DDC-I Announces State-of-the-Art Ada Support for Eclipse Based Wind River® Workbench Development Suite

Proven code generation with all the features and middleware of the VxWorks® RTOS

October 3, 2005 – DDC-I, a global leader in safety critical software tools for embedded applications today announced a new plug-in for the Wind River Eclipse-based Workbench development suite. This new plug-in provides multi-language support (Ada, C and Embedded C++), targeting the VxWorks RTOS on Intel 80x86 (including VxSim) and PowerPC 603 & 604 core processors.

DDC-I’s SCORE® development tools (including compiler, linker, disassembler, library management and object dumper), are seamlessly integrated into the Wind River Workbench development suite and do not open another unique window. Through the project management view of the Workbench tools, the user has the ability to compile, link and build both downloadable kernel modules, and real-time processes with mixed language code including Ada 95, C, Embedded C++, and Assembler. DDC-I’s build process for Ada files automatically determines a correct compilation order when building or compiling multiple files. SCORE® is also integrated with the Wind River debugger and enables source-level debugging of Ada 95 code, C code, and Embedded C++ code, switching seamlessly between the languages.

"This is a true integration," states Bob Morris, President and CEO at DDC-I, Inc. "No more launching one tool from another; the entire edit, build, and debug activities are all controlled from within Workbench - the industry leading, Wind River development suite."

"Industry partners like DDC-I help provide quality software tools needed for device software applications," states Rob Hoffman, Senior Director Aerospace & Defense at Wind River Systems. "We are pleased that this seamless integration is now available for our safety critical customers and look forward to working with them in the future."

SCORE® adds the following features to the Wind River Workbench development suite:

• Hierarchical setting of compilation options through property editors.
• Context sensitive actions to compile, link, build and disassemble Ada 95 source code.
• A view for detailed compiler output, also showing exactly what compilation options are set on each file as it is being compiled.
• Automated building of Ada 95 and mixed language projects - in the background.
• Selective Linking to eliminate unused code portions from each object file.
• Powerful error reporting back to the Workbench tools.

About DDC-I, Inc.

DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization. DDC-I's customer base is an impressive "who's who" in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. Tools include compiler systems and run-time systems for C, Embedded C++, Ada, JOVIAL and Fortran application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products, contact DDC-I at: 400 North Fifth Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85004; phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail sales@ddci.com or visit www.ddci.com