Sophia Systems announces the development environment to support Windows® CE.NET 5.0, releasing the new interface software between Platform Builder 5.0 and Sophia's emulators

Kanagawa, JAPAN, Nov 17, 2004 - Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. (JASDAQ: Sophia), is pleased to announce "WP4MSPB PXA25x/27x [Watchpoint for Platform Builder", the interface software allowing Sophia's emulators to connect to Microsoft's Platform Builder supporting Windows® CE.NET 5.0.

For Windows® CE.NET 5.0 developers working with the Intel® PXA25x/PXA27x processor families, Sophia's high-level language Watchpoint® debugger can now fully support Platform Builder users. This debugger cooperation provides full debugging from the initial reset status and interrupt routine that are not available with Platform Builder stand alone. In addition, the debugging of boot loader via Watchpoint, and writing to Flash memory of boot loader is now possible. Sophia Systems will be supporting additional CPUs such as ARM shortly.

The combination use of Sophia Systems' High Level Language Debugger, Watchopint®, and Microsoft's Platform Builder, has been very successful in bringing a wide range of powerful debugging capabilities to WinCE developers such as: program loading to Flash ROM, program execution/break, memory register's view/modification, bus trace, emulation memory's view/modification, etc…

Tasuku Kashihira, CEO of Sophia Systems says, "The advanced version of cooperation of Microsoft's Platform Builder and Sophia's emulator will promote the use of Platform Builder, making the system development with each processor more efficient. Sophia Systems will be continuously providing the leading debugging solution to the Microsoft customers."

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.

In September 2004, Sophia Systems was awarded "Windows Embedded 2004 Partner of the Year" by Microsoft Japan for contributing to the success of WinCE based development environments. Leading up to the award, Microsoft highly evaluated our Sandgate and Sandgate 2 DVK's as well as our work in creating BSPs, taking part in hardware enabling programs and making alliances with Intel and other technology leaders.

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.