Model-driven embedded development goes graphical: News from I-Logix Europe

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Statemate 4.0 is billed as the industry's most comprehensive model-driven development (MDD) tool for embedded systems. Statemate's redesigned graphical user interface (GUI) offers substantial performance and workflow improvements by combining many of the tool's popular views into a single integrated development environment (IDE) designed to improve productivity. Statemate's single IDE increases readability, navigation, and streamlines the development process by reducing model creation and modification times by allowing more efficient data access, multi-element manipulation, and minimising mouse click rates.

In addition to the new GUI, Statemate now offers an improved documentation engine allowing for easier access to the comprehensive database of Statemate information contained within the documentation repository.

Statemate 4.0 also incorporates flowcharts as part of its graphical language, adding a powerful behavioural view, which can also be simulated.

Production quality C code, such as that used in automotive ECUs or other space restrictive 8/16bit applications can be automatically generated directly from the graphical specification using the Statemate MicroC Code Generator, further streamlining the model-based design process into a single integrated environment.

Other new features include support for 64-character naming and exact case support to allow more extensible naming of elements, updated intelligent help support engine to allow the user to fix model issues more quickly, and an intelligent model checker featuring user-selectable regions for error testing.

Statemate 4.0 features tighter integration and updated support for more compilers, configuration management, and requirements management tools.

'We are very excited about the investment in usability improvements to Statemate and feel that this single integrated design environment, and the enhanced integration with third party tools provides a systems development platform with no peers', said Neeraj Chandra, I-Logix Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development.

'Statemate 4.0's enhanced GUI, unique IDE and MicroC code generator make it the single most comprehensive and advanced embedded systems engineering tool on the market'.

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