Sophia Systems announces their high level language debugger, Watchpoint™ supports Symbian OS™ v8.1 on ARM9 and ARM11 development environment

Kanagawa, JAPAN, Nov 17, 2004 - Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. (JASDAQ: Sophia), is pleased to announce the release of "Watchopint for Symbian OS Kernel Debugger" supporting Symbian OS™ v8.1.

Sophia Systems' "Watchpoint™ for Symbian OS Kernel Debugger" provides an excellent development environment for ARM 9 and ARM11 users developing Symbian OS based products. The combination of Sophia Systems' High Level Language Debugger, "Watchpoint" and "Watchpoint for Symbian OS Kernel Debugger" allows users to load the Symbian kernel and the static device driver to Symbian OS v8.1 via Sophia's emulators for execution/debugging, and debug application programs written to the Flash ROM.

Two tpes of compilers are supported, GNU/GCC compiler and Realview compiler(by the ARM). The use of ETM provides trace of the kernel, the application program written to the Flash ROM, and the static device driver.
In addition, the new OS Analyzer(in development) greatly improves the debugging efficiency by graphically displaying the transition status of Symbian OS v8.1 according to the time axis.

Sophia Systems provides a wide range of microprocessor development systems, from Full ICE to JTAG and ROM emulators, in order to support all development phases of embedded systems. The powerful C/C++ high level language debugger, Watchpoint, is included with all Sophia's emulators.

As a Symbian Platinum Partner, Sophia Systems will continue to develop OS analyzers and emulators aimed at improving the debugging efficiency of Symbian OS based mobile products.

Mr. Tasuku Kashihira, CEO of Sophia Systems, says, "Completely supporting Symbian OS has advanced our leadership in the field of development tools for the mobile product. We are happy to support Symbian in the development of mobile products with various capabilities. The companies which are designing cellular phones with Symbian OS will be able to decrease the transition time needed from development to the market by this new product."

About Symbian Ltd.
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and supplies the advanced, open, standard operating system - Symbian OS - for data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is headquartered in the UK. Symbian now employs approximately 900 with offices in Japan, Sweden, UK and the USA, with a development centre in Bangalore, India.

Since October 2004, 15 million phones using Symbian OS have been shipped. Currently 29 phones that use Symbian OS come from six manufacturers that are shipping worldwide. An additional 38 phones from ten manufacturers are now in development.

Symbian is an independent, for-profit company whose mission is to establish Symbian OS as the world standard for mobile digital data systems, primarily for use in cellular telecoms.

About Sophia Systems Co., Ltd.
Sophia Systems has been a leader in the embedded systems industry for 30 years and offers comprehensive development solutions for over 100 different microprocessors. Sophia Systems is headquartered just outside of Tokyo Japan with sales offices and/or distributors throughout Japan, North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.