New CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family Provides Unprecedented Capabilities For Device Software Development
Product Family Enables the Creation, Distribution, and Use of Virtual
Hardware Platforms to Shorten Development Cycles, Improve
Productivity, and Lower Costs
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 27, 2006—
CoWare Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic
system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced today its
new Virtual Platform product family that will enable the company to
expand into the software development market. CoWare Virtual Platform
product family delivers new tools and technologies that support the
creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for
device software development and validation. Virtual hardware platforms
are models of the device hardware and the environment they evolve in,
and are suitable for the development and validation of an entire
device software stack up to the application level. They also enable
electronics companies to engage more effectively with their customers
and ecosystem partners. The solution is integrated with and supports
the CoWare platform-driven ESL strategy.
Traditional software development and validation solutions have
either been non-representative of the device hardware, too slow,
available too late, or have not provided enough hardware
controllability and observability. Virtual hardware platforms provide
fast execution speed, scalability, early availability, unprecedented
hardware controllability, observability, determinism, and easy
distribution. By using virtual hardware platforms, software developers
and development teams can reap the benefits of an earlier start to
device software development and validation, improved productivity, and
lower development costs.
Virtual hardware platforms will facilitate supply chain
interaction because they can be distributed to customers and ecosystem
partners. This results in earlier product feedback and software
development for faster time-to-market and increased return on
investment.
"CoWare Virtual Platform provides an innovative solution for
validating embedded device software before the target hardware is
available," said Matt Volckmann, senior embedded software analyst at
Venture Development Corporation, Natick, Mass. "This new solution puts
CoWare into a position to directly support the device software
development process and deliver value to semiconductor companies and
device manufacturers."
"Working with CoWare and their Virtual Platform has helped us
reduce some of the challenges associated with software simulation,"
said Al Von Ruff, Manager, Simulation Technology, Motorola Mobile
Devices. "By leveraging a system-level, standards-based approach, we
can enjoy highly accurate models and early availability, which can
translate into more cost savings and faster time-to-market."
CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family Includes:
-- CoWare Virtual Platform Designer: the first virtual hardware
platform creation environment based on SystemC includes a
graphical modeling and high performance SystemC environment,
an Eclipse-based SystemC IDE, and automated virtual platform
software package generation.
-- CoWare Virtual Platform: the self-contained, distributable
virtual platform software package generated by the CoWare
Virtual Platform Designer, includes the executable virtual
platform model, the software tools to leverage the unique
capability of the virtual platform, and the scripting and
application programming interface to integrate the virtual
platform in the software development and validation
environment.
"Customer engagements and technology expertise have enabled us to
deliver an optimized and integrated platform-driven ESL design
solution that meets the requirement of the device software development
market," said Marc Serughetti, director of marketing, CoWare. "Our new
solution provides the infrastructure required so that electronic
companies can focus on their core expertise in order to design and
deliver differentiated products to their target markets in a more
reliable and efficient manner."
Availability and Pricing
CoWare Virtual Platform product family is available today. For
pricing information please contact the CoWare sales office
(http://www.coware.com/corporate/offices.php) nearest you. For more
information about CoWare Virtual Platform product family and CoWare's
other products, visit http://www.coware.com. CoWare will be
demonstrating the Virtual Platform product family in Booth 838 at the
Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif., April 4 - 6, 2006.
About CoWare
CoWare is the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic
system-level (ESL) design software and services. CoWare offers a
comprehensive set of ESL tools that enable electronics companies to
"differentiate by design" through the creation of system IP including
embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP algorithms; the
architecture of optimized SoC platforms; hardware/software co-design;
and virtual platforms for software development. The company's
solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC.
CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies
in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and
communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM
(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY), Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq:CDNS),
STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE). CoWare
is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the
world. For more information about CoWare and its products and services
visit http://www.coware.com.
CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
CoWare, Inc.
Marketing Communications
Mindy Palmer, 408-392-8513
Email Contact
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Public Relations for CoWare
Jean Armstrong, 503-672-4680
Email Contact
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