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News Release from: Accelerated Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 May 2005
Henderson and Mellor to aid
standardisation
Accelerated Technology is taking an expanded role in software modelling standards with the appointment of two of its software experts to key roles in the Object Management Group.
Accelerated Technology is taking an expanded role in software modelling standards with the appointment of two of its software experts to key roles in the Object Management Group (OMG) The OMG is an international, not-for-profit software consortium that produces and maintains computer-industry specifications for interoperable applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Accelerated Technology, with decades of experience in embedded and real-time systems, has rapidly become a critical participant in the success of OMG's modelling standards, especially through their leadership in the Executable UML process", said Dr Richard M.
Soley, Chairman and CEO of the OMG.
"Having taken two major leadership positions, on the OMG Board of Directors and Architecture Board, Accelerated Technology is poised to make a major impact on all of OMG's activities".
"OMG is delighted to have the support of the company, and specifically of leading figures like Stephen Mellor and Neil Henderson, which will ensure high quality, rapidly delivered and broadly relevant modelling standards to the real-time and embedded development community".
"We are excited to be active participants in the OMG", said Neil Henderson, General Manager of Accelerated Technology, a division of Mentor Graphics.
"The complexity and concurrency in many of today's embedded software projects need the standards and platform independence that executable UML offers".
"We are helping to drive those standards".
Accelerated Technology cosponsored the Object Management Group Technical Meeting held last month in Athens, Greece, at which Mellor gave a well-received keynote presentation entitled "Agility in modelling".
The presentation proposed that the design and programming communities unite and focus on developing executable models that can be used to verify designs before translating them to traditional languages used to program embedded systems.
Accelerated Technology offers Nucleus BridgePoint, a complete executable UML tool suite that uses the Eclipse standard framework.
This framework allows the seamless communication between high-level design tools and the development tools and RTOS used by the embedded software engineer.
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