Integrated Systems Inc.

Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI)

Industry	Software
Founded	1981;45 years ago (1981) in California, United States
Founder	Naren Gupta
Defunct	2000;26 years ago (2000)
Fate	Acquired by Wind River Systems and ultimately by Intel
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California , USA
Products	operating systems, control design software

Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) was an embedded software company ^[1] founded by Naren Gupta in 1980/1981. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Summit Partners invested in 1987, ^[5] the company listed in 1990, and it was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000. ^{[6] [5] [7]}

Naren Gupta served as President/CEO of ISI until 1994, and as its chairman until the company was bought by their competitor Wind River Systems in February 2000. Later he served as vice-chairman and CEO of Wind River Systems.

Products

The company's main products were:

• MATRIX_x, introduced in 1983, ^[8] a control engineering (computer aided control system design or CACSD) tool with components including XMath (an extended MATLAB-like language) and SystemBuilder for graphical editing of block diagrams. ^[9] After the merger with Wind River the product was licensed to MathWorks, but after an anti-trust action, ^{[10] [11]} it was sold to National Instruments. In 2018, National Instruments placed MATRIX_x into a five-year end-of-life phase, with no further support beyond 30 June 2023. ^[12]
• pSOS, a real-time operating system for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor family acquired from Software Components Group (SCG) for US$20 million ^[2] in 1991.
• FlexOS, a continuation of Digital Research's Concurrent DOS 286 and Concurrent DOS 68K, a modular multiuser multitasking real-time operating system (RTOS) for Motorola 68000 as well as for Intel 186, 286 and 386 microprocessors designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets; acquired from Novell for US$3 million in July 1994. ^[13] The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum, and shares representing 2% of the company.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. Kline, David (1996-10-01). "The Embedded Internet". Wired . ISSN   1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
2. Churbuck, David (1998-09-23) [1994-11-24]. "The Bill Gates of dishwashers". Forbes . Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
3. Walsh, Elizabeth T., ed. (1995). "Integrated Systems Inc.". The Corporate Directory of US Public Companies - Company Profiles and Indexes. Vol. 1995 (illustrated ed.). San Mateo, California, USA: Walker's Western Research / Springer. p. 910. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-13890-6. ISBN   1-349-13890-8 . Retrieved 2022-05-30. (2664 pages)
4. Smith, Henrietta M.; Hirahara, Naomi (2003). "Vinita Gupta". Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders. Distinguished Asian Americans series (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 67–69 [68–69]. ISBN   1-57356344-7. (242 pages)
5. "Integrated Systems". Summit Partners. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
6. "Naren Gupta, Co-founder, Nexus Venture Partners". Indiaspora. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
7. "Wind River Agrees to Acquire Integrated Systems in Stock Deal". The Wall Street Journal . Alameda, California, USA: Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 1999-10-22. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
8. Gupta, Naren; Groshans, Dan; Houtchens, Steve P. (1993). "16. MATRIX_x". In Linkens, Derek A. (ed.). CAD for Control Systems. CRC Press. p. 178. ISBN   978-1-00306714-6.
9. Keller, John (1997-09-01). "Boeing McDonnell standardizes on ISI software engineering tools". www.militaryaerospace.com. Sunnyvale, California, USA. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
10. Antitrust Division (2003-01-23). "Public Comments and Response on Proposed Final Judgment in United States of America v. The MathWorks, Inc. and Wind River Systems, Inc". The Federal Register - the Daily Journal of the United States Government. United States Government. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
11. "Judge approves the MathWorks/Wind River settlement: The MathWorks and Wind River Agree to Sell MATRIXx Assets to National Instruments Corp". Department of Justice. 2003-03-03. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
12. Falcon, Jeannie (2021-03-12) [2018-06-21]. "MATRIXx Software Entering Five Year EOL Phase - Schedule and Migration Options". MATRIXX. National Instruments. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
13. "pSOSystem and the NEST Development Environment - Designing Embedded Applications with NetWare Connectivity" (White paper). Integrated Systems, Inc. 1998. Archived from the original on 1998-02-19.

Further reading

• Labate, John (1994-12-26). "Integrated Systems is broadening the applications for its sophisticated embedded software — and with them, the customer base". Companies To Watch. Fortune . Vol. 130, no. 13. pp. 219–. ISSN   0015-8259.
• Schmidt, Michael (ed.), (Analysis), Mabon Securities {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Rao, Srikumar S. (1995-05-09). "Invisible Computers". Financial World . ISSN   0015-2064.
• "Wind River to buy No. 2 RTOS player". News. EDN . 1999-10-22. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 December 1996)