BSO/TASKING PROVIDES MIGRATION PATH TO NEW INTEL MCS 251 MICROCONTROLLER

Dedham, Mass., December 2, 1995 -- Today BSO/TASKING announced it is
providing an instant path for 8051 users to migrate to the MCS 251,
Intel's new microcontroller featuring significant performance improvements
over the 8051 architecture.

BSO/TASKING will deliver an ANSI C based tool kit called the 'Starter Pack'
which includes a binary mode compiler and a simulator debugger for direct
migration of 8051 applications to the faster MCS 251 architecture. No C or
assembly language changes are necessary to take advantage of the 5 times
performance improvement of the MCS 251 in binary mode over the standard
Intel 8051 architectures.

Stephen Whalley, Manager of US Operations, 8 bit Products, for Intel
Corporation, comments, "The tools from BSO/TASKING will enable Intel users
to take advantage of the significant performance improvements of the MCS
251 architecture without changing their existing code. This ability adds
tremendous value to a customer's existing investment in hardware and
software."

BSO/TASKING will also deliver the 'Power Pack' source mode compiler which
produces code for the full 251 architecture providing up to a 30 times
performance improvement over the Intel 8051 architectures, allowing users
to take full advantage of both the MCS 251's increased speed and complete
instruction set, with only minimal rewriting of existing code. The 'Power
Pack' features an efficient ANSI C source mode compiler with powerful 251
extensions, supporting the full instruction set and 16Mb address space of
the new MCS 251 microcontroller.

Both the 'Starter Pack' and the 'Power Pack' will feature the new CrossView
Windows 251 Simulator Debugger for high level language debugging in C and
assembly. CrossView offers a cost-effective way of providing engineers
with debugging stations for software testing and evaluation, allowing them
to test software in a known and repeatable environment before hardware is
available. Engineers running binary code in the debugger can review the
performance advantages they would gain by switching from binary mode to
source mode.

Peter Hoogenboom, 251 Project Manager for BSO/TASKING, adds, "Our CrossView
debugger provides engineers with a powerful tool that will indicate
exactly at what point it would benefit them to change to MCS 251 source
mode and/or switch to the Power Pack compiler."

The 'Starter Pack' is available on PC only, pricing starts at $395. The
'Power Pack' will be available on PC, SUN SPARC and SUN Solaris and HP9000
HPUX. Pricing and release date to be announced.

BSO/TASKING is a leading developer and supplier of integrated software
development tools for the embedded systems market, supporting a wide range
of CISC, RISC and DSP semiconductor technologies. Headquartered in Dedham,
Mass., BSO/TASKING has offices worldwide, located in the Netherlands,
London, Milan, Stuttgart, Paris and Tokyo.

For more information contact BSO/TASKlNG at 617-320-9400, 333 Elm Street,
Dedham, MA 02026; FAX 617-320-9212.

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