LONGMONT, Colo., Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sage announced today its support for the new AMD Embedded G-Series platform featuring heterogeneous microprocessors and associated chipsets from AMD (NYSE: AMD). Engineers creating new platforms and software for these AMD APUs will now have detailed insight into their systems using Sage's JTAG debugging tools, without the need for target resources such as UARTs, Ethernet channels, or parallel ports. This update of Sage's products includes the SmartProbe and the EDK integrated development environment (IDE). These high performance tools result in quicker time-to-market and greater value for embedded developers.

Updates to the Sage SmartProbe gives software engineers a hardware interface to evaluate the system under development at every stage in the design cycle. SmartProbe offers the industry's most advanced solution for designing, debugging and programming of hardware platforms and software applications designed for AMD Embedded Solutions. Sage's Embedded Development Kit (EDK) offers an easy to use debug Graphical User Interface (GUI) for manipulation of the CPU (run, halt, reset, etc.) and its associated registers and memories. The IDE includes compiler, assembler, source-level debugger, and works in conjunction with the SmartProbe. This EDK integrates all design and debug functions in a clear, intuitive user interface. The debug tools from Sage support most production AMD processors. They allow graphic visualization of the entire embedded system operation, including code flow, register access, memory movement, call stack, multi-core execution and peripheral access. These tools require only that the design support a JTAG port.

The AMD Embedded G-Series platform is a compact, power-optimized Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) design incorporating new microarchitecture for one or two 64-bit x86 CPU cores, along with a discrete-class GPU with support for DirectX® 11. The G-Series is ideal for low power designs such as digital signage, integrated set-top box (xSTB) IP-TV, thin client, information kiosk, point of service and casino gaming markets, among others. When paired with the debug tools available from Sage, engineers can expect to harness more of the capabilities of these new products while getting to market faster with highly reliable systems.

"Sage remains fully committed to new and future AMD processors," said president and CEO of Sage Electronics and Engineering, Scott Hoot. "We know that AMD offers extremely compelling advantages and with the SmartProbe we hope to extend those benefits to a broader range of embedded systems, enable developers to innovate more and ultimately get their product to market faster."

"The AMD G-Series platform is the world's first APU for embedded systems and due to the collaborative nature of AMD, we were able to deliver this platform, with technology partners like Sage, with a broad, open ecosystem that simplifies our customers' development," said Richard Jaenicke, director, Product Marketing, AMD. "Now with SmartProbe and the AMD Embedded G-Series platform, software engineers will be able to troubleshoot, innovate, and improve reliability at every stage in the design cycle. We look forward to seeing how engineers will benefit from this new comprehensive tool set and to working with Sage in the future."

Further information about Sage's products may be found at their website: www.se-eng.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Pricing & Availability

The Sage debug tools are available immediately for the AMD G-Series Platform at an introductory price of $1499 for the SmartProbe and $399 for the EDK integrated development environment. This pricing is good through March 31, 2011.

Supporting Resources

AMD@Work/Embedded blog

www.amd.com/embedded

www.se-eng.com

About Sage Electronics and Engineering

Sage Electronics and Engineering is a dedicated supplier of JTAG emulation solutions for on-chip debugging of 32-bit and 64-bit embedded x86 microprocessors. Sage's SmartProbe exclusively supports AMD's microprocessors. Supported host environments for Sage's tools include Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Linux. In addition to debugging tools, Sage provides both platform and software engineering services targeted at the embedded and open source communities.

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