Lauterbach GmbH Revenue and Competitors

Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, and Dave, who manufactures embedded boards using PPC and ARM processors, have agreed a mutual strategic partnership. This partnership will offer coordinated board and debugging solutions to the embedded market. Customers will have access to prebuilt configurations containing the appropriate board and debugger setup files. To simplify the startup of your own software development, example programs and applications are included. The partnership will guarantee the mutual compatibility of the TRACE32 tools from Lauterbach with the PPChameleon board and other boards from DAVE. The TRACE32 debug system communicates with the board via the JTAG connector. Whenever possible the board also has the trace port connector which, if used with the TRACE32 real-time trace module, provides detailed program flow and analysis capability. To provide immediate control of the board DAVE deliver the boards with a boot manager already programmed into the Flash memory and detailed documentation. The debugger software includes prebuilt setup scripts to initialize the board for a debug session minimizing any startup problems. The prebuilt example applications provide a real "plug-and-play" capability, allowing quick access to the main features of the debugger and the board. For a quick start route for complex applications, DAVE provides board support packages (BSPs) for Embedded Linux for PPC, and Linux, uClinux and eCos for ARM families. This saves the time and cost of your own BSP development. In the debug tools Lauterbach includes a sophisticated awareness for Linux, uClinux and eCos as well as many other RTOS types. The awareness provides visibility into the operating system objects (e.g. processes and threads) and several performance measurements. The TRACE32 debugger follows the MMU operation and allows simultaneous debugging of several processes, the drivers and the libraries. Prebuilt example applications are available for these systems. This level of integration between DAVE and Lauterbach has been achieved by a permanent transfer of knowledge between the two companies. This means that the customer can obtain support from either Lauterbach or DAVE.