American Arium, a privately held corporation, offers its customers many years of experience in the field of microprocessor development and debug tools.

American Automation and Arium Corporation merged and formed American Arium in March of 1991. American Automation, which began its business in 1977, developed expertise in providing engineers with reliable and inexpensive in-circuit emulator tools for the development and debug of embedded microprocessor designs. The in-circuit emulator line called EZ-Pro offered not only the necessary hardware to connect to many different microprocessor targets, but offered many assemblers, linkers, compilers, and debuggers as well.

Arium Corporation had its roots in Integrated Digital Systems, a consulting firm founded in 1977. In 1983, the company officially changed its name to Arium and introduced to the logic analyzer market a very low cost, easy to use, portable logic analyzer, model ML4100. In the course of a few years, the company became the third largest supplier of logic analyzers worldwide.

After the merger in 1991, American Arium partnered with Intel Corporation to develop in-circuit emulation tools to support the Pentium® processor. Utilizing American Arium's expertise in logic analysis and in-circuit emulation, the resulting product line, called LA/ICE, was introduced to the market in 1992.

Today, American Arium is shipping feature-rich families of in-target probes, in-circuit emulators, and debuggers to service the IA-32 and IA-64 development communities. The COMET family of development tools supports the following Intel processors:

Pentium

Pentium Pro

Pentium II

Mobile Pentium II

Pentium II Xeon™

Celeron™

Pentium III

Mobile Pentium III

Pentium III Xeon

Pentium 4

Itanium™