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12.12.2001

Aplix Corporation's JBlend™ to support T-Engine, the new TRON standard!

TOKYO - December 12, 2001 -

An Ultra- miniature CPU board will run Java applets in cell phones

Aplix Corporation (head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; (President Keisuke Hayashi) announces that its JBlend™ embedded Java™ solution, already widely adopted as an industry standard platform for cellular phones and other mobile information devices, will support T-Engine, the next-generation standard development environment of the TRON Project in the second quarter of 2002.

T-Engine implementing the JBlend™ platform is on display at TRONSHOW 2002, the 18th TRON Project Symposium, held from December 13 to 15 at Laforet Museum in Roppongi.

T-Engine is a new open hardware platform encompassing standards for both software and hardware. As a foundation for porting middleware, it promises to revolutionize system development by deploying a CPU board small enough to be embedded right in the final product.

The use of this board in combination with JBlend™, as an environment for developing embedded system applications and user interfaces using a low-cost PC-based Java development environment, will eliminate the need for expensive development systems and hardware prototypes; thus, transforming the basic architecture of embedded system development. Details of T-Engine and of the TRON Project can be found at http://www.tron.org/.

With JBlend™ already well established as an embedded Java solution in popular cell phones, Java applications for cell phones will be able to run on T-Engine as well, without modification. The bringing together of JBlend™ supporting T-Engine has clear advantages for anyone developing next-generation information devices, especially when it comes to creating innovative user interfaces with interactive features.

JBlend™ offers the Java advantages for outfitting embedded systems with a sophisticated GUI and networking functionality. Additionally, the software resources and development know-how incorporated in the wealth of Java applications available for cell phones can be carried over to products in other categories such as home appliances, with JBlend™ making possible seamless linking among T-Engine, cell phones, other information devices and home electronics products.

  • Background on T-Engine

    The T-Engine project is the brainchild of TRON Project leader Ken Sakamura (University of Tokyo), who proposed it as a standard development environment for real-time systems and as the building blocks for ubiquitous computer environments. The T-Engine hardware is a palm-sized CPU board for standard use in developing next-generation embedded systems. At its heart is T-Kernel, the successor to the ITRON-specification OS. It is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2002.

    Aplix has been participating in the TRON Project and as a provider of Java solutions for embedded system use, has been part of the T-Engine project from its inception. With the implementation of T-Engine as a Java execution environment as a standard platform for cell phones, information terminals and next-generation information appliances, Aplix aims to make available a development environment that will give further impetus to a wider acceptance of mobile information devices.

  • About Aplix Corporation

    Aplix Corporation is a software development company founded in 1986. JBlend™ is a key product developed by Aplix based on Java technology and provided as an embedded system solution for consumer products.

    The JBlend™ Java solution that Aplix provides to system vendors is a Java execution environment for implementing advanced performance and fast operation on small-memory systems. It is available in various configurations (CLDC/CDC) and profiles including MIDP and i-Mode. Expanded functions (2D, 3D, karaoke, etc.) and tools for porting and testing are also provided. Aplix is an official licensee of Sun Microsystems' Java technology, acquiring licenses for the Sun JAE (JDK) and JavaOS in 1996, and currently holding both source code and commercial distribution licenses for PersonalJava, EmbeddedJava, and CLDC (KVM), among others.

    Today more than 2 million products using JBlend™ has been shipped, including such audio-visual devices as Sanyo Electric's Digital Image Album and Sony's MD DISCAM, as well as a wide range of cell phones (in alphabetical order: Casio C452CA, Hitachi C451H/C3001H, Kenwood J-K51, Kyocera C3002K, Mitsubishi J-D05, NEC J-N04, Sharp J-SH07/J-SH51, Sony SO503i/SO503iS, and Toshiba J-T06/C5001T).

  • Inquiries about JBlend™ products:

    Aplix Corporation, Public Relations, Product Planning Team, Embedded Systems Research and Development
    E-mail: sales@JBlend.com
    TEL: 03-3207-6575
    URL: JBlend™

* JBlend™ is a registered trademark of Aplix Corporation.
Other company names and product names appearing here are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.
TRON is an abbreviation of "The Real-time Operating system Nucleus."

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