Trace Systems, Inc

"REALLY?? How?"  By having the ability to safely, simply, and securely deliver your upgrade code in a way that is palatable to the customer, using a SYSTEM that automatically delivers your firmware upgrade by email, makes it dead simple for your non-technical end user to perform the upgrade at his own location, protects your firmware from theft or from being programmed into the wrong hardware model, and can lock the delivered firmware to the Serial Number in one specific customer's device.  We call that system:

SUMS is a low cost ($369.95) seamlessly integrated system that can help you easily manage upgrades across your entire product line, even for products that use different processors and have different types of connectivity (USB and Ethernet currently supported).

• No programming needed - ready to use
• No need to recompile your own Main App code to work with our bootloader - use it as is!
• Simple, automated mode for your non-technical End Users
• Powerful Developer Mode for you & your technical and factory users
• PC program looks like you wrote it yourself - customize company name and logo image with NO PC Programming At All.
• Sends your firmware in an encrypted file that protects your intellectual property 
• Automatically collects files together, zips them up into a WinZip archive, customizes a cover letter, and emails it all to your customer!  All in about 20 seconds. 
• Protects against programming your firmware into the wrong device, or an unauthorized device 
• The system grows with your product line - when you develop a product with a different processor, just buy a new bootloader from us for that processor and connectivity type.  Your new bootloader installs right into the SUMS system, ready to work for just those of your products that need it. 
• Serial Number (known to both bootloader Firmware and your Main App Firmware) allows you to charge your customers for new versions or new firmware "personalities" that work in your product. Opens up whole new revenue streams for your company!

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New TCPmaker 1.4.2 works with recently released Microchip TCPIP Stack 5.25.  This new Stack adds support for many new processors and capabilities, including compatibility with other parts of the Microchip Application library.  An important new capability is the use of Mass Storage Devices for storage of TCPmaker's web content.

This new library supports Microchip's latest WiFi library, which you can use to make your TCPmaker device wireless.   Sweet!

Support for New PIC32MX6x and 7x Devices

TCPmaker 1.4.2 also adds a new code generator for important group of new PIC32 devices that have internal Ethernet MAC circuitry: PIC32MX795F512L (used in Microchip's PIC32 Ethernet Starter Kit), PIC32MX795F512H, PIC32MX695F512L, PIC32MX695F512H. 

These new processors are really awesome, and surprisingly inexpensive. 

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That's right!

To celebrate the introduction of our new S.U.M.S. upgrade system, we're offering a 25% discount on ALL Trace Systems Products, good until 6/30/2010.  This is only available for purchases at our main US distributor, microEngineering Labs (which is where the BUY buttons on our own Trace Systems Inc. web site take you).

To get your discount, just enter this "Admin Code" as you make your purchase in the microEngineering Labs store:

    TRACE25

When you click the button to update the purchase amount, you should see your discount applied.  This discount coupon may be used for multiple purchases between now and 6/30/2010.

Please note that a discount like this will be a rare thing!  We don't have any plans to repeat this in the future, so you must act NOW.

We have added a Customer Showcase section to our new web site, where we are showing off all the cool things that people have made with our HIDmaker and TCPmaker development tools.  You can see it at

http://www.tracesystemsinc.com/customer-showcase/customer-showcase.html

In this section, we have set up a free page for each of our users to show off their product, and to drive traffic to their own web site.  We think you'll agree that the contributions we have received already are pretty impressive achievements.

But we've discovered that there's something important missing from this section - YOU!

Click here to learn about your own free Showcase page... >>

Frankly, we admit and agree that the present version of HIDmaker FS is long overdue for an upgrade.  At this very moment, the newest version that we can provide to you is a Beta version we call HIDmaker FS 1.60, which is necessary for users of PICBASIC PRO 2.60.  If you are a PICBASIC PRO user, you should contact Dr. Bob by email for this Beta version.

We want you to know that we ARE working to add support for Microchip's 16-bit and 32-bit USB processors, so that HIDmaker will be able to support all PIC processor sizes, like TCPmaker already can.

We intend to release the product as HIDmaker32, which will contain support for all microchip USB processors of the 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit sizes.

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