VIRTUAL INTERFACE PANEL ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTS RAPID PROTOTYPING AND
CUSTOM DEBUGGING INTERFACES
Moorpark, Calif. – September
20, 1996 – Signum Systems, a leading manufacturer of embedded system development
tools has released Viper™ – Virtual Interface Panel Environment for Signum
Systems’ Chameleon Debugger™. The Viper environment allows for front panel-style
user interfaces to be quickly created on the screen by dragging-and-dropping standard
controls. The controls include LED indicators, LED and LCD displays, push buttons, toggle
switches, 2-D plotters and message logs. The virtual controls can execute arbitrary
debugger commands, ranging from starting or stopping the CPU and setting breakpoints to
modifying variables in the target application. The controls can also evaluate and display
specified source-level expressions. The combination of command execution and expression
evaluation allows for arbitrary user interfaces to be rapidly prototyped and tested while
running with the users actual hardware and software. Viper can also be used to create
custom debugging interfaces for testing and service applications. Viper allows for
multiple virtual interface panels to be active simultaneously. Every interface panel can
be connected via a network to a different Chameleon Debugger session, allowing for
multiple systems to be controlled and monitored from a remote location.
Viper works with Signum’s Chameleon source-level debugger
running under Windows 95 an Windows NT. The Chameleon debugger is currently available for
the 8051 microcontroller family. It works with Signum Systems’ USP-series of
in-circuit emulators, RISM-compatible evaluation boards and embedded monitors.
The Viper is priced at $950.00.
About
Signum Systems
Founded in 1979, Signum Systems has from its inception positioned itself in the mainstream
of the embedded emulation market. Signum Systems supplies full featured in-circuit
emulators (ICE) and simulators to developers of microcontroller and DSP (Digital Signal
Processor) based systems. Its major customers include hard disk drive makers (e.g.,
Seagate, Maxtor, Ministor, Syquest, Micropolis, Conner, IBM) and microcontroller chip
manufacturers (e.g., Intel, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Zilog, Silicon
Systems).
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Viper and Chameleon Debugger are trademarks of Signum Systems Corp.
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