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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. …

QuantumLeap parallel simulation accelerator enables virtual platform performance of greater than 16 billion instructions per second, the fastest commercial solution available today

Oxford, United Kingdom, February 4th, 2014 - Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, has added support for models of Imagination Technologies’ MIPS processors to QuantumLeap™, a parallel simulation performance accelerator.

QuantumLeap leverages Imperas’ new synchronization algorithm to provide the fastest virtual platform software execution speed available today on standard, multi-core Personal Computer (PC) host machines.  The Imperas technology - simulation plus processor core…

Parallel synchronization technology augments existing high-performance simulator to accelerate virtual platforms beyond 16,000 MIPS, the fastest commercial solution available today

Oxford, United Kingdom, October 22nd, 2013—Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), the leader in high-performance software simulation, has released QuantumLeap™, a parallel simulation performance accelerator. QuantumLeap leverages a new synchronization algorithm to provide the fastest virtual platform software execution speed available today on standard, multi-core Personal Computer (PC) host machines.

The execution performance of this new technology has been measured on average at 15 times faster than the nearest commercial…

Open source simulation model enables Altera customers to more easily validate and debug Nios II embedded software

San Jose, Calif., October 22nd, 2013—Imperas Software Ltd. (www.imperas.com), founder of the Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) consortium, today announced the availability of the Altera Nios II embedded processor OVP model. Jointly developed by Imperas and Altera, this open source model will enable a high-performance development environment for Nios II embedded software.

The OVP Fast Processor Model of the Nios II may be configured at start-up to match the intended behavior of the actual FPGA component, but will execute significantly faster than real-time. This allows embedded software to be tested…

Kit Includes Modeling Application Note and Four Open Source, Executable Platform Examples Based Upon OVP™ ARM Cortex™ Processor Models With TrustZone Technology

OXFORD, United Kingdom, October 8th, 2013 – Imperas Software Ltd. (www.Imperas.com), a pioneer of advanced embedded software development systems using virtual platforms, today made available a System Modeling Kit designed to simplify the creation of high-performance virtual platforms that incorporate the ARM TrustZone technology.

The System Modeling Kit provides four open source virtual platform reference models, together with an application note and video, to demonstrate best modeling practices for systems based on TrustZone. The kit is designed to accelerate…

Open Virtual Platforms (OVP™) Fast Processor Model Supports the PowerPC 440™, PowerPC 460™, PowerPC 470™ and PowerPC 476™ Variants of the Popular Processor

OXFORD, United Kingdom, September 26, 2013 – Imperas Software, Ltd. has today released its latest OVP Fast Processor Model for the POWER.org architecture. The new Imperas model of the IBM PowerPC 4xx range supports the PowerPC 440, PowerPC 460, PowerPC 470 and PowerPC 476 variants. The model is available as part of the OVP library, allowing for free access to OVP users.

The IBM PowerPC 4xx processor range is widely utilized by many companies today in a range of applications including automotive, compute servers, military and aerospace, wired and wireless communications, and home entertainment.