GAO Introduces a Comprehensive Suite of ARM Development Tools

Toronto, Canada - Apr. 25, 2005 - GAO Research Inc., a leading provider of embedded communication software, today announced the launch of their new line up of hardware and software development tools for the ARM platform. GAO ARM Development Tools offers an Independent Development Environment (IDE) software, standard or enhanced parallel-JTAG ARM emulators, a high speed USB/Ethernet-JTAG ARM emulator, a Flash Programmer software, and several different evaluation boards based on either the ARM7 or the ARM9 core. GAO ARM Development Suites provides a complete solution to embedded ARM development by bundling the versatile IDE and Flash Programmer software, and one of three high performance ARM emulators.

"The ARM architecture is amongst the most widely deployed microprocessor cores in today's embedded market. We see a demand for ARM-based development tools which are highly capable, yet affordable." said Dr. Frank Gao, president of GAO Research Inc. "Our Integrated Development Environment for ARM provides an easy-to-use interface for developers to create, run, and debug ARM-based applications. Our ARM Development Tools Suite provides a complete solution for today's embedded development engineers."

As the main component of GAO's ARM Development Suites, GAO Integrated Development Environment provides a simple, yet versatile GUI and tools for creating applications for the ARM architecture. It facilitates managing and building projects, establishing and managing host-target communications, running, and debugging applications. GAO IDE for ARM runs under Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and above. It supports ANSI C as well as ARM assembly language. For more information on the products, please visit www.GaoResearch.com.

About GAO Research Inc.

GAO Research Inc. is the leading provider of embedded communications software for telecommunications, semiconductor, and electronic companies worldwide. GAO offers V.92, V.90 and all fallbacks soft-modems, G3 fax modem software, relay software, speech codecs, VFoIP and telephony software on the broadest range of DSPs and microprocessors. Serving industry leaders since 1992, in addition to superior software GAO provides unparalleled technical support, extensive DSP expertise, and state-of-the-art testing facilities.