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News Release from: Perforce Software | Subject: Perforce 2006.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 January 2007
Configuration management for embedded
software
Perforce Software will be presenting the latest version of Perforce, its fast software configuration management (SCM) system, on Stand 11-406 at Embedded World 2007.
Perforce Software will be presenting the latest version of Perforce, its fast software configuration management (SCM) system, on Stand 11-406 at Embedded World 2007 As a management solution for the versioning, administration and control of development files with functions for branching and merging development paths, Perforce underpins the work of distributed teams developing hardware, software and firmware
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Perforce Software has unveiled the development architecture that is enabling hardware and software design companies to reduce time to market and deliver highly integrated products.
Concurrent development is key for nVidia
All nVidia's design and development work, both hardware and software, is conducted within its SCM environment.
The result is a significant increase in the productivity and quality of development processes.
Perforce Software's customer base includes renowned providers of embedded systems, such as National Instruments, Nvidia, Palm, Qualcomm, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Symbian and Symantec.
The Perforce SCM system versions and manages the development of all digital assets including source code, binary files, documents, and graphics.
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Magic4 has deployed Perforce's software configuration management system to maintain and develop its extensive product range, along with the unique customisation requirements of its clients.
In today's software development world, the use of SCM solutions is standard practice - more than 200,000 developers in about 4000 organisations worldwide use Perforce.
However, many development departments of embedded systems manufacturers either work with an obsolete SCM solution, or none at all.
They therefore miss out on powerful features in SCM systems including the concurrent development of hardware, firmware and software; branching and merging of entire development paths; scalability for globally-distributed teams, and atomic change transactions that ensure that simultaneous changes to groups of files are applied consistently as a single event.
These functions can significantly increase the efficiency and quality of embedded systems development - and they are also the distinctive product strengths of Perforce.
Perforce supports all types of electronic formats of a company's intellectual property.
In Perforce, the indirect communication between all those involved in the development of intellectual assets is of critical importance.
With its ability to support an organisation's chosen development process, and its metadata management and reporting functions, Perforce drastically reduces unnecessary checkbacks between staff members, misunderstandings, and the number of team meetings.
Coupled with its support for highly distributed, large-scale development teams, Perforce has delivered considerable reductions in development times for many of its customers.
For instance, Nvidia Corporation uses an SCM system not only to manage its software development, but also to manage chip designs and provide change control for critical documents company-wide.
The system is in regular use by 1700 users - over 85% of the company's employees - and supports a 1Tbyte repository running on a 4Tbyte SAN.
At Embedded World 2007, Perforce Software will be presenting the latest version, Perforce 2006.2.
Release 2006.2 includes an enhanced version of the Perforce server and new features to several client tools.
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