Kyoto Microcomputer announced the prototype of PARTNER for Symbian OS, an integrated professional debugger for Symbian OS developers.
For immediate release:
Kyoto, Japan - June 16, 2005:
Embedded Linux debugger, T-Engine debugger and JTAG ICE specialist Kyoto Microcomputer (KMC) today announced to show the prototype of "PARTNER for Symbian OS" which supports debugging of Symbian OS projects using PARTNER-Jet at Symbian Summit Tokyo.
The PARTNER for Symbian OS is a new debugging system for professionals who develop mobile phone based on Symbian OS. Developers can use KMC's flagship JTAG-ICE "PARTNER-Jet" without changing preferred editors and compilers. The debugging of kernel, device drivers, and applications can be performed with the same operation without concerning execution mode. The PARTNER for Symbian OS also has a powerful profiling feature.
Syoichi Yamamoto, president and CEO of KMC, said "As we announced on April 25, we became a Platinum Partner of Symbian and we started a project to support Symbian OS. We already developed a prototype version of new debugging system and we'll show you demonstrations at Symbian Summit Tokyo on June 21, 2005. The PARTNER for Symbian OS has several features such as new and powerful profiler which the other debuggers have never had and simultaneous debugging of kernel, device drivers, and applications using our high-speed JTAG-ICE PARTNER-Jet. We'll also apply our own technologies to PARTNER for Symbian OS such as multi-core support."
Features of PARTNER for Symbian OS
High-speed:
Using our flagship high-speed JTAG-ICE "PARTNER-Jet", the PARTNER for Symbian OS provides a super fast debug environment for development projects on Symbian OS. Optional emulation memory allows downloading of kernel code in a flash, saving time to write to FLASH memory.
Profiler:
The PARTNER for Symbian OS measures consumption time in each function and profiles performance of all system routines, device drivers, and applications without completed hardware settings. You can easily find bottleneck routines and improve them to gain speed for entire system. This profiling feature is built into the PARTNER debugger and you can profile your system by function or module basis even in debugging operation. This profiling feature will be applied to PARTNER debugger series for the other platforms such as embedded Linux.
Simultaneous debugging in each execution modes:
You can debug kernel, device drivers, and applications simultaneously in each execution modes using PARTNER-Jet. The PARTNER automatically resolves execution addresses relocation assigned by rombuild and translates debugging information to appropriate debug action. For example, you can set a new break point in kernel code while you are stepping through an application and the kernel code will stop at specified break point.
View process and task information:
You can see task information when the target system is stopped, allowing you easily to find dependencies among tasks and execution mode of tasks.
User interfaces:
The PARTNER for Symbian OS has two user interfaces and you can choose your favorite way -- graphical user interface or command-line interface. You can use macros and history or whatever else for your command-line environment to improve efficiency of debugging.
Contact us for product release schedule and how to get pre-release version.
Target OS:Symbian OS 8.1b EKA2
Target CPU:ARM
Host machine:Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
About PARTNER-Jet:
The PARTNER-Jet is KMC's flagship JTAG ICE which unleashes the power of JTAG, offering several features including huge trace memory, multi-core CPU support, support for embedded operation systems such as Linux, virtual communication through JTAG (VLINK technology), USB 2.0 support, Ethernet (100BASE-TX) support, interface for optional equipment. The PARTNER-Jet supports several CPUs by replacing debugger software PARTNER (models 20 and 30 only). The PARTNER for Symbian OS is a KMC's debugger software which uses KMC's PARTNER-Jet JTAG ICE.
About Symbian Ltd.
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and / or in development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, LG, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Sharp, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2004, over 14 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and more than 25 million have been sold to date. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe, Israel, Australia and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).
Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd. (KMC)
Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd. (KMC), founded in 1985, is the market leader in high-speed JTAG-ICE, high-performance ROM in-circuit emulator, and processor board products in Japan. We are also specialized in software development to offer better development environment providing our flagship debugger "PARTNER". We have almost twenty years of experience in designing and supplying high-performance development tools for embedded microcontrollers in the industrial control, communications, computer, and consumer electronic industries. We will strive to be the premier supplier of advanced hardware and software debugging tools by continuing to provide innovative debugging solutions.
Our flagship products PARTNER-Jet (released November 2003) and PARTNER-JetM (released August 2004) are advanced JTAG ICEs which offers powerful debug features for the latest embedded development such as Linux-based products. The PARTNER-JetM supports high-speed trace clock (over 200MHz) and ultra fast downloading speed (over 10MBytes/Sec) and comes with a high-speed emulation memory unit.
Contacts:
KMC, the KMC logo, PARTNER, PARTNER-Jet, PARTNER-JetM, exeGCC, JTAG-Ether, and Eclipse for PARTNER Cross DevKit are trademarks of Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd. Product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Product specifications are subject to change without notice. This material is provided for informational purposes only; KMC assumes no liability related to its use.
