Costa Mesa, California, March 17, 2010 – Micro Digital Inc. is pleased to announce that the SMX® RTOS and middleware now offer out-of-the-box support for four major Cortex-M3 families: Texas Instruments (Luminary Micro) Stellaris LM3Sxxxx, STMicro STM32, Atmel AT91SAM3U, and NXP LPC17xx. Included are BSP code, drivers for on-chip Ethernet and USB controllers, and a floating point library for the Thumb-2 instruction set. Free evaluation kits and demos are available to download at www.smxrtos.com/eval and www.smxrtos.com/demo.

“The ARM-M architecture, upon which Cortex-M processors are based, is quite different from traditional ARM. Unlike many prevalent architectures, it was designed for embedded systems, not brought over from the desktop world. When initially reading about it, I was pleased to see many features specifically for embedded systems,” says David Moore, Director of Development. “Its unusual task switching mechanism has allowed us to save significant RAM for task stacks, which is a major user of RAM in a multitasking system. Also, the interrupt controller, tick timer, and other features are part of the core, making them standard across processors from different vendors and they have been designed well,” he added.

SMX RTOS, smxNS™ TCP/IP stack, smxUSBH™ USB host stack, smxUSBD™ USB device stack, smx flash file systems, and GoFast® IEEE 754 floating point library (single and double precision) all run out-of-the-box on these Cortex-M3 processors. SMX software has been proven to give high performance with small code and RAM footprints. The GoFast library, for example, improves the calculation speed of complex floating point functions by as much as ten times when it runs on the Thumb-2 (Cortex) instruction set. SMX also features extensive error checking and error management that help to speed products to market.

SMX for Cortex-M3 is available immediately for purchase and includes full source code, 90 days of technical support, and no per-seat charges. All of Micro Digital’s software is royalty free and sold with a 30-day money back guarantee.

About Micro Digital

Micro Digital, Inc. has been in the embedded systems business for 35 years and has been producing and selling embedded software products for over 20 years. The company is dedicated to providing quality products and support for embedded systems at moderate prices. Micro Digital, Inc. may be contacted at 800-366-2491, email: sales@smxrtos.com.

QUEBEC CITY, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFO) (NASDAQ: TSX:) (NASDAQ:EXF) announced today the addition of optical transport network (OTN) testing capabilities on its FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules. These include OTU4 (111.81 Gbit/s) and OTU3 (43.018 Gbit/s) full-line-rate testing, as well as framing and forward error correction (FEC) testing as per ITU-T G.709, enabling breakthrough-level qualification of 100G Ethernet transmission over OTN. These added capabilities are available through a software option for existing 85100G Packet Blazer modules, requiring no additional hardware and maximizing customers’ return on investment. EXFO will demonstrate these capabilities at the upcoming OFC event (booth 1134, March 23-25).

In today’s competitive market, carriers and network operators strive to deliver the bandwidth required for residential, mobile and enterprise services-a challenge they must meet while reducing costs and improving efficiency. To achieve this increased link capacity, they have chosen to upgrade to 100G Ethernet and transport the services across optical transport networks, which represents a balanced solution for simplified network operations and reduced capital and operational expenses.

With that in mind, EXFO made a decision to stand by its major 100G Ethernet customers-FPGA designers, CFP optical module manufacturers, network element manufacturers, carriers-and offer them the enhanced capabilities they need to meet their test challenges and lead the market in their domains. Today, EXFO is the first test and measurement provider to have conducted OTU4 lab trials with multiple industry leaders.

In addition to the newly launched OTN testing capabilities, EXFO’s FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer modules support various 40GE/100GE unique and advanced 802.3ba compliance test functions, including signal conditioning with pre-emphasis and receiver-equalization control capability, MDIO advanced mode, PCS mapping and skew, as well as layer-2 and layer-3 traffic generation with full statistics. From a technology lifecycle standpoint, EXFO’s end-to-end 100G Ethernet portfolio covers testing requirements from early system development through to field deployment.

“Over the past few years, EXFO has been a leading provider of next-generation testing solutions-including OTN testing-and the extension of our OTN test capabilities to 100G Ethernet carries on that trend,” said Etienne Gagnon, EXFO’s Vice-President of Product Management and Marketing. “Now more than ever, we are determined to maintain our leadership and align our development efforts with 100G Ethernet technology advances and market requirements.”

For more information about the FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules, please visit www.EXFO.com.

About EXFO

EXFO is a leading provider of next-generation test and service assurance solutions for wireless and wireline network operators and equipment manufacturers in the global telecommunications industry. The Telecom Division, which accounts for more than 90% of the company’s revenues, offers core-to-edge solutions that assess the performance and reliability of converged, IP fixed and mobile networks. Key technologies supported include 3G, 4G/LTE, IMS, Ethernet, OTN, xDSL, and various optical technologies accounting for an estimated 33% of the portable fiber-optic test market. The Life Sciences and Industrial Division provides solutions in medical device and opto-electronics assembly, fluorescence microscopy and other life science sectors. EXFO has a staff of approximately 1,600 people in 25 countries, supporting more than 2000 customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.EXFO.com.