Aisys Inc. Announces Cooperative Agreement With MIPS Technologies To Deliver Embedded Design Automation Solution.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)--Sept. 25, 2000 Aisys's DriveWay(TM) Device Driver Design Environment Expands To Cover the MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. 32(TM) Architecture Aisys Inc., an automated embedded design tool vendor, today announced that it has joined the MIPS Alliance Program. The agreement calls for Aisys Inc. to provide its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , DriveWay Device Driver Design Environment to support the MIPS32(TM) architecture immediately, with a roadmap for future support of the MIPS64(TM) architecture. In addition, Aisys Inc. will offer its DriveFast(TM) consulting services to MIPS Technologies (MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.mips.com) Founded in 1984 as MIPS Computer Systems Inc., the company merged with SGI in 1992 and spun off as an independent entity once again in 2000. customers and licensees, currently totaling 26 chip vendors. DriveWay automates the integration of hardware and software for the creation of 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. such as networking and digital consumer applications that use the MIPS32 architecture. "The ability to automate design tasks with `smart' software like DriveWay gives MIPS developers a tool that can raise product quality while shortening time shortening time n. an order of the court in response to the motion of a party to a lawsuit which allows setting a motion or other legal matter at a time shorter than provided by law or court rules. to market," said Mark Otto, third-party business development manager at MIPS Technologies "Aisys' tool support provides an immediate competitive benefit to new MIPS-based designs underway." Why use DriveWay? In an 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. design, DriveWay is used to automate the creation of device drivers, boot code and software glue, which can save up to 70% of design time and 50% of development cost. Without a device driver automation tool, embedded design engineers would have to manually write these drivers, code and glue, a tedious process that can add months to the development cycle of an end product. "The combination of MIPS architecture and Aisys DriveWay technology will provide a powerful vehicle for embedded systems design," said Elan Roth, vice president of business development. "This agreement with MIPS Technologies allows designers of MIPS-based products to reduce their design time by a significant factor." About Aisys Aisys Inc. develops and markets design automation tools and services for embedded systems that help designers reduce development time by as much as 70% and development cost by as much as 50%. The company's flagship tool, DriveWay, currently supports microcontrollers and microprocessors manufactured by Texas Instruments, Motorola and National Semiconductor. Aisys was founded in 1994 and its headquarters are located 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. . For more information, please visit the Aisys web site at http://www.aisysinc.com. MIPS is a registered trademark and MIPS-based, MIPS32, 4K and 4Kc are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. All press materials are available on the World Wide Web via: http://www.mips.com. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion