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REDMOND, Wash., July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Microsystems Corp. (Nasdaq: APMC) today introduced the market's first set of software analysis and visibility tools to connect with embedded systems via widely used Mictor-38 connectors. The company's popular CodeTEST(TM) 3.0 family of tools has been enhanced to support developers using targets designed with bus access using Mictor-38 connectors. CodeTEST tracks and measures software execution and performance with an industry-leading 100-nanosecond resolution that gives developers an extremely accurate picture of their system's operation.

This announcement marks the first time that software developers whose target systems use Mictor-38 connections can now conduct software performance, memory, coverage, and trace testing and analysis on their programs. As a result, developers can generate the highly accurate real-time measurements necessary to pinpoint critical performance and quality issues. By getting the data earlier in the development process, code evolves faster and critical time-to-market schedules shorten.

CodeTEST 3.0 was introduced in April for developers and testers of high-end, high-performance embedded applications in the telecommunications and networking industries. The new tools comprise the only solution on the market that spans the entire development cycle (from boot to deployment) for all four major protected-mode real-time operating systems (RTOSs): Sun Microsystem's ChorusOS(TM); OSE Systems' OSE(TM); QNX® Neutrino®; and Wind River's VxWorks® and AE.

``The Mictor-38 probe is popular not only because it operates at high speeds, but because it requires so little of each board's real estate,'' said Steve Dearden, vice president of marketing for Applied. ``Pairing it with our own premier software analysis tools will give leading-edge developers a significant time-to-market advantage over their competitors. Now software engineers can get unprecedented access for debug, profile and test of their software applications using CodeTEST's low-intrusion tagging instrumentation technology and these readily available, high-density, high-bandwidth connections.''

The Mictor-38 probe assemblies that are now available with CodeTEST will benefit software developers who require a highly accurate, high-speed, low-intrusion data collection agent. Standard Agilent and Tektronix pin-out router images can be flash-programmed or developers can load their own non-standard, proprietary pin-out configurations. All configurations can be reprogrammed, which allows users to introduce new pin-out configurations from target-to-target for greater flexibility and repeated reuse of the same data-collection agent.

Pricing & Availability

CodeTEST 3.0 with the Mictor-38 probe is available immediately. The CodeTEST data collection agent with the Mictor-38 probe is $17,500. Full-featured systems solutions are priced at $32,500. Pricing ranges from $4,000 to $7,000 for individual performance, coverage, memory or trace modules.

About CodeTEST 3.0

CodeTEST offers software development teams much-needed gains in quality and productivity with software test and analysis methods that migrate through each stage of software development. With common file formats for native, software and hardware test and analysis, CodeTEST becomes the basis for a coherent, integrated test methodology. CodeTEST can be used throughout the embedded software lifecycle for development, debugging and testing.

About Applied Microsystems

Applied Microsystems is the leading provider of innovative technologies and software development tools that expedite complex software projects for OEM customers in the high-speed networking, games and other markets.

Applied offers sophisticated tools for software verification, application testing and debugging. Tools such as CodeTEST®, LiveCODE(TM), NetROM(TM), PowerTAP(TM), CodeTAP(TM) and SuperTAP(TM) ensure timely delivery, high quality of service and device reliability for their customers' products.

The company can be reached at P.O. Box 97002, Redmond, Wash. 98073-9702; by phone at 800-426-3925; or by e-mail at info@amc.com. Visit Applied on the Web at www.amc.com.

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CONTACT: Helen Connor of McClenahan Bruer Communications, 503-546-1000, or helen@mcbru.com, for Applied Microsystems Corporation; or Alice Gannon-McKinley of Applied Microsystems Corporation, 425-882-5233, or aliceg@amc.com.