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American Arium Announces Support for New Intel(R) Development Platforms

Posted on: Thursday, 18 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- American Arium, an Associate Member with the Intel(R) Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers, today announced debug tool support for new Intel development platforms employing Intel(R) IXP2400 and IXP2800/IXP2850 network processors with Intel(R) XScale(TM) technology. Developers using American Arium's SourcePoint(TM) debugging software in a hardware-assisted environment will find best-of-breed debug solutions that, when coupled with the Intel development platforms, will cut months from customers' design and debug schedules.

"Hardware designers use development boards as a starting point for their own designs, and software developers use them to begin work well ahead of release of first silicon. These network processor boards incorporate the latest trends in high speed interconnect technologies and high performance processors, and offer improved reliability and manageability," Larry Traylor, Arium's CEO, said. "What we provide are the tools to debug both the hardware and software that make up the resultant prototype and, later, the actual motherboard."

Traylor's reference to tools alluded to American Arium's soon-to-be-released debug solution: SourcePoint 6.0, Arium's software debugger due out within the next few weeks, and the company's SC-1000A emulator. The company's latest offering is scheduled to include a host of new state-of-the-art features, including an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) using Visual SlickEdit(R), integrated Intel XScale technology trace, unlimited breakpoints, and multi-processor support. The LC-500, Arium's smaller, sleeker emulator designed solely for run control, is slated for release in early October.

"Having software debugging tools available for our customers coinciding with the introduction of new development platforms is key to our customers' time-to-market success," said Doug Davis, general manager, Intel Network Processor Division. "American Arium offers value to our mutual customers by providing a high-performance debug environment."

The new Intel standards-based development platforms are designed to enable simultaneous hardware and software development around the IXP2XXX network processors. The platforms support the Intel(R) IXA portability framework and offer a broad choice of I/O media, memory, and adjunct processor cards from Intel as well as from other ICA members. The development platforms employ a new form factor based on Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture(TM) (AdvancedTCA) and include a new series of PCI Industrial Manufacturers Group (PICMG) specifications targeted to requirements for the next generation of carrier-grade communications equipment.

About American Arium

American Arium, a privately held company headquartered in Tustin, CA, is a supplier of hardware and software development tools for ARM-based processors and Intel XScale, IA-32 and IA-64 processors. American Arium is an Associate Member with the Intel(R) Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solutions providers. For more information please visit http://www.intel.com/go/ica . American Arium tools are used worldwide to debug software in embedded applications, BIOS, device drivers, and OS kernels. For more information on Arium products, call (877) 508-3970 or visit http://www.arium.com/ .

Contact: American Arium, Todd Selbo, 714-731-1661, todd_selbo@arium.com .

About the Intel(R) Communications Alliance

The Intel(R) Communications Alliance is a membership-based alliance program comprised of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. Members are committed to providing a strategic supply line of standards-based solutions to the communications and embedded market segments. For more information, visit: http://www.intel.com/ .

SourcePoint is a trademark of American Arium. Intel IXP and XScale families are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. AdvancedTCA and ATCA are trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group. SlickEdit is a registered trademark of SlickEdit, Inc.

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