Archelon has developed tools for microcoding and consulted to major companies in the area of micro-architecture design. In particular, the company has pioneered the implementation of standard high level languages on microprogrammed hardware, signal processor chips and other unique architectures.

The company's new user retargetable software development system makes it possible to have a high level language compiler and a full set of software development tools running for any programmable architecture in a matter of weeks. The compiler supports the full ANSI standard for C plus a number of extensions which are particularly useful for microprogrammed architectures and for architectures which contain application-specific hardware.