July 2011, Northwich, Cheshire, Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) announced today the signing of a Distribution Agreement with Ashling Microsystems Ltd, an Irish embedded microprocessor debug and development tools company, to distribute their products in the UK.
Ashling makes JTAG Debug Probes, Emulators, Source Debuggers, Software Quality Assurance tools and Smart Card Development Systems for Embedded 32-bit Microprocessor developers.
Processors supported include ARC, ARM, ATMEL, Freescale, MIPS, NXP and ST Microsystems. Products include the Opella range of debug probes, Vitra, networked emulators with Trace and PathFinder Source Level debugger software.
PathFinder is the user Interface for all Ashling Emulator and Simulator products, including the Ashling Vitra, Genia, Opella and Ultra Emulators. PathFinder supports a wide range of 8, 16, and 32-bit processor architectures. The highly modular PathFinder debugger can be easily configured to support different targets including Emulators, Evaluation Boards, On-chip Debug Interfaces and Instruction-Set Simulation Models. In addition, PathFinder supports simultaneous debugging of both Multi-core systems (Systems on Chip) and Co-processors.
PathFinder’s user-interface utilizes the Windows 9x/2000/Me/NT/XP look-and-feel, to reduce the debugger learning curve and increase user friendliness, while maintaining a consistent style between the debugger and other WindowsTM applications. In-Circuit Emulation, Source-level Debug, Simulation, Performance Analysis and Code Coverage are all controlled by PathFinder, thus providing a true integrated view of the embedded development domain.
Richard White, Managing Director of KCL said “Ashling is the perfect partner for us as we can bring our extensive experience and knowledge supporting DSP developers over many years to a wider range of developers using many different microprocessors.”
Ashling Microsystems, has recently announced a new range of tools for NXP SmartCard SmartMX (P5) and SmartMX2 (P60) families. Developed in close co-operation with NXP, the tools include the Ashling SmartICE hardware emulator, Ashling PathFinder source-level debugger and Keil uVision4 plug-in driver.
Ashling provides a range of tools designed to allow debugging, program-execution analysis, optimisation and validation of applications running on NXP Contact and Contactless SmartCard SmartMX (P5) and SmartMX2 (P60) families. The tools includes:
- SmartICE hardware emulator (available in three options)
- PathFinder ‘C’ and Assembly source-level debugger
- SmartICE Keil uVision4 driver plug-in (allows you to use SmartICE from within the Keil environment)
About Ashling Microsystems Ltd
Ashling Microsystems (www.ashling.com) is an international Embedded Software Development Tools company. Ashling is a subsidiary of the NeST Group, a broad based technology provider operating in the areas of software development, electronics design and manufacturing, optronics and fiber optics, broadband and RF solutions and power systems and magnetics. Through its close cooperation with leading semiconductor vendors, Ashling is a world leader in the Embedded Software Development Tools market. Ashling has development centres in Limerick, Ireland and Trivandrum, India and sales and support representatives worldwide.
About Kane Computing
KCL (www.kanecomputing.co.uk) has been providing Image Processing, DSP and high performance computing products for use in industry, education and research since 1987 and is a Texas Instruments Third Party Partner specialising in consultancy and advice on TI development tools/platforms and image processing applications. KCL have extensive knowledge and experience of providing video compression solutions for many industries particularly for digital video security and high quality broadcast applications. KCL has a policy of continual improvement and operates its business in accordance with the requirements of ISO9001:2000
