January 6, 1998

KADAK's AMX RTOS Supports StrongARM Processor Family

AMX for ARM Real-Time Kernel Strengthens Position of StrongARM for Embedded Applications

VANCOUVER, CANADA -- January 6, 1998 -- KADAK Products Ltd. today announced the availability of StrongARM support with its AMX Real-Time Multitasking Kernel (RTOS) targeted for the ARM family of processors. AMX for ARM is ready for use 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 StrongARM compiler, 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. KADAK also provides versions of AMX that work on all ARM and Thumb processors that meet the ARM v4 or ARM v4T specifications.