News & Press Articles

Imperas Extends Industry-Leading Growth with New Marketing VP, to Expand Strategic Presence in IoT, Automotive, Security and RISC-V Applications

Oxford, United Kingdom, March 6, 2018 - Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance virtual platforms and software simulation, today announced the appointment of Kevin McDermott as vice president of marketing. His charter includes strategic planning, high-value market segmentation and analysis for penetration and sales acceleration, as well as product marketing, pricing and packaging, demand generation, ecosystem partnerships, and overseeing corporate communications and analyst relations.

"Imperas has enjoyed great growth in the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, security and RISC-V application markets," said Simon Davidmann, Imperas president and CEO. "We are very pleased to have Kevin join our company. His experience and successful track record will help us expand to our next stage of development, and understand, address, and solve our customers' critical issues."

RISC-V Community Gets a Turnkey Software Solution Via Ashling/ Imperas Alliance

Embedded World 2018, Nuremburg, Germany–February 26, 2018.  Ashling Systems (a subsidiary of the NeST Group) and Imperas Software today announced a partnership to provide integrated tools and solutions for RISC-V software development. The technology aspects of this alliance include the integration of Imperas’ high-performance virtual platforms, simulation engines and models into Ashling’s own RiscFree™ IDE and tools offering. On the business side, Ashling will promote, sell and support this new, comprehensive, turnkey solution spanning the solutions of both companies.

As leaders in the RISC-V initiative, both companies believe that the market demands an expanded ecosystem, a turnkey solution, and one-stop shopping for RISC-V development tools. Ashling is taking the lead in promoting and selling its RiscFree™ IDE integrated solution for RISC-V software development, debug and modeling.

Imperas Demonstrates Virtual Prototyping Solutions for RISC-V Designs; Presents Papers on Virtual Platforms

OXFORD, United Kingdom, February 13, 2018 — Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, will participate in the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2018 with presentations and demos, featuring technology to accelerate embedded software development and test.

Imperas will demonstrate virtual platforms solutions as part of the RISC-V Foundation booth (3A-419) at Embedded World, which will also feature two papers co-authored by Imperas:

Models, Simulator and Tools Accelerate RISC-V Processor Development

Oxford, United Kingdom, November 29th, 2017 - Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, today announced the release of its new RISC-V Processor Developer Suite™.  The RISC-V Processor Developer Suite contains the models and tools necessary to validate and verify the functionality of a RISC-V processor.  It also enables the early estimation of timing performance and power consumption for the processor. 

Processor developers need models and tools to achieve the objectives of conformance, functionality verification and performance estimation.  Also, given the open nature of the RISC-V architecture, the models need to be easily extendable to accommodate changes as the specific processor evolves. These models and tools also need to work in larger platforms and environments, providing professional software development, debug and test solutions to the user community. 

The Imperas RISC-V Processor Developer Suite delivers commercially supported models, the fastest software simulator and a suite of tools: