January 7, 1998

KADAK's AMX RTOS Supports ARM Family of Processors

AMX for ARM Real-Time Kernel Strengthens Position of ARM7, ARM7TDMI and StrongARM for Embedded Applications

VANCOUVER, CANADA -- January 7, 1998 -- KADAK Products Ltd. today announced the availability of its AMX Real-Time Multitasking Kernel (RTOS) targeted for the ARM family of processors from Advanced RISC Machines and its partners.

Supporting the ARM, Thumb and StrongARM architectures, AMX for ARM is ready for use on the ARM Development Board equipped with an ARM7TDMI core processor and on the StrongARM EBSA-285 Evaluation Board equipped with an SA-110 StrongARM processor.

AMX is a fast, full featured, compact, ROMable real-time kernel. Its preemptive, priority based task scheduler includes timing support for delays, timeouts and periodic events. Its modular architecture provides managers for semaphores, resource allocation, event synchronization, mailboxes, message exchanges, and fixed and/or dynamic memory allocation.

KADAK's interactive AMX Configuration Builder eases system construction. Developers can use ARM's Software Development Toolkit operating under Windows 95 or NT to create and test their AMX for ARM application. KADAK supports the ARM, Thumb and StrongARM C compilers, assembler, and linker/locator included in the kit.

The ARMulator, an ARM core simulator, and the ARM Debugger for Windows can be used, together with KADAK's KwikLook Fault Finder, for application testing. KwikLook provides fingertip access to everything controlled by AMX and its managers.

AMX for ARM is offered with a royalty free site license which includes source code and technical support.