Other investments were received from Matsushita, OneName Corporation, Singapore Economic Development Board, and Washington Research Foundation. Consystant plans to use the funding to further the development and deployment of its software design and development environment, addressing the needs of software developers for embedded systems, networking devices, personal area networks, wireless devices, and Internet appliances. One of the keys to the success of this architecture is the work being done by the networking software vendors such as Consystant to build products that enhance the development tool capabilities available to Intel's networking equipment customers. The Consystant development environment provides an exciting new way to create, simulate, and debug software applications. The environment allows the description of a system's behavior to be separated from a description of the target-computing environment that implements that behavior.
Developers create reusable software components that can be mapped to different operating systems.
A distributed graphical debugger completes the development environment. Consystant is the kind of company Lucent Venture Partners invests in. The Consystant technology is a revolutionary and productivity-enhancing open standard for software component authoring and software design. After the software system is designed, the Consystant environment automatically generates the source code for the operating system and hardware architecture of choice. The fund, created in 1999, is managed and controlled by Intel.