November 13, 2003

Certicom is shipping V4 of its Security Builder Crypto toolkit, which includes new Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-validated algorithms, intended to help you build applications and devices that meet U.S. Government regulations. Also new to Security Builder Crypto 4.0 is support for Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, Windows CE.Net 4.0, and Itanium (Linux and Windows) platforms. In all, 30 platforms are targeted. The toolkit also supports SHA-2 and uncompressed point Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) public keys, as well as MD5, RC4, RSA, and AES.
Certicom
5520 Explorer Drive, 4th Floor
Mississauga, ON, L4W 5L1
905-507-4220
http://www.certicom.com/

Rhapsody 5.0 from I-Logix implements the UML 2.0 Final Adopted Specifications and extends it with support for functional methods. Systems engineers and C programmers can create functional block diagrams, including data flows, while remaining inside the UML 2.0 environment. You can also select options to optimize the code size to reduce required ROM and RAM, or to generate code compliant the with the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association's guidelines. In addition, Rhapsody 5.0 features enhanced Sequence Diagrams, Ports, Tags, Free Flowing Activity Graphs, Information Flows, Statechart Inheritance, and Structured Classes. I-Logix
Three Riverside Drive
Andover, MA 01810
978-682-2100
http://www.ilogix.com/

Adept Technology, an industrial robot manufacturer, has released Adept ActiveV+ software, allowing real-time control of Adept robots and motion controllers from native PC languages using Microsoft COM.