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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: Virtual Platform product family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2006
Platforms are foundation for software
development
CoWare's new Virtual Platform product family will enable the company to expand into the software development market.
CoWare's new Virtual Platform product family will enable the company to expand into the software development market CoWare Virtual Platform product family supports the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for software development
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Virtual hardware platforms are models of the device hardware and the environment it evolves in, and are suitable for the development and validation of an entire device software stack up to the application level.
Their key characteristics are fast execution speed, scalability, early availability, unprecedented hardware controllability, observability, determinism and easy distribution.
Traditional software development and validation solutions have either been nonrepresentative of the device hardware, too slow, available too late, or have not provided enough hardware controllability and observability.
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.
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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.
"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".
The CoWare Virtual Platform product family comprises two packages.
CoWare Virtual Platform Designer is the first virtual hardware platform creation environment based on SystemC includes a graphical modelling and high performance SystemC environment, an Eclipse-based SystemC IDE, and an automated virtual platform software package generation.
CoWare Virtual Platform is the self-contained, distributable virtual platform software package generated by the CoWare Virtual Plaform 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.
"Our technologies, tools, and expertise in hardware/software codesign have enabled us to provide an optimised and integrated platform-driven ESL design solution for the software development and validation teams", 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".
The CoWare Virtual Platform product family is available today.
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