Sophia Systems releases the first development solution
which supports ARM Cortex-R4 in the Japanese ICE industry

Japan, March, 2007: Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. JASDAQ (Sophia 6942), is pleased to release the first development solution supporting "ARM Cortex-R4" of ARM Cortex(TM) in ARM's core family in the Japanese ICE industry.

Sophia has been providing development tools supporting many ARM processors as a member of the ARM(R) Connected Community. The Sophia sales channels are growing domestically and internationally, allowing for development support for embedded engineers worldwide. Sophia's JTAG emulator, "EJ-Debug" and JTAG emulator with ETM trace, "EJ-Debug ETM" support all the latest ARM processors, including "ARM Cortex R4".

The ARM Cortex family is a flexible solution based on the ARMv7 architecture to provide customizable technology defined by application or performance requirements driven by the market. "R" series will be optimized for systems running a real-time OS, which gives an expectation of its adoption for control applications such as automotive, networking or image processing.

<EJ-Debug & EJ-Debug-ETM>
Our high-level language Watchpoint debugger included with EJ-Debug and EJ-Debug-ETM provides many powerful features such as high-speed downloading of various module formats, various OS debugging functions (OS support for Linux, WindowsCE, Symbian, ITRON, etc), easy access to the symbol source and file functions, ability to modify and save source and disassembly code, view and modify internal registers, fast program downloads directly to Flash ROM, and so much more...
EJ-Debug & EJ-Debug-ETM feature Fast USB (USB 2.0) PC interface and USB bus powered.
It is featured to support the CoreSight Technology. CoreSight Technology is an integrated debugging/trace solution for a complete system-on-chip (SoC). This solution simplifies debugging of SoC with ARM core, greatly reducing your overall system development time.

Sophia Systems continues to release EJ-Debug series for a wider range of CPUs upon customer's requests. Custom orders are also available.
Sophia Systems acknowledges that helping engineers to efficiently deliver better products to the market is our most important priority.

<About ARM Ltd and Cortex>
Refer to http://www.jp.arm.com