DDC-I Announces Availability of SCORE Integrated Development Environment for TMS320C40 DSP

Provides seamless upward migration path from Ada 83 to mixed Ada 95/Embedded C++ for legacy C40 code

Phoenix, AZ. December 4, 2006. DDC-I, a leading supplier of development tools for safety-critical applications, today announced the availability of its SCORE® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Texas Instrument's TMS320C40. The SCORE IDE makes it easy for C40 developers to take existing Ada 83 programs developed for the C40, upgrade them using a mixture of Ada 95 and Embedded C++, and deploy them on a royalty-free Ada 95 run-time system. The SCORE IDE also makes it easy for C40 developers to migrate their code to other processors such as the PowerPC and X86, with the unique ability to debug multiple targets and languages at the same time.

"There has been a lot of Ada 83 code developed for the C40, particularly in defense applications," said Bob Morris, president and CEO of DDC-I. "SCORE provides a modern, best-in-class mixed language development environment that makes it easy for C40 developers to upgrade their Ada 83 code and take advantage of the latest Ada 95 and Embedded C++ technology. SCORE also makes it easy for developers to migrate existing C40 code to new processors."

To support the C40, DDC-I has developed a new C40 compiler, code generator, and disassembler. The SCORE IDE provides full JTAG multiprocessor debugging for the C40, including trace and the ability to monitor all registers. SCORE also provides a PC-based C40 instruction set simulator.

SCORE® is a mixed-language, object-oriented IDE for developing and deploying safety-critical applications. SCORE provides optimizing compilers for Ada, C, Embedded C ++, and Fortran77, all of which pass the applicable ACATS, PlumHall, Perennial, and FCVS compiler validation suites.

The SCORE® IDE features an intuitive GUI with industry leading features such as a color-coded source editor, project management support, and automated build/make utilities. SCORE's mixed-language, multi-window, symbolic debugger recognizes C/EC++, Ada and Fortran syntax and expressions, and can view objects, expressions, call chains, execution traces, interspersed machine code, machine registers, and program stacks. The debugger supports full Ada-level debugging, including constraints, attributes, tasking, exceptions, break-on-exception and break-on-tasking events. The debugger is non intrusive, can debug at the source or machine level, and can be enabled without changing the generated code.

SCORE provides versatile run-time target options, including a bare run-time system certifiable to Level A of the FCC DO-178B standard, and an enhanced bare run-time system for simulated and emulated environments.

About DDC-I, Inc.
DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on safety-critical applications. DDC-I's customer base is an impressive "who's who" in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers compilers, integrated development environments and run-time systems for C, Embedded C++, Ada, JOVIAL and FORTRAN application development.

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