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XE8000ProStart A smart development tool, featuring the XE8000 microcontroller     Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Mountain View, CA November 21, 2000       XEMICS SA has launched the XE8000Prostart kit, a comprehensive tool that enables users to program and effectively evaluate XE8000 microcontrollers performance under an application's constraints. The kit includes the necessary hardware and a number of software development tools including a C-compiler, a Simulator, a Source level debugger, a Profiler and an integrated graphical environment. XE8000 Series This series of microcontrollers is one of the very few of its kind to consume extremely low power and at the same time, require little or practically no external components as it has complete mixed-signal peripherals, including the award winning 16+6 bits ZoomingADC. This is good news for the user as they can build extremely compact battery powered appliances around it. XE8000Prostart The ProStart comes in four different adaptations, one for each of the XE8000 processor models. Applying the ProStart is the ideal way to integrate the XEMICS' XE8000 ultra low power microcontrollers into your application. The ProStart includes the printed boards with a zero-insertion-force socket, documentation, the CoolRIDE CD-ROM software and 3 processor samples with embedded multiple time programmable Flash memory. CoolRIDE Software The XE8000 ProStart is directly under control of the CoolRIDE integrated development environment software. This software incorporates a group of integrated development tools that are viewed through a unified graphic user interface (GUI). The tools include C Compiler, Source Level Debugger + Simulator and Profiler, as well as the regular Assembler and Linker. Individually each of these tools offers a set of value-added qualities, typically, the Profiler, which allows users to monitor their current consumption and memory usage whilst the software executes is of great help to optimize energy usage. In this way it is quite unmatched by other competitors in the industry. In addition, the C Compiler is supporting the ANSI-C standard code. C-programming significantly reduces the application's development time enabling the user to rapidly integrate its application onto the microcontroller and to shorten its time-to-market. The XE8000 ProStart and CoolRIDE development tools are available through XEMICS world-wide network of distributors (please consult the web site for a full list www.xemics.com or call our sales department).