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News Release from: Transitive | Subject: Dynamite A/M
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2001
Software makes MIPS a synthetic ARM
The latest version of Dynamite from Transitive Technologies allows software written for ARM-based platforms to run on the Alchemy's family MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms.
Transitive Technologies and Alchemy Semiconductor are working to enable software written for ARM-based platforms to run on the Alchemy's family of high-performance, low-power MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms The Transitive Technologies' Dynamite software complements Alchemy's MIPS strategy, which will expand Alchemy's served markets by eliminating customer software constraints
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Transitive's goal is to enable OEMs to use the best processor available, which is why we collaborated with Alchemy.
We believe their high performance, low power SoC technology is one of the best in its class for mobile computer devices", said John Graham, president and CEO of Transitive Technologies.
"Alchemy is primarily targeting new designs and MIPS coded legacy designs.
By working together, we are opening the door for Alchemy's powerful MIPS-based processors to a market that predominantly uses ARM CPU cores by eliminating timely software porting and optimisation requirements.
This capability will enable a large body of ARM code to run on Alchemy processors and ride Alchemy's superior power/performance roadmap.
This gives users a broader choice of CPUs to choose from without the usual software barrier constraints".
"Transitive's Dynamite A/M allows Alchemy to penetrate designs which have previously used ARM processors.
By translating ARM code into MIPS code, customers can use their legacy application code while benefiting from Alchemy's very high performance and low power unmatched in the market by any other single-chip SoC available today", said Jim Moore, President and CEO of Alchemy Semiconductors.
"We see a lot interest from our customers, and we will continue working with Transitive to expand the code base available to our customers".
The current implementation of Dynamite A/M runs on a Linux operating system.
The company plans to develop future versions of Dynamite A/M next year, supporting WinCE as well as other relevant operating systems.
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