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Imperas Open Virtual Platforms Accelerate Embedded Software Development for Multi-Core ARM-based Designs

Oxford, United Kingdom, June 8th 2015 - Imperas™ today announces the release of Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) Fast Processor Models for popular ARM® cores: Cortex®-A17, Cortex®-M0, Cortex®-M0+, and Cortex®-M1. Also announced are changes to the terms of licensing of the OVP ARM Models.

New Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) of ARM-based devices are available from Imperas, working together with the M*SDK™ tools, to help accelerate embedded software development, debug and test.  EPKs are virtual platforms (simulation models), including processor models plus peripheral models necessary to boot an operating…

Imperas Technologies Used for FlexTiles Program

Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 June 2015 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, today announced that a virtual platform for the FlexTiles platform is now available, based on Imperas™ and Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) simulators and models. 

The FlexTiles platform is a self-adaptive heterogeneous multicore 3D System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture developed by a consortium of universities, research institutes and commercial companies, with funding from the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. A…

Imperas Extendable Platform Kit Accelerates Development for Recore Many-Core Hardware and Software Program

Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 April 2015 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, announced that Recore Systems has selected Imperas for virtual platform based software development tools.  Recore is building a new many core hardware platform for various applications, including embedded vision.  Recore was able to get started quickly by using an Extendable Platform Kit™ (EPK™) from Imperas. 

The FlexaWare platform (www.flexaware.net), new from Recore Systems…

Founding members of the Security PEG include Broadcom, CUPP Computing, Elliptic Technologies, Ikanos, Imagination Technologies, Imperas Software, Ingenic, Kernkonzept, Lantiq (recently acquired by Intel), Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., Seltech, and others.

In March 2015, the prpl Foundation, an open-source non-profit foundation focused on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures, today announced the formal organization of its Security PEG (prpl Engineering Group). The formation of the Security PEG follows months of intensive planning by a subset of prpl members dedicated to defining an open security framework for deploying secured and authenticated virtualized services in the IoT and…

Imperas Virtual Platform Products Provide Interface to Imagination Codescape Debugger

Oxford, United Kingdom, 23 February 2015 - Imperas™ is releasing the Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) Fast Processor Models for the MIPS Warrior P-class and M-class CPU IP cores from Imagination Technologies.  Example virtual platforms are also being released, as well as support for the cores in the Imperas M*SDK™ advanced software development tools.  In addition, the Imperas M*SDK and M*DEV™ products support the use of the Imagination Codescape Debugger for embedded software debug and development.

The processor core models and example platforms are available from the Open Virtual Platforms website, www.…

This week it was announced that Magillem has been working with Imperas on tools for Virtual Platforms.

Daniel Payne of SemiWiki covered it here at SemiWiki.

The X-Spec tool from Magillem will generate hardware and software code based on specifications, creating System C TLM code and embedded C code. Models come from Imperas using OVP technology.

The full press release can be found here on EDACafe.

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Enabling quick start for developing and testing software

Oxford, United Kingdom, 20 November 2014 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, announced the availability of Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) for MIPS CPU cores from Imagination Technologies.

These EPKs for MIPS, available for download from the Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) website, are designed to provide a base for users to run high-speed simulations of MIPS-based SoCs and platforms on any suitable PC. They are based on the functionality of Imagination’s MIPS FPGA evaluation platforms, enabling anyone to simulate MIPS-based…

Imperas M*SDK used for KVM development supporting MIPS hardware virtualization instructions

Oxford, United Kingdom, June 3rd, 2014 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, announced today that Kyma Systems has been successfully using the Imperas M*SDK™ for virtual platform-based development of hypervisors.  M*SDK enabled porting of the KVM hypervisor to support Imagination Technologies' latest MIPS cores with virtualization extensions.  The OS- and CPU-aware tools included with M*SDK also enabled more comprehensive and faster testing of the hypervisor.     

The KVM hypervisor is included with standard Linux…

Imperas ISS is fastest ARMv8 simulation available

Oxford, United Kingdom, May 6th, 2014 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation and processor core models, has released an Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) for the ARMv8-A architecture.  In addition, Imperas announced its roadmap for products and virtual platforms supporting the ARMv8 family, including having two Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) available by the end of Q2. 

The ARMv8-A architecture currently has two core families, Cortex™-A53 and Cortex-A57.  The ARMv8-A architecture is ARM’s first 64-bit processor architecture, with initial licensees being primarily in the mobile and server market segments. …