Imperas is now a part of Synopsys
In this article, Gabe Moretti is challenging us to move Design and Verification closer. Design and Verification are often mentioned in the same sentence but too often they remain disciplines kept apart from each other. The article talks about EDA but brings in the complexity of modern systems including so much software.
There are interesting views from Synopsys and Oski Technology, and Larry Lapides from Imperas discusses the challenge and outlines observations on how developing embedded software will change.
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Five Minutes With… Simon Davidmann, CEO/Founder, Imperas
Simon Davidmann, Founder and CEO of Imperas is a self-described "serial engineer." A what? Well, listen to the five-minute interview and you'll understand what that means.
As a long-time veteran of the EDA industry, Simon and Rich talked about ... click here to read more and listen to the audio interview.
Embedded Software Development with Virtual Platforms
Rome was certainly not built in a day and neither was your next embedded software project. In this week’s Fish Fry, Amelia Dalton of Electronic Engineering Journal takes a closer look at virtual platform-based methodology for embedded software development with Simon Davidmann (CEO - Imperas). Simon and Amelia discuss the advantages of the Open Virtual Platform Consortium. and how virtual platforms can speed up your design process.
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In a recent article in Semiconductor Engineering, Ann Steffora Mutschler states that as designs become part of connected networks, so do the requirements for what’s needed to make it work properly.
Defining a system used to be relatively straightforward. But as systems move onto chips, and as those chips increasingly are connected with applications and security spanning multiple devices, the definition is changing.
This increases the complexity of the design process itself, and it raises questions about how chips and software will be designed and defined in the age of the Internet of Things/Everything. For example, will engineers be developing software-defined hardware, network-defined…
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…
Larry Lapides of Imperas recently posted a guest blog at the Imagination MIPS processor blog site. it discusses topics related to Operating System bring up and how virtual platform and advanced tools can provide signiificant benefits.
Linux has become the general purpose operating system of choice for embedded systems, and is almost always supported for high end SoCs developed by semiconductor vendors. These SoCs now have multicore processors, and run symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) Linux. Most vendors start with the MIPS Linux distribution, then customize it for the specific SoC (requiring device tree changes), including the necessary drivers for the peripherals…
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…
In a recent article in Semiconductor Engineering, Ann Steffora Mutschler explores examples of architectural strategies for getting the best performance out of a power budget.
Virtual platform developer Imperas Software's tools are being used for power estimation, to enable dynamic analysis of the impact of the complete software stack - OS, firmware, applications - on the power consumption of SoCs and systems, according to CEO Simon Davidmann. "We have seen various architectures used by our customers with power constraints. What most of these architectures have in common is heterogeneity: using the right processor for the appropriate task."
He sees the next step in this progression of system architectures as enabling optimized sharing of...
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At the Imagination Technologies Silicon Valley Summit in May 2015 there was a series of presentation and discussions regarding Virtualization, Security and the prpl Foundation.
Imperas is a founding member of the prpl Foundation Security PEG (prpl Engineering Group) and is working to provide solutions to assist electronic product developers to remove risks associated with embedded software development.
Several videos were recorded regarding prpl at the IMG summit - these can be viewed on the prpl youtube channel here.