Tri-Pacific, I-Logix Team to Provide Quality of Service Offering for Embedded/Real-Time Systems
 
Tri-Pacific Software's RapidRMA and I-Logix' Rhapsody Application Development Platform Combine to Offer Unprecedented Schedulability Solution for UML-based Embedded and Real-Time Systems.

Alameda, California, September 06, 2001. Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. (www.tripac.com) and I-Logix Inc. (www.ilogix.com) today announced the release of RapidRMA for Rhapsody® a version of the industry leading RMA timing and schedulability analysis software integrated with I-Logix' Rhapsody® application development platform. The Unified Modeling Language™ (UML)-based product enables embedded and real-time developers to address schedulability and QoS requirements and to identify timing problems in embedded and real-time systems from the design phase through deployment.

RapidRMA for Rhapsody was developed to provide software engineers with a complete tool for the design of real-time embedded applications by seamlessly combining Rhapsody's unique UML-based Model/Code Associativity with the formal analysis of RapidRMA. Software designers utilizing Rhapsody, now have the ability to ensure that all operations and functionality in their application will occur in a predictable period of time, and provide its service in a timely manner — with respect to the delivery of service provided by other functions of the system and the system as a whole.

The seamless integration of RapidRMA with Rhapsody provides developers with an intuitive user interface for building and analyzing real-time embedded architectures. Using RapidRMA for Rhapsody, a developer can annotate Sequence Diagrams in the UML model through stereotypes, with information such as period, deadline, and amount of work. RapidRMA collects this information and synthesizes a timing model of the application on which it conducts timing and schedulability analysis. The results of this analysis are returned to Rhapsody, and problems in the architecture relating to blocking, latency, resource contention, and schedulability are identified for the developer. The integration of RapidRMA with Rhapsody also identifies to the developer possible alternatives for eliminating the causes of the identified problems.

”RapidRMA for Rhapsody meets the demand of developers who have response-time concerns in a completely unprecedented way,“ said Jay Abbasi, TPSI's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. ”The ability to apply RMA within the Rhapsody environment, in which the model and the code are two integral views of the same design, enables developers of embedded real-time systems to be assured that the analysis is applicable to both the UML model and the resulting code. Changes made at the code level are automatically incorporated back into the model and the analysis can be re-run. There is no other way to ensure that the analysis is applicable to both the model and the code.“

As the design is implemented, the analysis can also be re-run using timing characteristics of the final code running on the target hardware. Getting schedulability of the system correct up front prevents costly delays at unit testing, when timing issues are normally encountered, and when the issues are most costly, in terms of time and money, to correct.

”The benefits to Rhapsody users are dramatic,“ said Neeraj Chandra, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development at I-Logix Inc. ”The model is the code — the code is the model. This approach has now been extended to include RMA. Integrating the rigorous approach of timing and schedulability analysis into Rhapsody's UML-based development process allows for critical timing issues to be identified and resolved early and ensures that the solutions are carried through into the implementation.“

Product Availability

RapidRMA for Rhapsody is currently shipping and available through Tri-Pacific Software. For more information contact I-Logix, Inc. at (978) 682-2100, on the web at www.ilogix.com, or via email at sales@ilogix.com or contact sales representatives from Tri-Pacific Software at (510) 814-1770, on the web at www.tripac.com, or via email at sales@tripac.com.

About I-Logix Inc.

Founded in 1987, I-Logix is a venture-backed software company that provides enterprise solutions for real-time embedded applications development in the growing pervasive computing market. I-Logix' solutions significantly compress software development cycles while improving product quality. These products allow engineers to graphically model the behavior and functionality of their embedded systems, analyze and validate the system and automatically generate production quality code in a variety of languages. I-Logix uniquely integrates and associates the entire design flow from concept to code across an enterprise using both conventional and collaborative Web-enabled technology.

I-Logix is a member of the Object Management Group (OMG), the Bluetooth SIG, the International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE), a founding member of the Embedded Linux Consortium and a co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). I-Logix is backed by Phillips Ventures BV, Needham Capital Partners, ABS Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Gilde Investments, One Liberty Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in Andover, Mass., and has sales offices and distributors throughout the USA, Europe and the Far East. I-Logix can be found on the Internet at http://www.ilogix.com.

About Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.

Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. “Making Real-Time A Reality™” is the premier provider of real-time scheduling solutions to the software industry. TPSI fulfills the needs of real-time embedded systems developers in a variety of applications including: automotive control, avionics, defense electronics, medical devices, network, wireless and satellite communications, manufacturing, real-time CORBA and others. For more information about Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. and its suite of real-time tools, please visit the TPSI website at www.tripac.com.

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