Embedded Application Localization

Software Localization for the medical device industry often has to deal with applications that are embedded in the hardware equipment. Unlike traditional software that runs on a PC with Windows OS and standard resource file types, embedded applications are often written in a special format to work with 3rd party real-time operating systems that address the unique requirements of specific hardware components. This special background creates extra challenges for embedded software localization because it requires customized localization processes to be adapted in order to properly localize and test embedded applications.

Quality localization for embedded application requires excellent software engineering capabilities in addition to ordinary software localization. For example, many off-the-shelf TM tools do not readily support the special file types for embedded applications. String length checking verifications can also be a challenge without the in-depth knowledge of the real-time OS.

Having the resources and technical know-how to for a variety of 3rd party OS and applications, MedL10N offers complete software localization solutions for embedded applications. MedL10N boasts a highly experienced localization engineering team equipped with in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with different real-time OSes, software utilities, translation tools, development environments and multiple programming languages,. Being technical is an important difference between MedL10N and other translation companies.

• Working knowledge of installation/configuration of real-time OSes and platforms such QNX, Window CE and others,
• Experience with a variety of development environments and programming languages such as C, C++, Java and Linux
• Intimate knowledge of internationalization, Unicode, and multi-byte character issues in software development
• Detailed understanding of database systems, scripting languages, and software graphical interface development
• Creative approach to problem solving

MedL10N software localization capabilities help our clients shorten time-to-market and reduce overall project costs. They also help streamline localization workflow and greatly improve the consistency and quality of the localized applications.