Aisys to Develop Embedded Design Automation Solution for TI Cable Modems.Business Editors 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)--Nov. 20, 2000--Aisys Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , Incorporated (TI) to develop a device-driver automation solution targeting voice over cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. applications. This solution will support TI's newly announced voice over cable modem solution, which includes TI digital signal processors (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 ) and communications and 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. processors. The Aisys/TI agreement marks the first MIPS-specific DriveWayTM device driver development environment technology implementation by Aisys since joining MIPS Technologies' MIPS Alliance Program in September 2000. Currently, there are thirty chip vendors who are members of the MIPS consortium and who have licensed the MIPS32 core for the creation of high volume 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. TI is a member of the MIPS consortium and has licensed the MIPS32 core for the development of its recently announced voice over cable modem solution. "The new TI cable modem architecture and the Aisys DriveWay solution will offer a powerful hardware/software combination to our customers so they can get to market faster," said Rod Trautman, TI cable broadband communications worldwide marketing manager. "TI entered into this agreement with Aisys because Aisys is an industry leader in device-driver automation technology." 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 generate these drivers, code and glue, a tedious process that can add months to the development cycle of an end-product. "TI's MIPS cores and DriveWay together will help customers create more powerful integrated embedded solutions," said Elan Roth, Aisys vice president of business development. "Through this agreement with Texas Instruments, embedded designers using the TI MIPS cores will have access to DriveWay, which reduces embedded design time by a 2X 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 manufactured by Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and Motorola. 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. Aisys and DriveWay are trademarks of Aisys, Inc. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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