Kozio, Inc. Joins Freescale Tools Alliance
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Kozio tools to help speed time-to-market, reduce cost of test for Freescale customers
November 14, 2005, Longmont, Colo. - Kozio, Inc., a leading provider of embedded software for system-level hardware testing, today announced it is a new corporate member of the Freescale Semiconductor Tools Alliance Program. Kozio provides a comprehensive system-level test package for custom hardware platforms with fast delivery times for supported processors, including the Freescale PowerQUICC(TM) III family featuring the MPC8540, MPC8560, MPC8541 and MPC8555 processors.
"We're excited to join the Freescale Tools Alliance, and we look forward to supplying Freescale customers with a means of reducing the cost of test and getting to market more quickly while designing and manufacturing new electronic products," notes Kozio President Joseph Skazinski.
The Freescale Tools Alliance Program is a worldwide network of industry-leading development tools vendors that provides a variety of solutions for Freescale customers. By forming this alliance with industry-leading development tools suppliers, Freescale helps bring the right solutions to its customers. The directory of program members can be accessed at www.freescale.com.
Kozio provides electronic product designers and manufacturers with software customized to perform on their processor board. This service includes the creation of software test algorithms providing comprehensive or near-comprehensive test coverage of various hardware components on a processor board. A detailed test-coverage document is delivered with the software.
Kozio software is offered in several variations, along with supporting services:
Manufacturing Test Software - kMfgTest
Board Bring-up Diagnostics - kDiagnostics
Power-On Self Test Software - kPOST
In addition, Kozio also offers a free evaluation of its kDiagnostics software for board bring-up diagnostics for use on supported processor reference platforms from industry-leading semiconductor providers and product solutions companies.
About Kozio, Inc.
Kozio, Inc. develops software solutions that verify design and validate hardware for embedded single-board computer systems used in products such as ADSL gateways, wireless access points, network routers, voice solutions, security and test equipment, and aerospace systems. Kozio's products provide comprehensive test solutions, including diagnostics for board bring-up, automated manufacturing test, and built-in self-test software for manufactured products. Kozio's customers design, develop and manufacture boards used in computer-based electronic systems for the aerospace, networking, defense, test and wireless industries. Kozio products ease many embedded systems development challenges, from design through manufacturing and support, saving customers time and money. The company is privately held and based in Longmont, Colorado. For more information, visit www.kozio.com.
Kozio and kDiagnostics is a registered trademark of Kozio, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact: Joseph Skazinski, Kozio, Inc., (303) 776-1356, joseph.skazinski@kozio.com , or Brad Shannon, Shannon Marketing Communications, (970) 461-4906, brad@shannonmarcom.com.
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