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QP™ Frameworks
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Companion page to PSiCC2
Companion page to PSiCC1
Without using QP, I don't believe we could have delivered on our given schedule dates with the same level of quality."
Jeff Karau, Sr. Software Engineer, General Dynamics C4 Systems
Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems (PSiCC2) is the most popular book about UML statecharts and event-driven programming for embedded systems. This ultimate resource describes all the related concepts and provides a very detailed design study of the QP™ frameworks.
companion page to PSiCC2
...After trying out a couple of CASE tools we came to the conclusion that expensive round-trip-engineering UML tools were cumbersome and did not fit our way of working. However, the innovative QP way to map UML state machines to C/C++ code was exactly what we were looking for..."
Henrik Bohre, Embedded Systems Consultant, GotCom AB, Göteborg, Sweden
I'm speaking from first-hand experience when I say this is really good stuff. I just hope others will recognize that and we can get past the old main+ISR vs. RTOS dilemma for a large variety of applications."
Michael Barr, President Netrino and former editor-in-chief of the ESP magazine
Practical Statecharts in C/C++ has been an indispensible reference for my embedded systems work. The clear and succinct conceptual and software framework, along with the immediately usable code enabled us to get a working prototype of our control system in a few weeks."
Dr. Haitham Hindi, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
...QP has been adopted accross the company and is used in all our products on a variety of OS platforms..."
Dr. Paul Montgomery, Director of Engineering, Novariant, Fremont CA
I recently rewrote a major piece of code to utilise the QP framework and it has worked wonders. My previous code used a more traditional state machine and had quickly evolved into spaghetti code. The hierarchical state machine approach made the new code smaller, more robust, and much easier to maintain and extend."
Bob Bradley, Apple Computer, Inc., from Amazon.com review
Quantum Leaps software has revolutionized not just the way we write our software, but the way we approach our design. It is intuitive, easy to implement and comes in an incredibly small package. If you're in the 8-bit world, you need this software!"
Chad Koster, Software Engineer, Honeywell
Simply put, designing sofware using the QP framework lets you code the way you think..."
Rich Wooley, Sofware Engineer, Nipro Diabetes Systems, Florida
About Quantum Leaps®
Quantum Leaps®, LLC provides lightweight application frameworks and graphical modeling tools for real-time embedded systems. Originally founded in Silicon Valley in 2005, Quantum Leaps moved to North Carolina in 2007. We are located in Chapel Hill — just minues to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to the Research Triangle Park.
The main components of our technology have been described in two editions of the book Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++. Embedded systems developers worldwide are using our frameworks and modeling tools because of their modern architecture, support for hierarchical state machines, safe programming model, small memory footprint, comprehensive documentation, and greatly reduced total cost of application development and maintenance. Our software products are used by some of the largest companies in the world in consumer, medical, industrial, wireless, networking, research, automotive, defense, robotics, and other applications worldwide.
Mission
Our mission is to bring quantum leaps of innovation to embedded systems programming. We are dedicated to providing simple, practical software solutions that enable widespread adoption of software modeling based on hierarchical state machines, active object computing, and framework-based application development. Our goal is to dramatically improve sofware quality and shorten the development cycles by making modern state machines, active object computing, UML, object-oriented programming, design by contract, as well as modeling and automatic code generation more accessible to the embedded systems community.
Manifesto
We built the company that we'd ourselves want to do business with. Here's how we operate:
Fundamental concepts are timeless
Bells, whistles, and buzzwords wear off, but fundamental concepts never go out of style. We make fundamental concepts practical and accessible by providing useful software that does just what you need and nothing you don’t.Embedded software must be open
Any piece of our software that goes into an embedded device is open source, because you need to be able to understand, adapt, recompile, and debug the software in source code.Open source software must be safe
We own all the intellectual property in our software. Therefore, we can offer closed-source licensing and the accountability for the licensed intellectual property to all commercial customers interested in retaining the proprietary character of their software.Quality is good business
With every commercial license we offer professional technical support. This is designed to motivate us to keep our software free of bugs, easy to use, and clearly documented with many examples to minimize our support load and expenses.
We trust our customers
All our software and documentation is truly free to download, without any license keys, crippled features, or teasing private information out of our potential customers. We trust you, because the sustainability and thriving of our business is ultimately in your own best interest as well.Our customers are our investors
Our customers fund our daily operations by purchasing commercial licenses for our software. We answer to them — not investors, the stock market, or a board of directors.No hidden fees or secret prices
We believe everyone is entitled to the best price we can offer. Our prices are open and transparent, published right on our site.Software development can be fun
Our software and tools make software development fun again. You work at a higher level of abstraction of events and state machines, instead of struggling with "spaghetti" code and unresponsive blocking tasks of a traditional RTOS.
Business Model
Quantum Leaps®, LLC is a second-generation open source company that has established sustainable business based on dual-licensing of open source software. Second-generation open source companies, such as MySQL, Sleepycat, or Trolltech, make the majority of their revenue from selling software licenses. Historically, most first-generation open source companies have built their business model on a free product and paid support, while Quantum Leaps®charges for the product and offers free 1-year technical support with every commercial license. As a consequence, we are highly motivated to keep our software free of bugs, easy to use, and to supply good documentation with many examples to minimize our support load and expenses. This is in contrast to many first-generation open-source companies (e.g., Linux vendors), where such strategy would actually lower their revenue and profit from support contracts.
The disruptive Professional Open Source model that we practice combines the best of the open source and proprietary software worlds to make open source a safe choice for the embedded systems vendors. This includes the unrestricted software downloads, transparent development and active community inherent in open source as well as professional documentation and technical support expected of a traditional software vendor. In contrast to most open source offerings, second-generation companies entirely own all the Intellectual Property in their software. Therefore we can offer closed-source licensing and the accountability for the licensed Intellectual Property to all customers interested in retaining the proprietary character of their software.
Management
Dr. Miro Samek, President
Dr. Miro Samek is the author of the book Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems (Newnes, 2008), has published over 20 technical articles including a column for C/C++ Users Journal, is a regular speaker at the Embedded Systems Conferences since 2003, and serves on the editorial review board of the Embedded Systems Design magazine. His extensive industry experience ranges from safety-critical software development at GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) through hard real-time embedded system design at two Silicon Valley companies specializing in GPS technologies. Dr. Samek earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany).
Last updated: June 10, 2011