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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: 

Arm Cortex-A32, Cortex-A35, Cortex-A55, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75 Models Available from Imperas and OVP to Accelerate Embedded Software Development

Oxford, United Kingdom, October 24th, 2017 - Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, announces the availability of models and virtual platforms for the Arm Cortex-A32, Cortex-A35, Cortex-A55, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75 processors, including ARMv8.1 and ARMv8.2 support.

This extends the Imperas Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) processor model library to over 180 models across a spectrum of IP vendors.  Over 50 Arm cores are supported, including Cortex- A, Cortex-R and Cortex-M families.

The comprehensive Imperas virtual platform environment for embedded software development, debug and verification for Arm cores includes Fast Processor Models and Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™), with high-performance simulation, software debug, verification, analysis, and profiling (VAP) tools, and OS (Linux) booting on the virtual platforms.