Bristol start-up releases Eclipse plug-in for graphical programming

Source: EE Times UK

Summary:
AGP Micro has released details of xState Developer, a state machine based graphical programming tool for embedded and real-time system developers.

AGP Micro, an independent software vendor of Eclipse plug-ins for embedded and real-time systems based in Bristol, U.K., will publicly release xState Developer at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston, in September with thefirst European demonstration at the Embedded Systems Show in Birmingham, U.K, in October.

xState Developer uses a graphical hierarchical state machine notation for the development of event based logic coupled with an ANSI C code generator to provide a graphical programming tool for embedded and real-time system developers. It should decrease the number of bugs within the software implementation by using a simple hierarchical state machine notation and avoiding the complexity and ambiguities of UML State machines and State charts that can introduce bugs at the design level.

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