system (DBMS) product family for the Internet of Things (IoT). eXtremeDB was an early IoT enabling technology, and its usage has grown with today’s explosion in smart, connected electronics. Version 7 extends this track record, enabling devices and servers within the IoT to function more efficiently, securely and autonomously, while giving developers and architects more flexibility in building the technology that comprises this vast network.

“While, like other DBMS vendors, McObject has a focus on the Big Data aspect of the Internet of Things, it is unique in having an impressive track record addressing the need to manage IoT data at the ‘edge,’ on the very devices that, in the aggregate, generate Big Data," said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. "This understanding of the shared concerns and specific data management priorities in both locations has driven the improvements in eXtremeDB 7.0, resulting in a solution with broad appeal to developers.”

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Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany – January 12th, 2016

Phaedrus Systems has announced that it is now shipping the SEGGER Embedded Studio PRO, a new software bundle combining the SEGGER IDE, Embedded Studio, with library versions of SEGGER middleware, the industry-leading J-Link PLUS debug probe, as well as a newly announced emPower eval board.

"With this bundle a developer can begin work immediately on an ARM Cortex M based project," said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. "There is no longer any need to gather and integrate middleware, debugger and trace and a prototyping target board, from a range of sources."

SEGGER Embedded Studio was launched earlier this year to provide a powerful IDE for ARM microcontrollers, designed to provide all tools needed for professional embedded development. . ........ CONTINUES

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Compiler Validation Suite includes MISRA-C conformance

Tamworth Staffs and Amsterdam – 7 January, 2016

Phaedrus Systems now has available the Mondrian Release of SuperTest™, from Solid Sands. SuperTest is the industry-leading and largest compiler test and validation suite for C and C++ compilers originally developed by ACE Compilers. In addition to a wide range of enhancements and improvements the Mondrian Release provides a MISRA C:2004 conformance suite, the first available in a compiler validation suite.

"For anyone developing systems using the C language, the MISRA C guidelines should be essential," said Chris Hills CTO of Phaedrus Systems and Chair of the MISRA Languages Committee. "While there is a range of tools to check code compliance, until now there has been no way of knowing if the compiler also conformed. With this new version of SuperTest developers can have significantly greater confidence that their code will execute as intended.". ........ CONTINUES

Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany – November 23rd, 2015

Phaedrus Systems is now shipping the emPower eval board from SEGGER, an affordable platform for customers to enhance software evaluation, prototyping and proof of concept.

“We have seen increasing demand from customers for hardware working seamlessly with our software to explore its full potential”, says Alex Gruener, Chief Technology Officer at SEGGER. “With emPower, we now have a powerful and affordable platform to demonstrate the broad range of our products.”

The board ships with eval versions of SEGGER’s RTOS embOS, the file system emFile, the IP stack embOS/IP, the graphic library and GUI emWin, as well as USB stacks emUSB Device and Host. ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany 21st October 2015

Phaedrus Systems is now supplying new software from Segger that provides tools for creating the Secure Internet of Things. The software includes Cyclic Redundancy Checking (emLib CRC), an IPv6 TCP/IP stack (embOS/IP) with Secure Sockets Layer (emSSL) and a digital signature suite (emSecure-ECDSA). They are joined by a new data compression tool (emCompress) and a tool for digitally signing and verifying documents (emSecure Sign and Verify).

Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems, said, "These software elements extend Segger's offerings for the Secure Internet of Things. Since they come from a single supplier they are easy to integrate." The complete Segger offering, including the new Segger's new IDE, the Embedded Studio, will be the centre piece of Phaedrus Systems presence at the IoT Security Foundation Conference on December 1st at the IET . ........ CONTINUES

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Phaedrus Systems adds three new principals

Phaedrus Systems adds three new principals Further strengthens portfolio for engineers creating demanding embedded systems

Tamworth, Staffs, 8th September 2015 Phaedrus Systems, the leading distribute of tools for developing safety-critical and high-integrity embedded systems, has added two new principals. The company now distributes:


Tracealyzer, a runtime RTOS tracing tool, from Percepio.

