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Foresight Customer Testimonials

By deans ~ October 15th, 2007. Filed under: Press Releases.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Foresight Customer Testimonials

Foresight users discuss their experiences with the leading system visualization toolset.

Scottsdale, AZ — October 15, 2007 - Foresight Systems M&S (Foresight), a developer of advanced visualization software for the design of complex highly constrained systems is pleased to share testimonials from three defense industry users.

“We have completed our evaluation of v5.3.3p3. Everything looks great! The reduced memory usage (from v5.2.3) is noteworthy - we saw reductions from about 20-40% for the models that we ran. Interestingly, our smaller models ran faster, while the large ones took a little longer (e.g., from 8 hours to 9). Overall, we are pleased that all has checked out and that we are running with the current release. Thank you very much for all of your support - not just on this recent effort, but over the last year or two. As ALWAYS, you have been incredibly responsive and helpful, and extremely pleasant. I’m sure you know what a difference a highly competent tech support staff can make in a successful development effort, and you have always come through in such a professional way - from responding to our “dumb” questions to our more challenging issues. Can’t tell you how much your support is appreciated!” — A Foresight user at Raytheon.

“Foresight v5.4.1 was installed on our system yesterday. Today I started my testing. I did the db_convert of my model from v5.3.3 with no problems. The new model analyzed without error. I fired up makesim, and CoderC ran through with no errors and produced an executable. The executable ran without error and produced good results. I’ve NEVER had a new version of ANY product transition so smoothly. Amazing work on the part of Foresight.” — A Foresight user at Lockheed Martin Corporation.

“I recently have been able to compare our Foresight model results with actual CNI hardware in the lab. The results from the lab are correlating nicely so far. The lab data correlates much better than I would have hoped, actually. I generally worry about uS to uS performance comparisons (since the model cannot be as complex as the actual system). Also, it’s really difficult to get people in the lab to specify all the important parameters of their own tests, get them to drive the hardware the same way we are driving the model, and get everything configured correctly to do a fair “apples to apples” test. Generally they don’t have too much flexibility to set up sophisticated tests. However, we did a fairly high resolution model of our hardware (and software) components, so it tracks rather well when looking at critical latencies.” — A Foresight user working on a Software Defined Radio design at Northrop Grumman.

“We’re extremely gratified to receive such positive feedback regarding the productivity improvements realized as a result of using Foresight’s tools to visualize and optimize systems during the design phase,” said Gerry Allen, Foresight’s CEO. Mr. Allen continued, “We look forward to continuing to develop and supply tools that allow engineers to maximize the results of their efforts.”

About Foresight:

Foresight Systems M&S meets the challenge of building complex highly constrained systems quickly and efficiently. The company’s military grade Resource Aware Modeling and Simulation (RAMS) software works from system requirements to produce a detailed design specification that can be implemented with confidence. These powerful analysis tools allow engineers to look ahead and optimize implementation decisions during system design. Anticipating system tradeoffs early allows designers to manage complexity, provides additional flexibility, compresses product cycles and minimizes execution risk.

The company’s customers represent the leading edge of the communications technology, aerospace and defense industries. Representative users include: Bell Northern Research, Boeing, General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Nokia, Raytheon, Texas Instruments and United Technologies.