Triacon becomes distributor for LDRA

Triacon Devtools and LDRA Ltd., a UK company based in the North West of England, have today announced a distribution contract. It covers the distribution of LDRA's Testbed tool suite from the English manufacturer for Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.

Through this distribution contract Triacon and LDRA are responding to demands, particularly from the automotive industry, to provide a set of comprehensive development tools specifically designed for their types of systems but which will also meet the needs of the aerospace and other safety critical industries. In these sectors manufacturers strive to align, as far as is possible, the different tools used in the different elements of the development process for an embedded system.

Triacon has searched for a tool that can match the requirements from the test and specification market and found LDRA as the best alternative. The collaboration between iSystem and LDRA made this happen. Triacon worked in the area of software and hardware development to help the end-user with the integration of their software and hardware, whilst LDRA concentrated on the automation of code analysis and software testing.


The primary benefit for developers of embedded systems that comes from the co-operation between these companies is an automated method of performing dynamic code analysis and unit testing in the target system environment through the host testing integration with the emulation and debug technology.

In addition the LDRA tool suite is able to perform Static Code Analysis, Design and Quality Reviews as well as Requirements Tracking and Inspection against standards such as MISRA C, MISRA C: 2004*, RTCA/DO-178B**. This is one of the most comprehensive tool suites currently available on the market. Source code written in C, C++ as well as Ada 83 and 95 is supported.

Ian Hennell, Operations Director of LDRA Ltd., said about the new partnership: “With the integration of the iSYSTEM hardware and software into the LDRA tool suite we have produced a complete test automation solution for a multiplicity of micro-controller developments. It is interesting that the co-operation of both companies on seeing the same requirements from different markets came to fruition very quickly. An important step forward in the development of reliable and safe embedded software has been made possible for our existing and future customers.”

“Getting this distribution contract with a company who are market leaders in software analysis and test techniques and the emulator tools from iSystem that integrates the two markets marked a huge step for Triacon along the path towards a completely integrated solution for embedded system developers.” added Jan Lundgren CEO of Triacon.

LDRA Testbed provides powerful analysis facilities which may be applied in the two main testing domains of Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis.

Static Analysis analyses the code and provides an understanding of the code structure.
Dynamic Analysis involves execution with test data, through an instrumented version of the source code, to pin point defects at run time.