DAVIS, Calif., April 3, 2002 - SoftIntegration, Inc., the leader of scripting technology for ubiquitous computing, today announced the release of Ch Data Acquisition Toolkit for NI-DAQ™. Ch is an embeddable C interpreter. It supports ISO 1990 C standard (C90), major features in C99, C++ classes, POSIX, X/Motif, OpenGL, ODBC, GTK+, CGI, 2D/3D graphical plotting, numerical computing, and shell programming. Ch Data Acquisition (DAQ) Toolkit integrates with National Instruments' NI-DAQ, which is a set of C APIs used to control all of the NI plug-in data acquisition boards for analog I/O, SCXI™ signal conditioning, and RTSI™ multi-board synchronization.

With Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ, all NI-DAQ C programs can readily run without tedious compiling and linking cycles. C programs can readily configure and communicate with all NI multifunction data acquisition products. Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ can be used to increase efficiency for rapid application development and open architecture integration of mechatronic systems. It can especially shorten the time to develop solutions with real-time data acquisition for engineers without extensive VC++ programming experience. It is an ideal environment for research and teaching related to real-time data acquisition in C. Along with the powerful Ch CGI toolkit, Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ can be easily used to deploy Web-based data acquisition for adaptive intelligent mechatronic systems for remote monitoring, control and autonomous motion.

"With Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ, Ch developers can make measurements with absolute accuracy using industry leading E Series data acquisition boards," said Keith Winkeler, Sr. Group Product Manager for Data Acquisition at NI. "This integration of the Ch scripting language environment with NI-DAQ confirms NI's and SoftIntegration's common commitment to provide simple solutions to increase the productivity of engineers and scientists worldwide."

"C/C++ developers have been very impressed with the incredible simplicity of the Ch language environment, and how much more productive they can be when they can use a very high-level language environment. This allows them to avoid lengthy compile/link/execute/debug cycles for application development.," said Dr. Dawn Cheng, General Manager at SoftIntegration. "Now engineers and scientist can perform tasks related to real-time data acquisition with higher levels of productivity with Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ."

Ch DAQ Toolkit for NI-DAQ is available for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Ch Standard Edition is free for academic and non-profit organizations.

About SoftIntegration, Inc.

SoftIntegration, Inc., founded in 1999, is the leader of scripting technology for ubiquitous computing. SoftIntegration provides infrastructure software and services for rapid application development and deployment, scientific numerical computing, embedded scripting, and Web-based software integration. Our flagship product -- Ch® is an embeddable C interpreter. It is the solution for engineers and scientists, Web programmers, software developers, C/C++ beginners and experts, system administrators, real-time programmers, quality analysts, and instructors and professors.

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    SoftIntegration, Inc.
    216 F Street, #68
    Davis, CA 95616
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    info@softintegration.com
    http://www.softintegration.com

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