Design win for WRS TradeWind partner ANT Ltd. with STMicroelectronics; and win(s) with Enea OSE Systems
James,
Both ANT Ltd. and STMicroelectronics are WRS TradeWind partners based in Europe. Enea OSE Systems is also based in Europe.
From your European vantage point, could you give us some perspective on these two February announcements ? STM is easy to research, but who are ANT Ltd and Enea OSE Systems and how well do they seem to be doing ??
--alan
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ANT Fresco browser ported to STMicroelectronics' OMEGA family reference
design hardware and STAPI software
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Cost effective product development made quicker and easier with
demonstration port
Cambridge, 13 February 2001: ANT Limited, a leading provider of embedded
communication appliance software for consumer electronics, Internet
appliances and eCommerce products, has announced that its Fresco® browser
has been ported to STMicroelectronics' OMEGA STi551x family evaluation
platform and Application Programming Interface (STAPI) software. This design
for set top boxes joins ANT's existing library of demonstration platform
designs developed in partnership with RTOS and processor vendors for quick
and cost effective OEM product development. The port was completed in just
four weeks.
"ANT Fresco is the browser of choice for our digital consumer applications,"
said Peter Hulme, marketing manager for start-ups and new IP at
STMicroelectronics. "This port will allow ST to offer a fully functional
browser solution to customers purchasing the STi551x family of evaluation
platforms for use with the STAPI driver software layer, increasing their
functionality and content. It will also give customers the option of
licensing Fresco for deployment on all Internet devices using the ST
technology."
ST's development platforms for digital consumer applications use the OMEGA
family of digital decoders and include drivers based on STAPI, which also
supports middleware such as OpenTV's EN2. ANT licensed STAPI to develop the
port of Fresco and enable ST to provide a demonstration design that
incorporates a world class browser. As a result of this port, Fresco will be
made available as an object-code plug-in to all STAPI licensees, whilst
Fresco source code may be licensed direct from ANT.
"This development, and the fact it was completed in just one month, is yet
another example of ANT Fresco's high portability and flexibility," said John
Cherry, VP of sales and marketing at ANT. "We're very pleased to be working
with ST and to have the opportunity to showcase our browser on its real-time
operating system and software. By partnering with ST, we are able to offer
yet another browser solution to help OEMs get their product to market in a
much shorter time."
ANT Fresco is a browser that enables freedom to leverage brand identity. It
has a small memory footprint, is a platform-independent and
standards-compliant browser enabling OEMs to quickly and easily design a
branded interface for their Internet appliances. The browser is based on a
patent pending three layer architecture, consisting of the ANT Portability
Environment (APE), which manages the interface to the hardware platform; the
core standards-compliant browser code; and a graphical front end, which
allows the design of a custom user interface and functionality. For this new
reference design, APE is ported to STAPI which maps onto ST's real-time
operating system, called ST-lite, and its ST5512 CPU, although it is
portable to any of ST's 551x series without any modifications.
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Enea OSE Systems Increases Wireless Support with ANT Limited's Internet
Browser and Email Products
San Jose, CA - February 13, 2001: Enea OSE Systems has selected ANT
Limited's Fresco® Browser and SimplEmailTM as the browser and email client
of choice to integrate with the OSETM realtime operating system (RTOS)
enabling highly functional, customizable browsing and messaging capabilities
ideally suited for Wireless terminals.
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Both the Fresco Browser and SimplEmail will run on top of OSE, enabling Enea
OSE Systems' customers to offer email and Web browsing capabilities to their
consumers on an OSE-based portable device. Fresco and SimplEmail employ a
high-performance, highly portable and customizable architecture designed to
meet the critical needs of Internet appliances and other networked products,
such as set top boxes, PDAs, mobile phones and household appliances.
The ANT Fresco Browser is platform independent and standards compliant,
allowing users of wireless and other devices to securely view and interact
with web content created using industry standards. ANT Fresco Browser has a
small memory footprint and is customizable, enabling the customers to
quickly and easily design a branded interface for their Internet appliances.
The OSE RTOS is designed specifically to support communications
applications, enabling the design of distributed systems with fault-tolerant
capabilities. OSE's unique message-passing architecture is the foundation
that enables true realtime behavior and high performance. Particularly
useful in wireless applications, the OSE networking products includes a
range of the latest state-of-the-art protocols and security management,
multiple 32-bit CPU and DSP architecture support for ARM, PowerPC, Texas
Instruments, Lucent and Motorola.
"By integrating our browser and email technology with OSE, Enea OSE Systems
can enable its customers to develop and ship their wireless devices with
lower engineering costs and a time-to-market advantage," said Neil Gardner,
product marketing manager, ANT Limited.
The OSE integration with ANT products is in keeping with Enea OSE Systems'
commitment to support a vast range of communications applications that
depend on reliability and performance. "ANT's technology in combination with
the OSE RTOS means that we now can offer a platform for Wireless devices,
further enhancing the options we offer design engineers who are building
tomorrow's complex and versatile wireless applications," said Eva Skoglund,
product marketing manager, Enea OSE Systems. |
