3am Systems attains Authorized Design Partner status with Microchip Technology Inc, further complimenting its embedded control application capabilities. In the words of 3am CTO Isay Goltman, "During recent design projects in biomedical, automotive and LED lighting, Microchip stood out from the crowd time and time again. We are delighted to be named Authorised Design Partner of Microchip Technology Inc".

Based in Malta, 3am Systems is a joint venture between local and US industry veterans and provides product development, bring-up and support services for embedded, wireline and wireless technologies.

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

LineScope is a software-based solution providing call progress, handshake and data analysis for V.22bis dial-up systems. The product is in late beta and a production release is scheduled for Q3'08.

3am's LineScope enables non-intrusive monitoring of asynchronous and synchronous communications over a telephone line. With powerful diagnostic facilities, it's just the thing for V.22bis modem integrators and dial-up application developers. Engineers in the payment terminal sector will also appreciate the built-in support for FastConnect and SDLC.

3am Systems delivers customised CPT-Master tone generator software to Freescale Semiconductor. Incorporating the World Tone Database, CPT-Master is aimed at telephony developers and telco engineers.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately-held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD).

3am Systems is pleased to announce that Martin Farrugia and John Zammit have joined the company's Board of Advisors, bringing a wealth of experience in human resources, marketing and finance.

Apart from a good excuse to hold a regular 'fenkata', the founders resolved to create an advisory board to provide guidance in the areas of company incorporation, law and IPR, tax and finance, sales and marketing, human resources, and specialist engineering.

3am Systems is now incorporated as a private limited liability company, with Brian Cauchi and Isay Goltman as founding partners.

The founders have extensive international experience in biomedical instrumentation, consumer electronics, industrial controls and the payment terminal sector, and they have worked in R&D with product development teams in the Ukraine, Europe, the United States and South America.

Based in Malta, the company supplies product development and support services for the embedded/wireline/wireless ICT sectors to local, European and international customers.

With CPT-Master, 3am Systems introduces its Master series of tone generators for engineers. The software builds upon our CPT-Generator product and comes with an updated and expanded tone database and with an improved tone generation engine.

3am continues to grow in popularity thanks to upbeat coverage on leading VoIP websites, hot on the heels of referrals from VoIP message boards such as Cisco's NetPro, TrixBox and Voxilla. In July, 3am Systems featured on spanish language website VoIP Exchange. Then in October, it featured on the immensly popular TMCnet website, courtesy of Tom Keating's 'VoIP and Gadgets blog'.

3am's unique resource continues to be the leading reference for many wireline telephony and VoIP specialists around the world when it comes to the A-Z of call progress tones. The website enjoys a healthily expanding subscriber base composed of telephony professionals from several VoIP providers, telecommunications equipment OEMs as well as telephony software vendors.

Thanks to solid growth in the popularity of its wireline telephony resources, 3am Systems is teaming up with leading wireline telephony OEMs and VARs by offering software integration, licensing, bundling and advertising deals.

3am Systems has come a long way since that fateful late night session that started it all. History recalls that the first working build of MkBkFunH.exe was put together in an eighteen hour stretch. The utility, a proprietary preprocessor for embedded C source files, was brought up on 25th June'02 at three in the morning. Four years later, the legacy lives on.

With its online 'World PSTN Tone Database' and related resources, 3am Systems has established itself as the reference for wireline telephony developers working in VoIP, PBX, Phones, Modems and related sectors when it comes down to the A-Z of international call progress tones.

With typical visit lengths of 35 minutes, telephony professionals are finding something useful every time they visit. Testimonials taken from Italian language VoIP forums are particularly enthusiastic:

Thanks to enhanced search technology built into the 'World PSTN Tone Database', visitors are now automatically directed to appropriate content when they are referred from top search engines. Whether it's a search for information on a specific call progress tone, or a search for tones used in a specific country, visitors coming from search engines are now much more likely to find exactly what they are looking for.

Just six months after its release by 3am Systems, SafeNet-UPS Minidriver is proving popular with users and system administrators. The driver, written as a replacement to clunky vendor-supplied applets, provides seamless integration with the built-in UPS management service in Windows 2000 and XP.

Dissatisfied with the quality of related online resources, 3am Systems has drawn on the scattered information available and transformed it into a unified data source, complete with technical information and audio samples.

With a mission to make its embedded systems and wireline telephony know-how globally accessible, 3am Systems has launched its online presence.