PERSPECTIVE™ Product

PERSPECTIVE™ is a Programming Support Environment developed by EDS for PASCAL- based software systems. PERSPECTIVE™ provides support for the software development process from initial design to in-service maintenance.

In particular, PERSPECTIVE™ is designed to meet the demands of management in controlling project teams, and provide specialist support for developing and maintaining real-time software for embedded computer systems.

The PERSPECTIVE™ system is appropriate for developers of medium to large systems. It is hosted on OpenVMS VAX and Alpha platforms. PERSPECTIVE™ performs editing, compilation and system building functions.

Applications software can be downline loaded to the target hardware (such as a single board micro-computer) through a simple communication line and tested by using the PERSPECTIVE™ host system to inspect, control and debug the target system. This approach combines the advantages of a friendly and familiar environment of the host computer, with the ability to test application software on the actual target hardware.

The PERSPECTIVE™ system is intended to be used by a project team during the development and maintenance of a software system. The sources of all software components are held on the host machine in a database specially created and maintained by PERSPECTIVE™. A simple command language allows access to the database and source items in a disciplined manner.

Sources can be shared between projects and/or applications with all uses of each item being recorded in the database. Multiple versions of a given source item can be held and the build configuration of any applications' system or component can be obtained by a simple database query.

In summary, PERSPECTIVE™ provides the methodology and the tools to ensure an effective solution to the problems of embedded system software development.