SuperTest, a compiler test and validation suite for C and C++ from Solid Sands

In addition there were technical presentations from Rod Chapman of Protean Code on Agile in industry and Olwen Morgan on Compiler validation

Making the announcement, Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems, commented: "We are … to be able to announce that three new and outstanding tools will be available in the UK. Each of them caries out a task that adds to the developer's ability to create embedded systems that meet the demanding requirement the safety standards of automotive, aerospace, railways, nuclear and other critical systems applications." .. ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany 31st July 2015

Segger has upgraded the emFile file management system for embedded applications by adding a block grouping feature to reduce the amount of RAM needed for block management of NAND flash memory. NAND can now be used for gigabytes of data with even with smaller microcontrollers.

NAND flash is the fastest and most cost-efficient way to store large amounts of data, but when using external NAND memory with microcontrollers, RAM limitation is usually the bottleneck: for example, an 8 GB NAND flash, divided into 4096 blocks, would normally require 8 Kbyte RAM.

Using block grouping, where the driver treats multiple blocks as a single block, considerably reduces the RAM used for administrating the NAND flash memory. Users can scale the size of a block group according to their requirements. With block grouping, the RAM for an 8 GB NAND flash can be less than 1 Kbyte. Critically, block grouping does not affect processing speed.

This new feature further improves the efficiency of emFile’s NAND driver. It has outstanding read and write performance: almost 6 Mbytes/s for reading and 3.8 Mbytes/s for writing. Furthermore, it is fail-safe, which means the file system remains intact even in cases of unexpected resets. By adding the optional journaling feature, this safety can be extended to the data residing in the file system.

Block grouping is integrated in the latest release of emFile. . ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany 30th June 2015

Phaedrus System is releasing a new version of Segger's emSSL secure sockets implementation with both client and server capability. Needing only 7KB of RAM to support a secure connection between browser and the web-server makes emSSL suitable for operation on single-chip systems. "Secure communication is going to be vital for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT)," said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems "This implementation of emSSL is going to help developers create secure products."

Small embedded devices can send e-mail via encrypted connections or and retrieve or serve secure web pages using HTTPS. emSSL is highly efficienct in terms of RAM, ROM and processor load. It works seamlessly with SEGGER’s high performance IP Stack, embOS/IP, as well as with the embOS/IP Web Server extension. Alternatively, it runs smoothly with any IP Stack supporting plain sockets, or any bidirectional communications channel.

emSSL comes as a complete package with all modules provided in source code. The user has full control over the code used and does not need to worry about possible back doors or weaknesses in the code. It supports TLS version 1, 1.1 and 1.2 out of the box. Example code demonstrates how to access cloud-based services such as Dropbox and Twitter. ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffs, 1st May 2014

Phaedrus Systems will be in a give away mode at the UK Device Developers' Conferences in May and June http://www.device-developer-conference.co.uk/ At each of the four venues Phaedrus will be awarding a Kindle to the best solution to the "Coding Challenge", a man vs. machine review of 30 lines of code with multiple faults. The machine measurement is undertaken using QA·C, the static code analyser from PRQA, which has provides the challenge.

But code is only part of the development process, But code is only part of the development process, so Phaedrus will also be giving away signed copies of Software Projects: Evolutionary vs. Big Bang Delivery by Felix Redmill. This pioneering book on the issues of managing complex software projects has recently been re-published by Phaedrus as an e-book, but the author has signed four hard copies.

Finally Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus will be giving away wisdom in a presentation Is it supposed to do that? - Testing and Debugging Embedded Systems. CONTINUE......


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Tamworth, Staffs, 27th April 2015

Software Projects: Evolutionary vs Big Bang has been launched as a free PDF download. The book that was ahead of its time when Wiley first published is now even more relevant as more companies dive into Agile methods. It is based on Felix Redmill’s pioneering experience as a development manager. This edition has been re-typeset with all new diagrams. There is also a video interview with the author. CONTINUE......

