SciTech Delivers VBE Test Suite 8.0, Designed
to Simplify Graphic Hardware BIOS Development and Validation
- SciTech
Software provides hardware vendors with a complete test
suite designed to make it more cost effective to ensure
VBE 3.0 compatibility.
Chico,
Calif., July 22, 2002 -- SciTech
Software, Inc. today announced the availability of its latest
graphics hardware tools, SciTech VBE Test Suite 8.0. SciTech
VBE Test Suite contains powerful BIOS validation tools including:
VBE test tools, SciTech VBE Validation Suite, full source
code and the Open Watcom compiler. SciTech's industry leading
tools and extensive knowledge of the VBE 2.0/3.0 specifications
combine to deliver a complete test and validation suite containing
everything a BIOS engineer and QA teams need to create VBE
compliant graphics hardware.
Professional
grade validation tools designed by SciTech Founder and VBE
3.0 principal author, Kendall Bennett make it easier than
ever for QA departments to identify and record potential compatibility
issues and "bubble" them back to the engineering
team for correction. SciTech VBE Test Suite cuts development
costs by helping to create a collaborative development environment
between Engineering and QA which in turn reduces customer
support issues, while ensuring that the VBE 3.0 specification
is fully met in the BIOS prior to shipping.
"SciTech
VBE Test Suite provides graphics hardware vendors with the
tools they need to ensure that their products are fully compliant
with the latest standards," said Kendall Bennett, CEO,
for SciTech Software Inc. "Additionally by utilizing
VBE Test Suite hardware vendors can reduce time to market
while increasing overall hardware compatibility."
SciTech
VBE Test Suite 8.0 contains a powerful scripting system, which
allows QA teams to create custom tests in order to confirm
VBE modes in a more flexible, and time efficient manner. This
flexibility means that QA teams can easily adapt the application
to their own organizational needs. SciTech VBE Test Suite
not only stress tests the underlying BIOS implementation to
ensure that machine registers are correctly preserved across
calls, it also displays screens that can be visually verified
by QA personnel. By visually verifying the results you can
have a higher degree of confidence that your next hardware
release is fully tested and compatible with the VBE 3.0 specification.
For BIOS
engineers, SciTech VBE Test Suite 8.0 provides full source
code and pre-built modules for debugging with the Open Watcom
compiler. By providing source code SciTech VBE Test Suite
helps to avoid the need to interpret the VBE 3.0 specification,
generally recognized as one of the biggest problems with developing
VBE compatible BIOS code. Using the source code provided with
SciTech VBE Test 8.0, BIOS engineers can quickly see how calls
to the BIOS code are strung together to achieve a desired
effect. This information can be invaluable in helping your
BIOS engineers write correct code to implement these functions.
About
SciTech
SciTech Software, Inc. is a leading supplier of PC graphics
utilities, drivers, and tools for the embedded, industrial
and enterprise markets. SciTech’s products allow software
developers to achieve maximum performance from their systems
graphics hardware. SciTech’s products include, SciTech
SNAP Graphics, a fully accelerated binary compatible graphic
device driver solution, SciTech GLDirect, an OpenGL to Direct3D
driver and SciTech MGL, an Open Source, professional graphics
library used to develop some of today’s most popular
software programs. SciTech products support the Windows, Linux,
OS/2, DOS, QNX, and SMX operating systems. Many major software
companies and hardware companies license portions of SciTech’s
technology for incorporation in their products. SciTech is
privately held and the company's web address is http://www.scitechsoft.com
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