Peter Clarke, EE TImes Europe, (03/02/2008 7:00 PM EST)

LONDON — Imperas Ltd., a young company developing multiprocessing development tools, has announced that it has donated technology for an open-source infrastructure to support developers who want to simulate software running on system-on-chip designs. Imperas (Thame, England) is providing some high-level processor models, APIs for building platform verification infrastructure and developing behavioral and processor models, and OVPSim, a reference simulator. These will be downloadable for free from an OVP website or from SourceForge, an open-source code repository. The company has also been pitching its approach around the semiconductor and EDA industries and an initial list of about 20 supporters includes…

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By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor — EDN, 12/18/2007

Over the last couple of years, there’s been a lot of talk in the ESL niche of the EDA community about a small startup called Imperas Design. Since it’s founding a couple of years ago, the company has been releasing only vague details about its product direction to the press but enough information to EDA analyst Gary Smith for him to describe it as having one of the most promising product directions in years. And that’s pretty impressive, considering the company has yet to commercially release its first product. EDN has learned, however, that Imperas will introduce its product early next year, but has had to alter its focus a bit.

Certainly one of the reasons this startup has been raising expectations is because the company is being run by industry veteran Simon Davidmann, who has a track record for being…

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