Accelerated Technology and Tensilica Provide uITRON Support for the Xtensa Configurable Processor with Nucleus uiPLUS.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2001 Accelerated Technology, Inc. (ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. ), the leader of source code and non-royalty based real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) software, and Tensilica(R) Inc., the leading supplier of configurable and extensible processor cores for embedded system-on-chip (SOC) applications, today jointly announced Nucleus uiPLUS support for the Xtensa(TM) processor. ATI and Tensilica will be demonstrating Nucleus uiPLUS at the Tensilica Multimedia Seminar on October 31 at the Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel in Yokohama, Japan. The uITRON RTOS specification, developed from the ITRON ITRON International Tidal Wetland Rice Observational Nursery ITRON Industrial The Real-time Operation Nucleus interface standard has been widely adopted across a large variety of embedded platforms and applications and is now in use by more than 50% of the embedded developers in Japan. As a result there is a large base of software targeted to the uITRON specification. Accelerated Technology's Nucleus uiPLUS allows customers to take advantage of their uITRON legacy code. ATI and Tensilica have ported Nucleus uiPLUS to Tensilica's Xtensa processor. The combination of Nucleus uiPLUS and the Xtensa processor will for the first time enable system developers to take advantage of a processor uniquely tailored to the application requirements while preserving software compatibility with the proven and popular uITRON specification. Support for Nucleus uiPLUS is further extended through Nucleus EDE E·de A city of western Nigeria northeast of Ibadan. A center of Yoruba culture, it is in a cocoa-growing region. Population: 248,000. and Nucleus UDB See DB2 UDB. udb - Universal Debugger which provide enhanced development and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. environments enabling faster development and more complete optimization for systems built with application-specific Xtensa processors. "Accelerated Technology has always been at the forefront in developing embedded technology for new and innovative devices. Tensilica's Xtensa processor architecture represents the latest wave of innovative microprocessor technology. Its configurability has found favor among many of our customers. These factors, coupled with our commitment to the Japanese market, prompted the port of Nucleus uiPLUS to the Xtensa architecture. We are grateful for Tensilica's support in this effort and we are confident that our mutual customers will benefit greatly from our partnership," said Neil Henderson, president of Accelerated Technology, Inc. "Japan is a key market for Tensilica," stated Chris Rowen row·en n. New England A second crop, as of hay, in a season. [Middle English rowein, from Anglo-Norman rewain, variant of Old French regain : re-, re- + , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Tensilica. "We have had great success engaging with the top electronics companies in both consumer and communications applications. Our partnership with ATI brings the full performance and efficiency of configurable processors to the uITRON world for the first time. The combination of Xtensa and Nucleus uiPLUS addresses our customers' requirements for both leading edge solutions and rapid time-to-market." Pricing and Availability Nucleus embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. is sold with source code and without royalty fees. Licenses for Nucleus uiPLUS start at $2,995. Tensilica's pricing structure is based on a licensing fee per design instance plus royalties based upon volume of processors manufactured. About Accelerated Technology, Inc. Accelerated Technology, Inc., the leading no-royalty embedded software solution, is headquartered in Mobile, Ala. with sales offices and distributors worldwide. By providing embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. developers with a focus on service, well-documented source code and industry leading non-royalty based Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) software, ATI's Nucleus RTOS Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) and full-featured toolset created by the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics for various CPU platforms. Nucleus RTOS is part of a complete embedded solution with a full complement of embedded middleware available. software shortens time-to-market and provides a complete solution for engineers. This complete list of Nucleus products includes prototyping products, kernels, networking suite, Web-enabling software, graphics package, multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. debugger and application monitoring tools. Accelerated Technology provides products and services worldwide to a wide variety of end-users, OEMs and IC vendors. Organizations that have taken advantage of the source code, no royalties business model of ATI include Compaq, Motorola, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , Sony and Texas Instruments. ATI's Nucleus products are used in a broad selection of applications ranging from telecommunications, networking and portable devices to industrial control and medical instrumentation. For more information, please visit the Web site http://www.acceleratedtechnology.com. For more information on Nucleus uiPLUS or any of Accelerated Technology's embedded software products, please feel free to contact us. About Tensilica, Inc. Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing market for configurable processors and software development tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-chip (SOC) designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware design and a complete software development tool environment tailored to their specific requirements in hours. Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use, methodology that enables designers to achieve optimum application performance in minimum design time. The Company has over 140 engineers engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, Calif.; Burlington, Mass.; Princeton, N.J.; Raleigh, N.C.; Houston, Texas; Oxford, U.K.; Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; and Yokohama, Japan. Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. (95054) at 3255-6 Scott Boulevard, and can be reached at 408/986-8000 or via www.tensilica.com on the World Wide Web. Editors Notes: -- "Nucleus" is a trademark of Accelerated Technology, Inc. "Tensilica" and "Xtensa" are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. -- Tensilica's announced licensees are Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Fujitsu Ltd., Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation, Marvell (Galileo Technology), Mindspeed Technologies, National Semiconductor, NEC Networks, NEC Solutions, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), ONEX Communications, Osaka & Kyoto Universities, TranSwitch Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC), and ZiLOG. -- TRON is an abbreviation of the Real-Time Operating System nucleus. ITRON is an abbreviation of Industrial TRON. uITRON is an abbreviation of Micro ITRON. TRON, ITRON and uITRON do not refer to any specific product or products. -- Information on ITRON can be found here: http://www.itron.gr.jp/home-e .html. |
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