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Tamworth, Staffs, 24th February 2015

Safety-critical specialist distributor Phaedrus Systems today announced the availability of embOS-Trace. This sophisticated tool from Percepio AB, the Swedish developer of RTOS visualization tools, offers an unprecedented insight into the runtime world for embedded software developers using SEGGER embOS and SEGGER J-Link debug probes. Percepio embOS-Trace is the latest member in Percepio’s Tracealyzer family and the embOS integration has been developed in collaboration with SEGGER. CONTINUE......

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Tamworth, Staffs and Hilden, Germany 7th January 2015

Phaedrus Systems is launching emSSL, a ground-up implementation of secure sockets that are the backbone of secure communications on the Internet today. Written by Segger Microcontroller to run effortlessly on single-chip embedded devices, emSSL integrates seamlessly with Segger's embOS/IP or, alternatively, any IP stack that supports plain sockets, or any bidirectional communications channel.

emSSL supports TLS (Transport Layer Security)version 1, 1.1, and 1.2 out of the box and provides modern cipher suites that offer robust authentication, confidentiality, message integrity, and forward secrecy. Whilst being compact, it is also highly efficient in terms of RAM, ROM, and processor load. emSSL's highly flexible and straightforward configuration targets small devices by linking only what’s necessary, and at the same time avoids a sea of pre-processor defines that drown other source code products.

“Increasingly security is an important feature of embedded systems, moving from industrial into consumer products, " said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems . "With emSSL Segger is further strengthening the emSecure digital signature suite.” . ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffs and Basingstoke Hants .. 17 November 2014
Safety-critical specialist distributer Phaedrus Systems is now selling the Lauterbach, µTrace an all-in-one debug and trace product for the ARM Cortex-M family.

"The Cortex-M is a very successful family, being implemented in many different chip designs," said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. "

The µTrace, while supporting JTAG, Serial Wire Debug and cJTAG, can also exploit the Instrument Trace Macrocell and the Embedded Trace Macrocell, where these have been implemented. And it is driven through the powerful TRACE32 modular development tool's high performance interactive user interface. And all this at a very attractive price."........ CONTINUES

Tamworth, Staffs, 10 November 2014 Phaedrus Systems, the UK specialist in the support of engineers at all stages of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity projects, is now able to supply and support the IXXAT data communication technology products from HMS Industrial Networks AB.

"Following the receivership of Nohau UK Ltd, some of our customers have been looking for a source for IXXAT products," said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. "We are pleased to be able to add this high quality technology to our portfolio of specialist tools." ........ CONTINUES

Hilden, Germany and Tamworth, Staffs, – November 6th, 2014 Embedded tools and software experts, SEGGER Microsystems, has introduced the Flasher PRO, device programmer. Combining the market leading Flasher ARM, Flasher RX and Flasher PPC into one single unit, Flasher PRO can program all supported devices in PC-based mode and most devices also in stand-alone mode. Flasher PRO can be controlled using RS232, handshake lines, USB and Ethernet, providing a high degree of flexibility combined with high speed flash programming. Flasher Pro is available from Phaedrus Systems in the UK........ CONTINUES

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Federal Way, WA, and Tamworth, Staffs, October 27, 2014 – McObject®, developer of innovative database system software, announced it has released version 6.0 of its eXtremeDB® In-Memory Database System (IMDS) and related product family. The upgrade adds support for distributed query processing, which improves database speed and scalability by leveraging the processing power, memory and bandwidth of multiple hardware nodes in carrying out queries. Additional improvements in version 6.0 benefit developers and end-users in areas including performance, ease of development and operating system support. In the UK, eXtremeDB is available from safety critical and high integrity embedded computing specialists, Phaedrus Systems

“eXtremeDB Cluster is already deployed in fields ranging from aerospace/defence to smart grid management and financial systems,” commented Phaedrus CTO, Chris Hills. “The improvements in eXtremeDB 6.0 mean it can address an even wider range of real-time computing challenges.”

