Art&Logic Serves Linked Embedded Devices

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(07/24/02, 07:00:46 PM EDT)

Glendale, Ca. -- The new Device Management Framework from Art & Logic, Inc., is a tool kit to help developers of embedded and small footprint iappliance systems Web-enable their applications for remote diagnostics, monitoring and upgradeability using the open source GoAhead WebServer.

The toolkit enables product developers to create HTML, Macromedia Flash, and XML-RPC based clients for their embedded products. With a clear separation between between device code and web code the framework allows firmware engineers and user interface specialists to work together using tools with which they are already familiar.

Device simulation on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X makes it easy to develop applications using traditional web development tools. User interfaces and server-side scripts can be developed before, or in parallel with, firmware and hardware.

The XML-RPC library makes it possible to create rich, dynamic user interfaces using Macromedia Flash development tools. Flash is an ideal technology for embedded devices. Flash movies are vector-based, making them smaller and faster than implementations using other plug-ins. Flash Player is extremely popular as an internet client and works consistently across multiple browsers, platforms, and even PDA's.

The Device Management Framework is available for the following platforms: Embedded Linux (and Linux), eCOS, VxWorks, QNX, Lynx, Windows (including Windows CE), and Mac OS X. Typical memory footprint is 300K.

Source code licenses sell for $9895 and include 40 hours of co-engineering and 90 days of e-mail support. Art & Logic also provides custom development services to embedded product developers.

For more information, go to www.artlogic.com