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Blunk Announces $5K RTOS Bundle for Altera NEEK

San Jose, CA (May 30, 2012) Today Blunk announces support for Altera’s Nios® II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK). Blunk’s $5K per seat CrossStep Subscription now includes a Nios II port of TargetOS, a board support package for the NEEK board, and host-development tools.

The subscription includes CrossStep, Blunk’s IDE for embedded development that includes an integrated project builder and kernel-aware source code debugger with support for TargetMon™, Blunk’s debug-over-Ethernet target monitor, and USBBlaster, Altera’s on-chip debug interface. TargetMon provides extremely fast download times and debugger responsiveness. It supports task level debugging of code, and allows placing breakpoints in, and stepping through, interrupt service routines.

Kernel-awareness is provided for both on-chip and debug monitor connections and includes: i) display of kernel objects, including tasks, semaphores, queues, ii) a “software logic analyzer” view of runtime history, including context switches, interrupts and service calls, and iii) task scoping of the source code display, to show the current execution point of each task.

The CrossStep Subscription is an integrated solution that provides everything needed to develop products. It is licensed as a per-seat annual subscription, and includes both the Windows-hosted development tools and the embedded source code components. The total cost is $5K per seat. There are no restrictions on releasing derived executable code. Redistribution of the source code is prohibited.

About Blunk Microsystems

Blunk Microsystems has provided high-performance embedded software for 32-bit processors since 1995. Products include an RTOS, advanced embedded file systems, IPv4 and IPv6 certified TCP/IP stacks, embedded graphics/windowing library, USB stack, embedded web server, high-level source debugger, and integrated GNU-based development environment.

Contact:

Blunk Microsystems, LLC
3626 Fair Oaks Blvd. Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95864
T: +1 (408) 323-1758
E: pr@blunkmicro.com

CrossStep, TargetOS, TargetTCP, TargetWeb, TargetFFS, and TargetMon are trademarks of Blunk Microsystems, LLC. CYCLONE and NIOS are registered trademarks of Altera Corporation. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective holders.