Waterloo, Canada — February 16, 2010 — RoweBots Research Inc. announces and releases the Unison Operating System Version 5, achieving a significant milestone in shrinking intelligent network servers and services into small and powerful microcontrollers.  A web server along with other advanced networking applications and a Linux^M  or POSIX compatible application now fit inside any device.

The Unison Operating System offers an ultra tiny embedded POSIX environment for 32 bit microcontroller (MCU) based development that is also Linux compatible.  Unison’s open system environment enables users to migrate tens of thousands of programs from larger systems to the Unison real-time operating system (RTOS) to save time and reduce development costs. More importantly, this open approach reduces time to market.

Unison supports lean product development and extends the range of processors that can run POSIX from powerful MCUs with external memory to small system on chip (SOC) MCUs.   For the first time, users can develop all embedded products  on common POSIX application programming interfaces (APIs) . This common POSIX API reduces training, eliminates rework, and facilitates software component reuse  directly reducing development time, costs and risk. 

Unison V5 offers the following enhancements:

• Web Server with CGI, Security and Authentication
• Advanced networking
• Kernel Enhancements
• FAT12/16/32 File Systems
• Flash File System support with µSD, SD and MMC
• Other I/O including Graphics and USB
• RTOS Viewer Tools
• Supports thousands of MCUs

As MPUs shrink, all of these functions and an application can run in a few cubic millimeters in a SoC.  You can put intelligent devices anywhere – in your home appliances and networks, in your clothes and jewelry, in your clean tech lighting, HVAC and power generation systems, in your car or inside your factory.  Where we place intelligent devices is only limited by people’s imagination.

Unison is helping build a simpler, friendlier and more energy efficient world.

Unison royalty free licenses are FREE for version 4 and start at $999 for version 5.  Both are immediately available.

About RoweBots

RoweBots is developing the next generation of  embedded POSIX software for  OEM applications. The company is based in Waterloo, Canada.  For more information, visitwww.rowebots.com. 

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 16, 2010 –– EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, will sponsor the 18th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2010) February 21-23 in Monterey, Calif., as part of its unEVErsity Connections Program.

Sandra Larrabee, manager of the program, will be available to discuss EVE’s program that provides schools access to its advanced verification technologies and methodologies. 

For more information on EVE and its hardware/software co-verification tools, visit:  www.eve-team.com.  Information about the unEVErsity Connections Program is available at:  university.eve-team.com.

To learn more about FPGA 2010, go to:  www.ece.wisc.edu/~kati/isfpga/.

About EVE

EVE is the worldwide leader in hardware/software co-verification solutions, including hardware description language (HDL) acceleration and extremely fast emulation, with installations at nine of the top 10 semiconductor companies.  EVE products significantly shorten the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems designs.  Its products also work in conjunction with popular Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics.  Follow EVE on Twitter at www.twitter.com/EVETEAM.  Its United States headquarters are in San Jose, Calif.  Telephone: (408) 457-3200.  Facsimile: (408) 457-3299.  Corporate headquarters are in Palaiseau, France.  Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30.  Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40.  Email:  info@eve-team.com.  Website:  www.eve-team.com.