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Nov.1973 Founded TESCO Co., Ltd.
Jun.1980 Developed a substation control system for TEPCO.
May.1982 Developed a consolidated automation system of electricity power station for TEPCO.
Jul.1985 Capital increase 20 million (JPY).
Dec.1989 Founded CATS Co., Ltd as a subsidiary of TESCO.
Apr.1990 Released a CASE tool for embedded software development "ZIPC Ver.1.0".
Oct.1991 Start Distributing VME IC Card memory board "CVME-ICM1".
Sep.1995 Released "ZIPC Ver.4.0w" for Windows operating system.
Nov.1995 Start Distributing ARCNET analyzer "HSDA-ARC".
Apr.2000 Start Distributing "ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation One) tool".
Mar.2000 TESCO and CATS merged, company named CATS Co., Ltd.
Sep.2000 Capital increase to 132 million (JPY).
Dec.2000 ZIPC ver. 6.0 wins prize from Kanagawa pref.
Nov.2001 Released object oriented CASE tool "Konesa-RealTime".
Jan.2002 Capital increase to 228 million (JPY).
Jul.2002 Released ARCNET analyzer "ABS-10".
Aug.2002 Released operation screen design tool "Drawrial Ver.1.0".
Released Logic analyzer with ROM emulator "EMUSE-G".
Nov.2002 Established UML for SoC Forum with Rational Software (IBM) and Fujitsu Inc.
May.2003 Released system LSI design tool "XModelink SystemC Debugger".
Released automated test path generation tool "Perfect Pass".
Mar.2004 Released "XModelink SoC Modeler".
Aug.2004 Start Distributing ARCNET analyzer "ABL-10" Series.
May.2005 Released "Drawrial Ver.2.0".
Apr.2005 Released "ZIPC Ver.9.0".
Released "ZIPC++".
Jun.2005 Hardware Division Date of acquisition of "ISO 9001:2000/JIS Q 9001:2000".
Nov.2005 Capital increase 308 million(JPY).
Apr.2007 Founded CATS Embedded Software Laboratory(CESL).
Founded CATS Advanced Laboratory (CAL).
Jul.2007 Released "ZIPC Ver.9.1".
Aug.2007 Hardware Division Date of acquisition of "ISO 14001".
Feb.2008 Released "Drawrial Ver.3.0".
Apr.2008 Hardware Division changed division name to "System Division".
Apr.2010 Capital tie-up with NTT DATA MSE Corp. (Joined NTT DATA Group)
Capital increase to 368 million (JPY).
May.2010 Elected to "The Okinawa New Industry Creation Research & Development Support Business"
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