Macraigor Systems Demonstrates New USB 2.0 JTAG Interface Devices at Embedded Systems Conference

Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose Convention Center, Booth 1935 April 3-6, 2006.

SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) March 1, 2006 -- Macraigor Systems LLC today announced usb2Demon and usb2Sprite, two new USB 2.0 JTAG debug interface devices being demonstrated at the Embedded Systems Conference in Booth 1935. These new devices are immediately available for ARM, Xscale and PowerPC processors. The usb2Demon and usb2Sprite devices are identical in functionality, but differ in speed to provide embedded developers with flexibility in choosing an appropriate price/performance ratio for their projects.

usb2Demon is the high-speed version of the product. With pricing set at $750 USD, this device matches the price of Macraigor’s popular Raven parallel JTAG interface while providing a significant download speed improvement (see table below for sample download speed comparisons). usb2Sprite is a low-cost, slower version of the device for price-sensitive projects or situations where maximum download speed is not an issue. Pricing for usb2Sprite has been set at $210 USD.

Both new devices support Windows and Linux hosts and are fully compatible with all of Macraigor’s software tools, including the Flash Programmer, J-Scan suite of JTAG hardware debug tools and the free, low-level OCD Commander debugger and pre-built Gnu tools suite.

Sample usb2Demon/ usb2Sprite Download Speeds vs. Raven

(speeds are in Kbytes/sec)

Processor:    

XScale    

ARM9    

AMCC 440EP    

MPC8541    

Board:

ADI 80200EVB

Atmel AT91RM9200

AMCC Bamboo

Freescale 8541 Eval

Raven:

128

31

82

183

usb2Demon:

374

78

183

520

usb2Sprite:

81

31

39

144

Advanced, Price-Sensitive Embedded Debug Solutions

Macraigor’s OCDemon family of products offers the industry’s most advanced yet price-sensitive solution for designing, debugging and programming embedded hardware and application software. Macraigor’s debugging solutions include a broad range of hardware interface devices and application programs. These provide embedded systems engineers with a high degree of flexibility in selecting a host interface and an appropriate price/performance ratio for their embedded projects. Macraigor hardware debug devices are available with parallel, serial, USB or Ethernet connectivity to both Windows and Linux host machines.

Debug application programs are available to support an embedded project through the entire development cycle, from troubleshooting a prototype hardware design to writing and debugging boot code, programming in-circuit Flash devices, developing application-level software, and supporting manufacturing burn-in and testing.

Pricing & Availability

Both USB 2.0 devices are immediately available. Pricing for usb2Demon is $750 USD, while pricing for usb2Sprite is set at $210 USD.

About Macraigor Systems

Macraigor Systems LLC is a leading supplier of boundary scan-based hardware debug and BDM/JTAG connection solutions for on-chip debugging of 32 and 64-bit embedded microprocessors. Macraigor Systems’ solutions are designed for price-sensitive customers. These solutions include a suite of software tools that support Windows 9x, NT, ME, XP, 2000, Linux and Solaris host systems. Macraigor Systems supports all major embedded microprocessor architectures, including AMD, ARM, CPU32 Series, PowerPC, MIPS and the XScale microarchitecture. For more information about Macraigor products, please visit www.macraigor.us.

The URL for this release is located at: http://www.patterson.com/news/USB%202%200%20JTAG%20Final.doc

Macraigor Systems LLC, usb2Demon, usb2Sprite and OCDemon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macraigor Systems LLC in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks and products are the property of their respective owners.

North American Sales Contact: Macraigor Systems LLC, PO Box 471008, Brookline Village, MA 02447-1008, Tel: 617-739-8693; Fax: 617-739-8694, Email: http://www.macraigor.us/contact_sales.htm; Website: http://www.macraigor.com.

Media Contact:

Barbara Stewart

Patterson & Associates

480-488-6909

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