Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.

Mission

Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. is the premier provider of real-time scheduling solutions to the software industry. The company meets the needs of real-time and embedded systems developers for building predictable applications with demanding timing, resource and schedulability needs. Tri-Pacific offers products in a variety of real-time, safety critical and embedded systems applications including automotive control, avionics, defense electronics, wireless and satellite communications, manufacturing and others.

Tri-Pacific Software is making Real-Time a reality.

Products

• RAPID RMA (formerly PERTS, Prototyping Environment for Real-Time Systems) — is a modeling and prototyping tool. It includes CORBA mapping capabilities and interfaces to ObjecTime Developer, Enea OSE Illuminator, and Wind River's WindView tool.

• RAPID Sched — works with Real-Time CORBA to provide predictable, fixed-priority scheduling for distributed applications.

Location

The company is headquartered in Alameda, California, with support from its partners and support staff around the US and overseas. Through these partnerships and alliances, our products have local distributors around the world. See the contacts page for more information.

History

The story of Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. begins with a group of software development and design engineers who came together in Tri-Pacific Consulting Corporation. They worked with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to promote Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA), a powerful software engineering method. In 1994, working in conjunction with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, they created the PERTS product, a modeling and prototyping tool which utilizes RMA. That was followed by PERTS*Sim, a discrete event simulator.

In 1998, the group founded Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. to provide real-time embedded systems solutions to the software industry. In 1999, Tri-Pacific Software introduced its RAPID suite of tools for real-time scheduling. In this suite, PERTS and PERTS*Sim are being re-engineered to use JAVA for a GUI front-end, making the programs more versatile and platform independent. The product names have been changed: PERTS is now RAPID RMA.

Tri-Pacific Software leads the industry in RMA applications. RAPID RMA is now installed in some of the largest commercial and government systems in the world, including Boeing, Computer Sciences Corporation, The Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, TRW, Nokia, Mitre, and many others.

Management Team

Members of the management team at Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. include:

Peter Kortmann	President
Peter, with his brother Fred, co-founded Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. As a recognized industry expert in RMA development, he has lectured throughout the world on the applications of RMA and CORBA in the real-time scheduling environment. He founded Tri-Pacific Consulting Corporation in 1984 and Tri-Pacific Software, Inc., in 1998. He has a degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Potsdam.
Fred Kortmann	Chief Financial Officer
Fred, with his brother Peter, co-founded Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. Prior to joining Tri-Pacific Software, he held various financial management positions, mainly in the telecommunications field with companies such as Phone Programs, Inc., Global Telecommunications Solutions, Inc. and BBDO Advertising. He is a graduate of Pace University with a BBA in Accounting.
Mark Gerhardt	Chief Scientist
Mark Gerhardt is currently chief scientist at TPSI Inc. He has been involved for over 35 years in the conception, construction, and deployment of large and complex mission critical and high-performance software-based systems. Previous positions include software engineering laboratory deputy director at Loral Mission systems, chief scientist at ESL, Inc., and involvement in many radar, sonar, and EW products at Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, and TRW. He has been involved with the generation of the schedulability performance and timing (SPT) profile for UML as well as the current modeling and analysis of real-time embedded systems (MARTE) profile for UML being developed within the Object Management Group. He was a distinguished reviewer for the Ada95 programming language. He has also done extensive work involving Rate Monotonic Analysis and the use of schedulability tools during architecture development. He is also involved in the IEEE 1471 work for the recommended practice on how to capture architecture. Mr. Gerhardt holds a Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) from Princeton University.

For more information contact:

Tri-Pacific Sales
510-814-1770
sales@tripac.com