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Tamworth, Staffordshire – 08th October 2014

In August 2014, Nohau UK Limited went into liquidation. This has caused some confusion in the engineering community. To clarify matters:- the Nohau In-Circuit emulators and other development tools are still being manufactured by ICE Technology of Burlingame, California, and are available in the UK exclusively from high reliability and safety critical specialists, Phaedrus Systems. Nohau Solutions AB, based in Sweden still serves the Nordic Region with products and services for the embedded market. . ........ CONTINUES

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Tamworth, Staffordshire and Weston, FL– 30th September 2014

Micrium, Inc., the premier RTOS provider for embedded systems, today introduced Micrium Spectrum™ a pre-integrated end-to-end portfolio of embedded software, protocol stacks, cloud services to facilitate development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A first in the industry, Micrium Spectrum is also silicon vendor agnostic, which allows designers to develop proprietary and differentiated solutions. Micrium Spectrum is available in the UK from safety-critical and high-integrity tools specialist, Phaedrus Systems. . ........ CONTINUES

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Hilden, Germany and Tamworth, England— 3rd September 2014

Segger Microcontroller, a leader in development tools and software for embedded systems, has introduced three new products to improve debugging: J-Scope data visualisation software, J-Link Real Time Terminal and a beta release of the stand-alone Debugger software. These products are for use with Segger's market-leading J-Link family of debug probes and are available in the UK from Phaedrus Systems Limited . ........ CONTINUES

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Västerås, Sweden and Tamworth, England— 28th April 2014

Specialist analysis tool company, Percepio, announces that Phaedrus Systems is now the official reseller in the UK for the company’s Tracealyzer software tools.

Tracealyzer is a family of highly visual diagnostics tools for embedded and Linux-based software that lets you look inside the runtime system in a new way. There are more than 20 high-level views that complement a debugger’s perspective. It works with a wide range of RTOS and other operating systems and the software recorder that attaches to the OS is so lightweight that in can remain in the field deployed system for future fault finding. ........ CONTINUES

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26 November 2013, Silicon Valley, CA USA and Tamworth, England, UK

Emprog has appointed specialist distributor Phaedrus Systems as the company’s reseller in the United Kingdom. In making the announcement Dan Augustine, Marketing Manager at Emprog said, “Phaedrus Systems has built a solid customer list and a reputation for technical competence. This makes them a good fit for Emprog ThunderBench, our comprehensive integration of a C/C++ compiler, debugger and IDE within the Eclipse platform for any ARM Cortex device.” “By packaging into a single installation everything you need to complete an embedded C/C++ application such as compiler, assembler, linker, and debugger, Emprog ThunderBench makes it easier to get up and running on a project,” said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. “In addition to the benefit of a high quality tool and exceptional compiler technology, you get community support that is difficult for a proprietary tools vendor to match.” Emprog ThunderBench is backed by ThunderCloud, a large web-based repository of ready-to-use BSPs for a wider range and newer ARM Cortex devices in the market. . ........ CONTINUES

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19th November 2013, Tamworth, England

Gimpel Software has announced that PC-Lint now supports MISRA C:2102. Existing users of PC-Lint V9 can download a patch immediately. “Misra C is not just for safety critical applications, but is a tool for producing good quality C for any application,” said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems, the Gimpel Distributer in the UK. “In order to ensure that the code complies with MISRA guidelines requires a static code analysis tool. PC-Lint is by far the most cost-effective static code analyser on the market.” A PC-Lint/MISRA C:2012 compliance matrix, showing clearly which rules the analysis can check (some MISRA C:2012 rules are not decidable or cannot be statically checked) is available from Phaedrus systems, who can also provide an upgrade path from PC-Lint V7 and V8. ........ CONTINUES

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September 1st 2013:Weston, Florida and Tamworth, Staffs.

