ACE Announces CoSy Support for Windows Compiler Development.NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999--ACE Associated Compiler Experts (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) today announced a new release of its CoSy(R) compiler development platform that supports the generation of Windows(R) NT based compilers. This allows compiler developers to take advantage of CoSy's superior code generation features and to port their compilers easily across versions of the Windows operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . With the increasing use of PC based systems for software development, particularly in the area of embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. programming, there is a very real need for highly efficient optimizing compilers that run under Windows. "In the embedded system marketplace it is quite common to find small teams of programmers developing software on PC based systems running Windows," said Marco Roodzant, vice president of marketing and sales at ACE. "As a result more compiler companies are scheduling Windows compilers into their product portfolios. This new version of CoSy enables the use of standard Microsoft Visual C++ compilers to generate efficient CoSy compilers for Win32 platforms." In addition to today's introduction of Windows as a target platform, CoSy already supports compiler development for Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Linux machines. Its language support includes C, DSP-C, Java and Fortran, while its rich set of optimizers and code generators, and its highly flexible architecture description language An Architecture Description Language (ADL) is a computer language used to describe software and/or system architectures. This means in case of technical architecture, the architecture must be communicated to software developers. allow developers to produce high performance compilers for a wide range of target processors. CoSy is particularly good at generating compilers for highly parallel architectures such as VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) A CPU architecture that reads a group of instructions and executes them at the same time. For example, the group (word) might contain four instructions, and the compiler ensures that those four instructions are not dependent on each processors and DSPs, where its interacting (as opposed to the more traditional sequential pass) optimizers provide optimal solutions to problems such as issue slot allocation, phase ordering and code reduction. Beta-test versions of the new CoSy release have already been used successfully by Atair Software GmbH (a company that specializes in producing software development tools for DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive processors) to generate production quality Windows compilers. "Using CoSy, we have already been able to produce a highly optimized compiler for a very successful DSP processor in a very short period of time," said Franz Krieger, Atair's managing director. "Having thoroughly tested early releases of the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. version, we are now in a position to generate CoSy compilers for the various operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. automatically from within a single unified development environment." ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of ACE Associated Computer Experts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a world leader in the production of compiler development tools for compiler developers. Its open CoSy compiler development platform helps developers achieve a leading edge in the construction of better and faster optimizing compilers for architectures ranging from 4-bit DSPs to 256-bit VLIW processors. CoSy also supports a wide range of programming languages including C, Fortran and Java. Web site: http://www.ace.nl Note to Editors: Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CoSy is a registered trademark of ACE Associated Computer Experts bv. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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