Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Phoenix Technologies | Subject: Phoenix Core Managed Environment
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 February 2003
PC environment redefined
for more security
The Phoenix Core Managed Environment heralds a new standard for the way essential applications and device-critical services can be built into digital products
The Phoenix Core Managed Environment, or cME, heralds a new standard for the way essential applications and device-critical services can be built into digital products, making them always protected and always accessible. Phoenix cME dramatically improves OEMs' and system builders' opportunity to enhance the user experience with computer systems and other digital products by providing new levels of reliability, security and simplicity, all built in at the core of the device.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 February 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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'Phoenix cME addresses the needs of increasingly connected and digitally dependent users', said Albert E Sisto, Chairman, President and CEO of Phoenix.
'Now they can access diagnostics and self-healing capabilities, Internet access, and remote desktop builds, even after a major system malfunction.
In conjunction with our industry partners, Phoenix is changing the user experience at its very core while allowing enterprise systems providers to help reduce support costs for their customers and to deliver brand-differentiated products across a wide variety of platforms'.
Phoenix cME is a standards-based set of enabling technologies and applications built into the foundation of PCs and other digital products.
Residing both within the system firmware and within a protected area of the hard drive, these technologies and applications are always available and always secure because they do not depend on the operating system or user action.
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.NET port showcases microcontroller support
The .NET Micro Framework expands Microsoft's embedded offerings into a new market of devices targeting low-cost 32 bit-applications with low memory density requirements and low power consumption
RTOS supports new microcontrollers
ThreadX is Express Logic's small, fast, royalty-free RTOS for demanding real-time applications
Network card platform gains real-time support
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In the PC and server environments, Phoenix cME enables the creation and management of a secure 'host protected area' (HPA) of the hard drive, where Phoenix cME certified applications reside - the Phoenix FirstWare product family.
These applications help diagnose and recover PCs if the operating system malfunctions.
Phoenix cME provides the most secure HPA on the market, and for the first time, it enables third-party developers to write their own applications for storage in this tamper-proof area.
In information appliances and consumer electronic devices, such as set-top boxes and hand-held devices, Phoenix cME provides the same secure environment - built into the device - for content delivery from the Internet.
Similar to the PC model, Phoenix cME allows applications to be integrated into the digital product, providing additional services.
Phoenix also provides cME certified applications through the FirstView Connect product family, which includes an Internet browser and email application.
Phoenix cME addresses requirements of original equipment and design manufacturers (OEMs and ODMs), independent software developers (ISVs), and system builders seeking to reduce IT costs, differentiate products, improve satisfaction, and stimulate demand.
A new study of system builders to be released soon by the US National Association of System Builders (NASBA) indicates that some of the most important areas of added value to their customers include security, reliability, and service.
These are the key issues addressed by Phoenix cME.
Phoenix cME is delivered through four offerings specific for each platform: Phoenix cME PC Edition; Phoenix cME Server Edition; Phoenix cME Information Appliance Edition; and Phoenix cME Embedded Edition.
Each of these Phoenix cME editions includes a platform-specific portfolio of application software, BIOS, tools and APIs.
Phoenix customers, including OEMs, ODMs, and system builders, can select those technologies in each platform that best enable them to differentiate their products and provide additional value to their customers.
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