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Seaweed Systems Becomes First Khronos Group Contributor for OpenGL® ES Standard
Seaweeds expertise in DO-178B certifiable, small-footprint embedded graphics API subsets will assist in making OpenGL® ES ready for safety-critical applications.
SIGGRAPH, San Antonio, Texas -- July 23, 2002 -- Seaweed Systems, Inc. (www.seaweed.com) a leading developer and supplier of OpenGL® and X Window System embedded graphics driver products, is pleased to announce today that they have become the first Contributing Member to join the Khronos Group under their new Participation Agreement. Seaweed Systems is also honored to provide a display on the Khronos Groups (www.khronos.org) booth #5060 at SIGGRAPH in San Antonio, Texas, July 23-25, 2002 that features an embedded 3D automatic terrain rendering that demonstrates how a future real-world avionics application might benefit from the type of 3D embedded graphics API being developed by the Khronos Group Members. The demonstration uses Seaweeds own 3D OpenGL® subset API that is an integral part of the package that has been developed by EmbVUE (www.embvue.com), a Strategic Marketing Partner of Seaweed Systems. A fully embedded version of the same demonstration, which has generated a great deal of interest in the avionics community because it contains a full stack of COTS software running a rich and realistic graphics environment on deployable COTS hardware at the speeds the avionics community demands, is also being shown this week at the Farnborough Air Show in the UK, July 22-28, 2002.
Seaweed Systems is excited to join the Group as a Contributing Member and help to establish small-footprint 2D and 3D embedded graphics APIs using standardized subsets of OpenGL®," said Robert Schulman, President of Seaweed Systems, Inc. For quite some time we have been successfully developing OpenGL® subsets to meet the needs of our customers in the avionics and high-end embedded graphics markets with requirements for safety-critical solutions. For our avionics customers, certification by the FAA or other Regulatory Body to DO-178B standards has become the key factor driving their development. Seaweed has developed a range of DO-178B-certifiable products that enable its customers to benefit from their small-footprint, fully-supported, COTS OpenGL® solutions, and we are we are delighted with this opportunity to contribute our experience to the development efforts of the Khronos Group."
Seaweeds real-world experience, both in certified, safety-critical embedded graphics APIs and high-performance OpenGL drivers, will make them a valuable contributor to Khronos OpenGL ES initiative," said Neil Trevett, secretary of the Khronos Group. The success of any standardization project ultimately rests on the commitment and expertise of its participants -- and I think we are off to an excellent start by welcoming Seaweed as the first Contributor under the Khronos new Participation framework."
On Show-site Contacts
To see the demonstrations mentioned in this release or to make an appointment for a press briefing, please contact:
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Elizabeth Riegel: (707) 350 7755 Phil Cole: (514) 586 2199
About Seaweed Systems, Inc.
Seaweed Systems provides software products and consulting services in the embedded X Window System and OpenGL® markets. It also provides a range of safety-critical OpenGL® solutions for applications requiring safety certification. Seaweed Systems' customers, which include BAE SYSTEMS, Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, DY4, Elbit Systems, Ericsson Avionics, General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, L-3, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Radstone Technology, Raytheon and IS&S, benefit from Seaweed's unmatched price, performance, feature set and implementation schedules in the real-time embedded space. They also benefit from the strong working relationships established between Seaweed Systems and other leading COTS suppliers in this arena such as 3Dlabs, Wind River, Green Hills, Radstone, eNGENUITY Technologies, EmbVUE and DY4. These relationships guarantee that customers are provided with the most complete and advanced product solution possible for both certifiable and non-certifiable developments. http://www.seaweed.com
About the Khronos Group
The Khronos Group was founded in January 2000 by a number of leading graphics and digital media companies including 3Dlabs, ATI, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel, SGI and Sun Microsystems to promote the creation and deployment of rich media through the creation of open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms & devices. http://www.khronos.org
Seaweed Systems is a trademark of Seaweed Systems, Inc. OpenGL® is a trademark of SGI Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged.
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