Embedded Technology 2006 (ET2006)

Embedded Technology 2006

I went to the exhibition show "Embedded Technology 2006 (ET2006)" in Yokohama, Japan.
I am a visitor at this time of ET2006, although I was a exhibitor in EA2005 of the last year.

Mr. Kouno, the president of SSJ

I had gone to a SSJ booth, which is small section among three white walls. Though Mr. Kouno and I keep contact as each a tool vender and a customer by mail and BBS, we met directly for the first time. My first impression was that Mr. Kouno was a slim and tall man.
He showed me demonstrations of EA and its add-in product, MDG Link. I had been misunderstanding about the function which generates sequence diagram by debug trace; I had thought that not EA but the MDG Link provided the function. But Mr. Kouno taught to me that is wrong. Actually, EA without MDG Link can use the function in Java 1.4 or Java 5.

Enterprice Architect 7.0

Then, I saw two new functions of EA7.0, which is special prereleased version of EA for Japanese ET2006 show only. Mr. Kouno said that SS in Australia built the special version for Japanese users because its market is strong. I will introduce a brief of the functions to you following.
The first is renewal of Timing Diagram. The diagram can edit timings by dragging mouse. And, the diagram can also swap each timing lane by mouse operations. These are powerful on Timing design.
The next is conversion between Statement Diagram and statement matrix. The diagram can convert to statement matrix such as other matrix of EA. The matrix can make check leaks of design on statement changes and event triggers be easier.
Hence he asked me issues or problems on the two functions, thus, I proposed the matrix can convert to Excel's object (or CSV), because most of Japanese clients require documents written by Microsoft Word or Excel only. The clients, who perhaps do not know UML, will want to modify the matrix in Word documents.
However, the current EA7.0 generates the matrix into Word documents as bitmap objects. I said that it is not good, and Mr. Kouno agreed with my opinions. He said that he will tell the opinion as one of requirement to developers of SS.