CoWare's Virtual Platform Product Family Is 2007 DesignVision Award Finalist.The Prestigious IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission Awards Give Tribute To Pioneering Developments Judged Most Beneficial to the Engineering Community SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- CoWare([R]), Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ) design software and services, announced that its Virtual Platform Product Family has been nominated as a finalist in the prestigious International Engineering Consortium's (IEC) DesignVision Awards program. IEC created this program to honor technologies, applications, products, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry. Finalists were chosen from among a record-number of competing products by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
"Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission," commented IEC president John Janowiak. "We are delighted to recognize our DesignVision Finalists and share the best design advancements and innovators with the entire industry." "We are extremely pleased and honored to have been named a finalist for the DesignVision Awards," said Marc Serughetti, CoWare director of marketing. "This award further confirms what our customers are telling us. We have a truly innovative solution to a real design need. To stay competitive, companies are increasingly recognizing the need for a software development solution, such as CoWare's, that is an integral part of an overall ESL design strategy." About Virtual Platform Product Family Companies producing electronic devices in the consumer, mobile and wireless, networking, and automotive markets are facing the challenge of an exponential increase in the software content of their products. CoWare's new product family addresses this challenge. Virtual platforms for software development are fast and scalable models of the system hardware, including the device hardware and the environment it evolves in. Unlike traditional software methods, virtual platforms combine execution speed, early availability, controllability, observability, and determinism with pre- and post-silicon usability. CoWare's Virtual Platform Product Family delivers tools and services for the creation, distribution, and use of virtual platforms for software development to leading semiconductor and electronic device companies worldwide. The product family is integrated with and supports the CoWare platform-driven ESL strategy. Visit www.CoWare.com for more information on the Virtual Platform Product Family and CoWare's other ESL solutions. About CoWare CoWare is the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of ESL tools that enable electronics companies to "differentiate by design" through the creation of system IP, including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and 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 algorithms; the architecture of optimized SoC platforms; hardware/software co-design; and virtual platforms for device software development. The company's solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY), Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. (Nasdaq:CDNS CDNS Cadence Design Systems, Inc (stock symbol) CDNS Climatological Data National Summary CDNS Command Data Network System CDNS Customer and Data Network Services (Sprint) ), STMicroelectronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ), and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE SNe Supernovae (astronomy) SNE Sony Corporation (stock symbol) SNE Syndicat National de l'edition (French Publisher's Association) SNE Society for Nutrition Education ). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about CoWare and its products and services visit http://www.coware.com. CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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