One of the hottest topics in embedded systems today is security and safety. And one of the ways to address security and safety concerns is by using hypervisors and/or secure operating systems, and by specifically adding security into embedded software. To facilitate these techniques, Imagination Technologies added in hardware virtualization instructions – the VZ extensions – to the...

To read the blog, please visit the Imagination Blog Site.

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Comments on Imperas Software, Green Hills Software announcments about how their support with models and tools boost Imagaination's MIPS architecture and move its ecosystem forward.

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With the run up to the Embedded World conference and exhibition in Germany in February, Larry Lapides of Imperas contributed a guest blog for Imagination on the latest OVP Fast Processor models for the new MIPS Warrior range.

The blog talks about several items related to Imperas, OVP and Imagination's MIPS models. It also provides the outline for the Embedded World paper on accelerating simulation using multi-core host PCs and also provides links to other related topics.

To read the blog, please visit the Imagination Blog Site.

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An interesting contributed blog on the changes in the virtual platform space by John Cooley of ESNUG and DeepChip

John Cooley, though focused on the EDA simulation, synthesis, and RTL areas collected some information regarding the recent acquisitions.

There are contributions from:

• Jay Vleeschhouwer of Ticonderoga Securities
• Simon Davidmann of Imperas
• Bill Neifert of Carbon
• Brett Cline of Forte Design
• and several annonymous contributors

To read the full article, please visit the blog on deepchip.com here