eCosCentric recommends Ashling Opella

CAMBRIDGE, UK -- November 1st, 2006 -- eCosCentric Limited,
the eCos and RedBoot experts, has added Ashlings Opella® debug
hardware to its list of recommended hardware debug products.

Paul Beskeen, Chairman & Director of Business Development at
eCosCentric said "Before recommending any debug hardware eCosCentric
thoroughly evaluates it for use with the eCosPro® Developer's
Kit. We pay close attention to its overall functionality,
robustness, quality, and integration with eCosPro's Eclipse-based
IDE and command line debuggers. The evaluation process enables
us to identify high quality hardware debug solutions and helps
to ensure positive user experiences for our customers. We
recommend the Ashling Opella and are particularly impressed
with its download and communications speed compared with
other solutions we have evaluated". For further details see
[1]http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/jtag.shtml.

John Murphy, Managing Director of Ashling Microsystems said "Ashling
and eCosCentric are members of NXP Semiconductor's Nexperia® Home
Partner Program. Customers developing products on the Nexperia
platform using the eCosPro Developer's kit will find that Opella
provides reliable, fast communication with the target".

About eCosPro

eCosPro is a stable, fully tested and supported version of the
eCos open source real-time operating system and RedBoot bootstrap
firmware. The eCosPro Developer's Kit is a distribution of eCosPro
with commercial support & advice, prebuilt eCos host tools,
compiler toolchains, full documentation, Eclipse-based integrated
development environment to streamline eCos application development
(including graphical debugger), C++ runtime (including Standard
Template Library) as well as profiling, code coverage and memory
allocation debugging tools. Third party components certified with
eCosPro include a Java virtual machine, an in-memory database,
graphical user interfaces, CAN drivers and CANopen library, and USB
2.0 compliant host, device & OTG stacks. For further details visit
[2]http://www.ecoscentric.com or contact [3]info@ecoscentric.com for
pricing and availability.

About eCosCentric

Founded in April 2002, eCosCentric is the leading provider of eCos
and RedBoot support, training, development and consulting services
worldwide. Staffed by the original eCos creators and highly
experienced embedded system and software engineers, eCosCentric
provides complete solutions consisting of run-time systems,
complementary host tools and certified third party applications.

About Opella

Opella is a powerful non-intrusive JTAG Emulator for embedded
development with a USB connection to the host PC. Opella provides
fast code download to the target system and allows control and
interrogation of all core-processor and system resources. Opella
supports run-time control including program load, run, step, halt,
hardware and software breakpoints and register/memory access.

About Ashling Microsystems

Ashling Microsystems (founded in 1982) is a privately held
international Embedded Software Development Tools company. Ashling
designs and manufactures In-Circuit Emulators, JTAG/BDM Emulators,
Smart Card development tools, Source Debuggers, Integrated
Development Environments, Development Boards and Software Quality
Assurance tools. Through its close cooperation with leading
semiconductor vendors, Ashling is now a world leader in the Embedded
Software development tools market. Ashling's R&D Centre is in
Limerick, Ireland and Ashling has sales and support representatives
worldwide. Full details of Ashling's locations and other information
are on the company's web site at [4]http://www.ashling.com.

Opella is a registered trademark of Ashling Microsystems Limited,
eCosCentric and eCosPro are registered trademarks of eCosCentric
Limited. Nexperia is a trademark of NXP Semiconductors. All
other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.