Tri-Pacific Software Inc

The story of Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. (TPSI) begins with a group of software development and design engineers working with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to promote Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA), a powerful software engineering method. In 1994, working in conjunction with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, they created the PERTS product, a modeling and prototyping tool which utilizes RMA. The PERTS tool was later re-engineered and upgraded to create the current RapidRMA tool suite. Tri-Pacific was also instrumental in creating the first real-time specification for the Object Management Group (OMG) standard - CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). It was one of the principal authors of the real-time scheduling service specification. A new product was created which implemented this new RT CORBA standard, RapidSched. Tri-Pacific worked with the University of Rhode Island and SPAWAR to create RapidSched which implements a distributed Deadline Monotonic scheduler with advanced resource protocols (DASPCP - Distributed Affected Set Priority Ceiling Protocol). It was also instrumental in creating the first real-time specifications within the OMG for the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the form of the MARTE and later the SPT. TPSI also created a seamless integration with IBM Rational Rhapsody to provide language extensions to the UML and maintain timing analysis information directly in UML model. Tri-Pacific Software leads the industry in real-time and embedded analysis tools. RAPID RMA is now installed in some of the largest commercial and government systems in the world, including Boeing, CSC, The Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitre, Nokia, Northrop Grumman, TRW, and many others.