Ready Systems Inc, Sunnyvale, California, has introduced Xpert Profiler, an application performance and execution analysis tool for real-time embedded systems. According to founder and president Jim Ready, Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written. It tracks system flow, ISR nestings, task switching and identifies bottlenecks. Design failures are displayed graphically, as are statistical tables and execution timelines. It also includes a profiling library, which stores samples of code as an application is being developed. Xpert is out now and runs on a host Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstation – support for Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000/700s will follow later this year. Ready also launched SNX, a set of network executives supporting multifarious protocols including TCP/IP, FDDI, SNMP, SLIP, ARP, Ethernet, Telnet and FTP. SNX, based on the Streams networking standard, enables developers to prioritise tasks across both target and host machines; it will ship by year-end.
