ChipWrights Announces Availability of CodeWarrior for ChipWrights CWvx Processors -- Supports Development of New Mobile Imaging Applications.Business/Technology Editors 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. Conference 2002 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002 Popular Metrowerks(TM) CodeWarrior(TM) Technology Brings Familiar Development Environment to New Processor Architecture ChipWrights, Inc., a leader in digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (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 ) technology for mobile imaging applications, today announced at the Embedded Systems Conference the availability of its software development kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ), based on the Metrowerks CodeWarrior technology. CodeWarrior for ChipWrights, with proven technology from Metrowerks and customization by ChipWrights, enables companies to reduce the product development cycle of a new class of imaging applications. The ChipWrights CWvx processor is a high performance, highly scalable architecture combining a RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. and DSP processor with SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) A computer that performs one operation on multiple sets of data. It is typically used to add or multiply eight or more sets of numbers at the same time for multimedia encoding and rendering as well as scientific and vector processing features. CodeWarrior for ChipWrights has processor-specific plug-ins developed by ChipWrights to support the processor's unique architecture. "We are on track to delivering what our customers need to develop applications for this new architecture - and get a real jump on the market," said Steven J. Wilson, vice president, marketing, ChipWrights. "Opportunities abound in building embedded systems applications, especially those related to mobile imaging, and we are determined to lead the way. The CodeWarrior-based SDK gives programmers a highly accepted, well proven development environment and helps reduce the hurdles associated with adopting new processor technology." The award-winning CodeWarrior IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. features an intuitive, state-of-the-art project manager and build system and a suite of code development tools that have been optimized for the ChipWrights CWvx architecture. These tools include: -- ANSI C compiler with in-line assembly and vectorizing support; -- Assembler for CAS, ChipWrights Assembly Language, that uses an easy to understand algebraic syntax similar to the C language including advanced flow control statements; -- Supports linking both assembly and C code object modules; -- Cycle-accurate software simulator; -- Integrated Graphical Source Level Debugger with a high performance TCPIP based device target interface; -- Code Profiler down to the instruction level. CodeWarrior for ChipWrights CWvx is available today. Please contact your local ChipWrights representative for more information. About ChipWrights Headquartered in Newton, MA, ChipWrights is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. specializing in the design, development and marketing of a new class of fully programmable digital signal processing (DSP) devices. ChipWrights is developing a fully programmable, low cost, low power, and very high performance DSP/RISC microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. for fast-growing digital imaging markets. Specific application areas include real-time image capture/presentation and image transmission/network media infrastructure. ChipWrights will also provide a complete software development tool suite and hardware reference designs. Additional company information can be found at www.chipwrights.com. Metrowerks, the Metrowerks logo and CodeWarrior are registered trademarks of Metrowerks Corp. All other company and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies/holders, and are hereby recognized. |
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