MetaLink is unmatched in four key area:
- Expertise
- Innovation
- Support
- Focus
Expertise
We are the 8051 experts - we know more about the 8051 than any
other emulator company. We know the 8051 inside and out. Our
engineers have been working on and with the 8051 since 1979 and have
designed 8051 chips, software, systems and emulators. No other
emulator company has this depth of 8051 knowledge. Even 8051
semiconductor companies ask for our advice on 8051 issues.
We use our expertise to design the most
accurate and transparent 8051 emulators on the market today. The
8051 has many quirks that very few people know about, but are important
when you want your emulator to match exactly how the chip operates.
We take all these quirks into account when we design our emulators.
As a result you are more productive debugging and testing your application
with a MetaLink emulator.
Innovation
We have an unparalleled record of
innovation in the 8051 emulator marketplace. From providing the
first PC-based 8051 emulators in 1985 to patented technologies licensed to
every major 8051 semiconductor company and emulation company. The
8051 emulator market is built around MetaLink's technologies.
With our intimate knowledge of the 8051
silicon and being the inventor of the 8051 emulation technologies, we have
a distinct advantage when it comes to developing emulators for new 8051
devices - it takes us a fraction of the time and resources that it takes
other emulator companies. This results in a huge savings in our
development costs, which allows us to aggressively price our
emulators. You will find that our emulators are always priced less than the competition
for comparable features - that is the advantage of innovation.
Support
Our support team is staffed by the very
same engineers who have designed and built the actual emulator you are
using. It's an expensive way of handling technical support, but we
have found that it gets our customer's questions and problems answered
quickly and correctly.
When you have a question, who better to
answer it than the actual engineers that have designed the emulator you
you're using. Other 8051 companies pass your questions off to their
"technical support staff", who in many cases are learning how to
use the emulator just like you - and we all know what that kind of tech
support is like.
Our technical support often ends up being
more like a free consulting service - where we solve customer problems
that have absolutely nothing to do with the emulator. We've found
compiler bugs and chip bugs. We've found coding problems, timing
problems, logic design problems, wiring and PCB fabrication problems for
our customers in their applications. This level of support has saved
our customers an enormous amount of time and effort.
Focus
We are dedicated exclusively to the
8051. The only emulators we design and build are 8051
emulators. For most other companies, supporting the 8051 is only an
afterthought. They try to shoehorn the very unique 8051 architecture
into their standard emulator platforms. Not us - we design all our
emulators from the ground up specifically for the 8051.
All we think about, talk about and work on
are 8051's and 8051 emulators. This intense commitment to the 8051
shows in the quality of our products and our support.
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