Micrium, the premier supplier of high-quality software components for embedded systems, has appointed Phaedrus Systems as a European partner. Micrium’s flagship, the µC/OS family of real-time kernels, is supported by communications stacks, storage and display software and other real-time OS components. It also offers µC/Probe, a Windows application that uses a graphical dashboard to map the memory of any embedded target processor during run time. “Phaedrus Systems combines both in-depth technical expertise with a strong ethos of customer service,” said Jean Labrosse, Micrium’s founder. “We expect to work with the company to build relations with a wide range of customers.” “Micrium’s product family fits perfectly into the life-cycle for high-quality, real-time systems,” commented Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. “It allows us to produce solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers.” ........ CONTINUES

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26th August 2013, Tamworth, England. Phaedrus Systems, the specialists in tools for the development of safety-critical and high reliability embedded systems, is now the exclusive UK distributer of the Nohau embedded systems tools from ICE Technology. Phaedrus Systems will be selling and supporting Nohau’s hardware, including spares and upgrades, and the full range of related software for embedded system development......... CONTINUES

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May 1st 2013. The latest version of the McObject’s eXtremeDB embedded database system is now available from Phaedrus Systems. eXtremeDB 5.0 has new features that make eXtremeDB’s clustering faster and more flexible, and further simplify its administration.

“eXtremeDB Cluster is already deployed in fields ranging from aerospace/defence to smart grid management and financial systems,” commented Phaedrus CTO, Chris Hills. “The improvements in eXtremeDB 5.0 mean it can address an even wider range of real-time computing challenges.”

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26th February 2013, Nuremberg, Germany and Tamworth, England. Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems, the specialists in tools for the development of safety-critical and high reliability embedded systems, and a member of the MISRA-C team for the last decade, has welcomed the announcement of MISRA C:2012.

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New integration with Solace Message Router appliance acceleratescommunication in eXtremeDB High Availability deployments.

Tamworth, Staffs & Issaquah, WA — November 16, 2011 —

Phaedrus Systems, the leading supplier of tools and services to the developers of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity systems, today announced version 4.5 of  the  eXtremeDB® In-Memory Database System (IMDS) from McObject®. The upgrade improves performance in many key features, and introduces an integration option with third-party message router hardware to accelerate communication in fault-tolerant eXtremeDB High Availability deployments.  Version 4.5 also boosts developer productivity, with enhancements including a new Java application programming interface (API), improved SQL and High Availability interfaces, more efficient and scalable versions of popular database indexes, and more. ........ CONTINUES

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Farnborough and Tamworth, 3rd October 2011:

Escher Technologies, a leader in accessible formal-methods based software development and verification, has appointed Phaedrus Systems, the leading supplier of tools and services to the developers of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity systems, as its distributor in the United Kingdom.

“Escher is launching a new tool family, marking the next stage in the company’s development,” said Dr. David Crocker, founder of Escher Technologies. “The relationship with Phaedrus is part of this development. By helping us to reach a wider group of users they should help us move forward faster.”

Escher Verification Studio is a family of formal methods based tools for specifying, modelling and, if the chosen language is C, verifying the code against MISRA-C guideline and the functional specification.  It combines the established Perfect Developer (PD), with a new tool, the Escher C Verifier (eCv).  Both are available in free (capacity limited) or fully functional versions. Escher Verification Studio is available in all combinations of versions, to match developers’ needs and budgets.

“Escher Technologies brings formal methods within the reach of a much wider audience,” said Chris Hills, founder and CTO of Phaedrus. “The new Escher Verification Studio gives developers the confidence that they can now efficiently create high quality software meeting exacting standards.”

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Tamworth, 31 August 2011.  Phaedrus Systems has presented several industrial grade In-Circuit Emulators (ICE) to the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at Loughborough University.

The ICEs, donated by Phaedrus Systems’ customers, were accepted from Chris Hills, Phaedrus’ CTO by Bill Gabb, the Industrial Liaison Tutor in the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University.

