Enea to enhance Optima Software Tools

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: Enea has announced the immediate availability of the Enea Optima 2.2 Eclipse-based integrated development environment.

Enea Optima 2.2 features new capabilities for rapidly developing complex embedded multicore applications including enhanced profiling, analysis and memory management.

"The enhancements we have made to Enea Optima provide the deep visibility that developers need to properly evaluate system performance across a wide range of implementation options, ensuring the most optimized realtime and embedded devices," said Mathias Båth, senior vice president of marketing at Enea.

The Optima System Profiler simplifies the development, debugging and optimization of multicore systems by allowing users to monitor the CPU usage of all cores, programs and threads at the same time. Information can be presented in both 3D and 2D charts allowing the developer to quickly assess total usage as well as the contribution from individual processes added the press release.

Additionally, the new Optima Heap Browser provides insight into overall heap memory usage, as well details about individual process usage and buffers, for optimization and error detection purposes.

Application memory management (inefficient use, fragmentation, leaks, dangling pointers, etc) has always been a common cause for problems in software systems and the increasing use of multicore processors has only made this more challenging.

The new Optima Heap Browser provides the same tools for the C/C++ standard memory heap that the Optima Pool Browser provides for OSE Pools, thereby increasing the value of the Optima tools for pure application development.

The Enea Optima tool suite is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment targeting the Enea OSE, Enea OSEck and many other popular real-time and embedded operating systems.