Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) was an

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company founded by

Naren Gupta Narendra K. Gupta (September 30, 1948December 25, 2021) was an Indian-American venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. He founded the investment company Nexus Venture Partners, as well as various other investment and software firms. ...

in 1980/1981.

Summit Partners Summit Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries. Background Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Roe St ...

invested in 1987, the company listed in 1990, and it was acquired by

Wind River Systems Wind River Systems, also known as Wind River (trademarked as Wndrvr), is an Alameda, California–based company, subsidiary of Aptiv PLC. The company develops embedded system and cloud software consisting of real-time operating systems software, ...

in 2000.

served as President/CEO of ISI until 1994, and as its chairman until the company was bought by their competitor

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, a

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(computer aided control system design or CACSD) tool with components including XMath (an extended

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-like language) and SystemBuilder for graphical editing of block diagrams. After the merger with Wind River the product was licensed to

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, but after an anti-trust action, it was sold to

National Instruments National Instruments Corporation, doing business as NI, is an American multinational company with international operation. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. Comm ...

. In 2018, National Instruments placed MATRIX_x into a five-year end-of-life phase, with no further support beyond 30 June 2023. *

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, a real-time operating system for the

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microprocessor family acquired from Software Components Group (SCG) for million in 1991. *

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, a continuation of

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and

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, a modular multiuser multitasking

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(RTOS) for Motorola 68000 as well as for

Intel 186 The Intel 80186, also known as the iAPX 186, or just 186, is a microprocessor and microcontroller introduced in 1982. It was based on the Intel 8086 and, like it, had a 16-bit external data bus multiplexed with a 20-bit address bus. The 801 ...

, 286 and

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microprocessors designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets; acquired from

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for million in July 1994. The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum, and shares representing 2% of the company.

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* {{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961228062637/http://isi.com/, title=Official website, date=December 28, 1996 1981 establishments in California 2000 disestablishments in California 2000 mergers and acquisitions Defunct software companies of the United States Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Software companies established in 1981 Software companies disestablished in 2000

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