September 13, 2010, Montreal, Canada – Embvue Inc., (www.embvue.com) – a leading provider of certifiable embedded systems, network and testing products, and professional services for mission-critical, safety-critical and security-sensitive systems, announced today the much-anticipated launch of its latest product – Generator.
Generator is a tool suite that Embvue’s experts have been developing and deploying over the past four years. Generator has enabled Embvue and its customers to be more competitive in delivering complex embedded systems that were certifiable up through Level A for the aerospace and defense markets. Since system test is a necessary and significant expense that everyone in the complex embedded system supply chain must deal with, especially if system certification is required, Generator has been architected to allow customers to leverage their testing investment by creating a framework that allows for a high degree of automation and significant test harness re-use on derivative and future products, thereby making future product generations less expensive.
Generator also provides purchasers and specifiers of embedded systems assurance that their suppliers are designing and delivering exactly what they need, and that what is delivered is not only functional, but testable and easily integrated as well. Furthermore, Generator makes it possible for customers to re-use tests produced at these lower supply chain levels directly to build their own system test harness, reducing duplication of effort, time to market and system cost.
“We are very excited to bring Generator to market and believe that it will provide our customers with the tools they need to deliver and sustain embedded systems to the highest levels of quality, quicker and more reasonably,” said Phil Cole, VP Sales and Marketing at Embvue. “We know from our own experience that test, verification and validation phases of an embedded systems development account conservatively for more than 50% of the cost of that embedded system, because we follow exactly the same processes that our customers do. Embvue has been developing Generator to provide a high degree of automation through the entire product lifecycle and throughout the supply chain, to allow customers to significantly reduce the per-product or per-project burden of the test, verification and validation phases in particular. ”
The benefits of Generator include:
Generate efficiency
Generator’s automated test execution reduces testing time by 90-95% over manual testing.
Generate tests for any embedded system
Generator‘s scripting language is ideally suited for real time systems, providing commands and syntax that include event time verification and the ability to drive complex inputs such as signal profiles. Even the most complex embedded systems can be tested.
Generate quality
Generator promotes improved product quality by allowing early, frequent and rapid automated real time testing. Test cases and procedures can start with high level requirements and evolve over time as requirements do, allowing greater design flexibility. Automatically generates test procedure subsets for regression testing, saving further time and money.
Generate supply chain efficiency and accountability
Generator enables customers of complex real time embedded systems to direct suppliers to use their system test harness to test the supplier’s sub-systems, both during development and prior to delivery, to ensure that the delivered sub-system meets requirements and is properly testable. Customer can then also re-use suppliers test harness.
Generate cost-effective product evolution strategy
Generator customers can leverage the investment they make in the test harness for a product by re-using the test cases and test procedures developed as the product line evolves over time. The only new test cases and procedures required are for new or modified requirements. This helps product roadmap planning by containing the cost of change on the test, verification and validation process.
Generate certification credit
Generator is a qualifiable tool that allows users to take certification credit for the testing performed by the tool. It is equally suited for software testing, hardware testing or integrated hardware/software testing, especially if such testing is required as part of a regulatory body certification submission. Generator project qualification goes smoothly as it comes with a kit of evidence and assistance from Embvue.
Generate ROI
Generator allows complete test harnesses to be built and archived against specific product assembly numbers. This allows for backward compatibility across product lines to be easily maintained as products evolve, since older generation products will always be testable alongside the latest version. This enables more cost-effective maintenance and support of such products over time, allowing them to stay on the market longer.
For organizations that develop and supply embedded systems and want to control project cost and risk, and ensure for themselves and prove to their customers that their products are being developed to meet their specifications, Generator is the tool for you.
For organizations that integrate or purchase complex embedded systems from third party suppliers and want to control project cost and risk, and ensure that those suppliers are delivering systems that meet their requirements and are testable, Generator is the tool for you.
About Embvue
Embvue is an experienced, process-driven, systems and software engineering company specializing in the provision of products and services for customers developing complex, real time, mission or safety-critical embedded systems. Additional information is available at www.embvue.com