FPT is a powerful suite of tools for writing, maintaining and migrating Fortran programs. It is used in many of the world's leading aerospace and high technology companies for:

Analysing Code

	Quality Assurance	FPT detects errors not normally detected by compilers and linkers. It can guarantee that code is free of many classes of error.
	Report Generation	Reports for program documentation include the symbol table collated across all sub-programs, COMMON block listings in address order, the program call tree and the argument and shared memory interfaces of sub-programs.

Re-engineering Code

	Migration/Porting	FPT is used to migrate code from VMS and from Gould-SEL MPX to Linux, Unix or Win32. Almost all non-standard constructs are automatically converted to portable code.
	Error Correction	FPT can correct many errors automatically, and document the changes it has made.
	Standardisation	FPT reformats code to a user's chosen style. It can insert declarations and re-program control constructs to conform to a house standard.
	Software Engineering	FPT can automatically generate an interactive and command file control system for a program. It can instrument code to automate regression testing.
	Optimization/Optimisation	FPT can expand sub-programs in-line and unwind loops to optimize code to speed up execution.
	Security	If required, FPT can protect source code by making it unintelligible, while preserving its integrity as compilable Fortran.

Using FPT

	User interfaces	FPT troubleshoots and debugs code interactively or runs in batch mode as part of a QA or build procedure.
	Hosts Supported	The supported hosts include Linux, Windows NT, 9x and 2000, VMS, DEC Unix, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX and Solaris.
	Documentation	The documentation is available on-line in Adobe Acrobat 4 format. The Tutorial Guide provides an introduction for the user's first use of FPT on his or her own programs. The Reference Manual contains the installation procedures, and a detailed description of all FPT commands. The User's Guide describes the way in which FPT may be used to achieve specific objectives, such as QA auditing and migration of code between platforms.

FPT Downloads

FPT, with a shareware and evaluation licence, may be downloaded from this site. The downloadable version may be used freely to reformat code and to carry out some of the systematic changes and analyses.

The FPT documentation may be downloaded. Printed copies are supplied to supported customers and are available from SimCon and its resellers.

Users with current software support contracts should use this site to update their installations.