Innoveda to Help IBM Customers be First to
Market With PowerPC 440-Based Systems On Chip
Will Integrate IBM PowerPC 440 Bus Interface Models from
Endeavor Intertech Corp. With Its V-CPU Co-Verification Tool
MARLBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2001--Innoveda, Inc. (Nasdaq:INOV),
a leading provider of innovative software and services for the design of
advanced electronic products, today announced it will enhance its V-CPU(TM)
hardware/software co-verification tool with a processor support package
for the IBM(R) PowerPC(R) 440 core. This processor support package will be
linked with VxSim(TM), a complete prototyping and simulation tool from
Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) that is currently available with
V-CPU for early deployment of a System-on-Chip (SoC) HW/SW co-verification
solution.
Through an agreement with Endeavor Intertech, Hillsboro, Ore., Innoveda
will integrate Endeavor's PowerPC 440 bus interface models with V-CPU. The
agreement also applies to the IBM PowerPC 405 core. The processor support
package is scheduled to be available this month, priced at $10,000 in the
United States.
The PowerPC 440 is IBM's latest high-performance CPU core for SoC
applications, providing up to 1000 DMIPS with a superscalar design, while
dissipating less than 2 Watts of power.
Puts Innoveda in Forefront
According to Steven D. Anderson, product marketing manager at Innoveda,
"Availability of this support package will position Innoveda as the
first company to offer a solution for IBM 440 co-verification. IBM
customers developing embedded SoCs using the IBM PowerPC 440 core will be
able get a head start on HW/SW design and integration using the V-CPU
tool, and deliver their end-products faster."
Early Solution
"We have been working closely with Innoveda to provide developers
with an integrated set of tools to develop and test embedded
applications," said Caroline Yao, group manager of partner solutions
for Wind River. "Wind River's VxSim is a comprehensive prototyping
and simulation tool for Tornado(R)/VxWorks(R) applications. By combining
this technology with Innoveda's V-CPU tool, customers have an excellent
early system prototyper to quickly develop reliable applications."
Ideal Tool
According to David N. Glass, president of Endeavor Intertech, "We
partnered with Innoveda because V-CPU is uniquely suited to serve PowerPC
440 system-level designers and the software development community
interested in validating their applications prior to silicon. The
resulting co-design and hardware/software co-verification tool establishes
a level of performance and flexibility that PowerPC 440 core developers
will appreciate."
Innoveda's V-CPU is a high-performance co-verification tool for a
variety of applications including PowerPC-based SoCs. It offers a complete
environment for co-verification of hardware and software, and can be
configured for most standard or custom processors or buses. It includes a
software execution environment that runs embedded system software as if it
were running on the target CPU. A logic simulation environment runs the
representation of the embedded system hardware, responding to bus cycles
initiated by the software. V-CPU is part of Innoveda's comprehensive set
of system-level design tools including Visual Elite(TM), Regent(TM),
eArchitect(TM) and E-SIM(TM). The addition of the IBM 440 PowerPC
processor support package will extend V-CPU capabilities to IBM
customers.
Unique Solution
In February, Wind River Systems and IBM announced support for the
VxWorks RTOS on the IBM PowerPC 440 processor. V-CPU also supports the
VxWorks RTOS through integration with the VxSim "Virtual Target"
provided by Wind River Systems. V-CPU enables software engineers to use
actual Register Transfer Level (RTL) code for hardware instead of stubs,
to develop applications that run on VxSim.
Anderson added, "Customers using the IBM PowerPC 440 core and the
VxWorks RTOS will be able to start their co-design work using the VxSim
Virtual Target. The new 440 processor support package will link VxSim to a
hardware simulator for true co-development of 440 PowerPC-based SoCs.
Since V-CPU has the implicit access capability, these applications will
need minimal porting to move to the final target SoC."
About Endeavor Intertech Corporation
Endeavor Intertech specializes in high-performance processor models,
co-simulation interfaces and tools for hardware and software verification.
Endeavor Intertech has been in the business of developing EDA tools and
models since 1997, and has quietly established itself as an innovative
solution provider for its EDA and processor design customers. Endeavor
creates models for DSP, VLIW, RISC, and other embedded cores and
processors. For more information on Endeavor Intertech's Precyse(TM) and
CoOperate(TM) models and other hardware/software verification tools,
please contact your Endeavor Intertech representative at info@endeav.com,
or 1-503-628-6200 x100. Additional information is available on the web at
http://www.endeav.com
About Wind River
Wind River, www.windriver.com, is a worldwide leader in embedded
software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River
provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and
advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet,
telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital
consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals,
automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense
markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think(TM). Founded in 1983, Wind
River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen
countries worldwide.
About Innoveda
Innoveda, Inc. (Nasdaq:INOV)
is a leading provider of innovative software and services that help
engineers visualize, design and build advanced electronic systems for
companies participating in the telecommunications, transportation,
computers and consumer electronics markets. The company enjoys a rich
heritage of technical innovation from the merger of Viewlogic Systems,
Inc. and Summit Design, Inc. that formed Innoveda, and the subsequent
merger of Innoveda and PADS Software, Inc. These unions form the
foundation of Innoveda's comprehensive electronic product solutions for
system-level design, design capture, board design and electromechanical
design. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Innoveda has offices worldwide.
Additional information can be found at: http://www.innoveda.com/
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integrate its business combinations, recent economic uncertainty, weakness
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industry, the failure of Innoveda's quarterly results to meet market
expectations, the impact of financial charges related to business
combinations, the intense competition Innoveda faces, Innoveda's ability
to develop new products, and the other risks described in Innoveda's
annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2000 as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2001 and
the other public filings made by Innoveda with the SEC, which factors are
incorporated herein by reference.
Note to Editors: Innoveda, V-CPU, Visual Elite, Regent, eArchitect and
E-SIM are trademarks of Innoveda, Inc. IBM and PowerPC are registered
trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Precyse and
CoOperate are trademarks of Endeavor Intertech Corporation. All other
trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
CONTACT: Innoveda (North America)
Ed Canty
508.303.5291
ecanty@innoveda.com
or
Innoveda (North America)
Sarah Miller
508.303.5254
smiller@innoveda.com
or
Innoveda (Europe/Middle East)
Peter van der Sluijs
+44 1442 879222
peterv@neesham.co.uk
or
Innoveda (Asia Pacific)
Junko Kaneko
03(3364)5531
junko@e-e.co.jp
