QNX Software Systems, a provider of standards-based software platforms for embedded design and a founding member of the Eclipse consortium, has introduced its latest update to the QNX Momentics development suite, based on new versions of the Eclipse framework and the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) code base.

Changes to the QNX Momentics development suite include a series of dramatic enhancements to the user interface, responsiveness, functionality, and reliability of the suite's Integrated Development Environment (IDE). QNX's Eclipse-based plug-in tools have also been augmented, with better interrupt- handling capabilities for the QNX system profiler, and deeper traceback and leak detection in the memory analysis tools for advanced debugging.

Unlike the generic and late-to-market Eclipse offerings from competitors such as Wind River, the latest release of the QNX Momentics development suite Professional Edition takes Eclipse-based development for embedded projects to a new level. The tight integration between the industry's highest ranked realtime operating system, the QNX Neutrino RTOS, and the QNX Momentics tool suite offers the undisputed best optimizations for faster development, error detection, and code optimization.

QNX also offers as part of its standard commercial product its own customized Eclipse plug-ins, such as a code "dietician" that reduces memory footprint by eliminating redundant or inefficient code, and an application profiler that pinpoints problem algorithms and identifies functions needing optimization.