• "Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, 2nd Ed." (PSiCC2) hits the US bookstores
• QP Development Kits (QDKs) for QPv4
• New Ground-Breaking State-Local Storage Design Pattern
• "Event-Driven Programming and Hierarchical State Machines" class at the Renesas DevCon'08
• Quantum Leaps joins the ARM Connected Community
• Make the most of side-by-side code differencing

The PSiCC2 book finally arrives in the US bookstores! The accompanying website to PSiCC2 is up and running as well. You can find there the following information:

• Find the best online deal to buy the book
• Excerpts from the book, including the Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1, which describes a fun, event-driven example of a "Fly 'n' Shoot" game implemented with QP 4.
• Complete source code accompanying the book, including QP/C 4.0.01, QP/C++ 4.0.01, QP-nano 4.0.02, and all examples described in the book. Most of the provided examples can be executed on a standard Windows PC. ARM Cortex-M3 and MSP430 versions of the examples are provided as well.
• Links to the tools used in the book

QP Development Kits (QDKs) for QPv4

The new QPv4 is now supported on the following processors:

• ARM7/ARM9
• ARM Cortex-M3
• Atmel AVR
• TI MSP430
• Renesas M16C/R8C
• Renesas H8/300
• FreeScale ColdFire
• Microchip PIC18
• 8051 and 80251
• FreeScale HC(S)08
• Cypress PSoC

The new QPv4 is also supported on the following OS/RTOS:

• Linux/BSD
• Windows/WinCE
• VxWorks
• FreeRTOS.org
• uC/OS-II
• eCos

New Ground-Breaking State-Local Storage Design Pattern

In the standard UML state machine formalism all states of a state machine share the same set of variables (extended-state variables). Consequently, the memory required by a state machine is the aggregate of all extended-state variables needed in all states, even though only one state configuration can be active at any given time. The aggregate memory footprint of all extended-state variables might be a problem for memory-constrained applications with a large number of states.

The new state design pattern State-Local Storage (SLS) reduces memory footprint of state machines by introducing the state-local variable scope.

"Event-Driven Programming and Hierarchical State Machines" class at the Renesas Developer's Conference'08

October 15, 2008 (Wednesday)
Time:  9:30am-10:30am
The Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel
San Diego, CA

Quantum Leaps will present a class Event-Driven Programming and Hierarchical State Machines (Course A0E).

Here is the class abstract:

Quantum Leaps joins the ARM Connected Community

Quantum Leaps joins the ARM Connected Community with demonstrated expertise in programming ARM7/ARM9 and AMR Cortex-M3 processors. We offer several QP Development Kits (QDKs) for the traditional ARM7/ARM9 processors (ARM/THUMB microcontrollers) as well as QDKs for the new ARM Cortex-M3.

Make the most of side-by-side code differencing

Check out the state-space blog on EmbeddedGurus.net. The latest post is about making the most of side-by-side code differencing.