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Slash the cost and time of your embedded software development
Slash the cost and time of your embedded software development
Engineers are expected to deliver products in a shorter time, at less cost, but with all the extra bells and whistles that customers demand. Competition is rife and coming from all corners of the globe. The product has to launch on time and oh yes, the features spec may change at the 11th hour. So what's new?
You’ve usually managed to increase performance whilst reducing power consumption and in the process have developed yet more code to communicate wirelessly, to be more secure and to run more applications. What’s new is that today you have to do it with even less development budget and time and possibly less resource. According to estimates from leading Industry analysts more than half of embedded products are launched late to market because of the software requirements:
Ismosys partner Proven Software Solutions (PSS) has an answer to this dilemma. PSS provides working source code which has been tested, debugged and already deployed in a product. The code PSS supplies enables embedded product developers to integrate working functions at the middle layer and so free up in-house resource to focus on developing differentiating features at the application layer, thereby reducing cost, risk and time-to-market. Visit http://www.ismosys.com/technology_centre/software_services/ to see what’s currently available.
If the source code or functions that you need are not listed we will endeavor to find it for you. Simply click on the Software Wanted link and tell us what you need by completing the online form, and then leave the rest to us.Or, to keep things really simple, click on the email link here and tell us what you’re interested in nigel@ismosys.com
Continually in development
The PSS portfolio of working software IP is continually in development: The company currently offers simple drivers like I2C and LCD display drivers through to the latest and more complex SD/MMC memory card drivers and audio, video and image codecs. It also lists File Systems such as FAT32 and more esoteric software functions such as a CPU Task scheduler which co-ordinates activity between several ‘threads’ and a Real-Time Clock. The latter provides a set of interlinked functions to account for time and the passage of time through seconds to years, recorded through on board timers.
The FAT32 File System, which is required by all embedded products if they need to manage files between storage media such as SD and CF cards is a complex piece of code to develop. It took the original developer no less than five man-months to develop but the task of retuning the source code for a third-party platform is a simple one and the potential savings it offers to the customer are huge! Further, the PSS FAT32 system has additional features such as encryption, providing the user with the added security against (for example) illegal copying of data stored on a memory card.
Code available from PSS can be seen and, in many cases downloaded directly from http://www.ismosys.com/technology_centre/software_services/