The School’s undergraduate programme is strongly based in the real world, and uses, as far as possible, industrial tools. The ICEs join an Atmel 8051 lab, that Chris Hills was instrumental in donating. The lab is in regular use, introducing all computing students to assembler on 8-bit MCUs, important both for employable skills and for providing a first-hand understanding of computer hardware

Loughborough’s approach is reflected in the 96% employment rate for the embedded computing graduates, and the high take up of the optional work placement year.

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Tamworth, 11th August 2011: Phaedrus Systems is launching a new drag and drop tool for quickly and easily creating user interfaces. SEGGER’s emWin GUIBuilder replaces handwritten code with drag and drop supported by keyboard operations for quick placement of widgets.

“User interfaces are a vital part of any embedded design, yet can be difficult and time-consuming to create,” said Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems. “The emWin GUIBuilder requires no knowledge of C yet can produce GUIs that work well and are ergonomically sound.”

emWin GUIBuilder runs on a PC to produce a GUI that can be adapted to any size of physical or virtual display with any LCD controller and CPU. It is compatible with single task and multi-task environments, and runs with any commercial RTOS and with SEGGER’s emBOS.

The completed design is saved as compact C source code, which will run even in memory constrained systems. The code can be re-loaded into the editor to allow for changes to the GUI layout, even after adding code to further customize the interface.

The GUIBuilder is free for existing users of emWin. emWin is available as full source code and comes with a simple licensing model without royalties.

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Tamworth, Staffs. 21st September 2010. McObject’s Embedded Database Expands Marketing Reach of Loewe Opta’s Digital Televisions Phaedrus Systems, the leader in supplying tools and services to the developers of safety-critical and high-reliabilty embedded systems, has announced that German consumer electronics manufacturer Loewe Opta has released new digital television models with electronic programming guide (EPG) software based onMcObject®, developer of the eXtremeDB® Fusion embedded database system. By integrating McObject’s commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) database system into its new Individual SL and Compose SL TVs, Loewe Opta both reduced time-to-market for the products and ensured they would meet user demands for the fastest possible access to schedules, programs and other data.

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CATS has announced the RiskCAT for 61508 Version 2

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aming IEC 61508 Version 2

Phaedrus Systems is now supplying RiskCAT61508 for IEC61508, Edition 2. RiskCAT, from CATS Software Tools GmbH, is a tool for rapid and intuitive navigation of the standard, including selection of appropriate measures for a specific project and  calculation of the appropriate SILs (Safety Integrity Levels)

The new version 6 of RiskCAT61508 includes, as an optional component, a module for comparing IEC 61508 Edition 2 (2010) against Edition 1 (1998 until 2000). It also has an improved user interface, the option to compare different SILs as well as improvements in the definition of SILs.

London, 8th February 2010: Phaedrus Systems and IAR Systems have joined together to sponsor the Imperial College Robotics Society (ICRS) Robo-Tracer Competition. The sponsorship provides the teams at Imperial with copies of IAR Embedded Workbench integrated development environment, IAR KickStart Kits (a development kit), IAR J-link debug probes, IAR visualSTATE graphical development environments, IAR compilers and cash for additional equipment. Total sponsorship is worth around £15,000

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Tamworth, Staffs. October 1st 2009. McObject, whose eXtremeDB embedded database systems are distributed in the UK by Phaedrus Systems, has announced two major design wins in the military and aerospace area. BAE Systems is using McObject’s eXtremeDB™ as part of an avionics upgrade for the Panavia Tornado GR4 multi-role combat jet and leading Turkish defence contractor STM Defence Technologies Engineering and Trade is using the eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) embedded database within a new Tank Command and Control Information System (TCCIS).

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McObject®, developer of the eXtremeDB™ and Perst™ embedded database management systems (DBMSs), announced an alliance with UK-based Phaedrus Systems Limited in which Phaedrus will resell and provide services surrounding McObject’s technology. The partnership specifically targets safety-critical systems, where both companies bring extensive track records, expertise and compelling product offerings.

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