CoWare Partners with ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv for Breakthrough C Compiler Generation Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DATE04 PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2004 Business and Technology Partnership Brings Market Leading C Compiler Generation Technology for Embedded Processors to CoWare's LISATek Tools CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) software and services, announced it is partnering with ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv to shorten time-to-market for customers developing embedded processors. The business and technology relationship between CoWare and ACE -- the market leader in configurable C compiler generation technology -- includes the incorporation of the recently announced ACE CoSy(R) Express technology into the C Compiler Designer option in the latest version of CoWare's LISATek products. CoWare collaborated with ACE to develop and integrate the CoSy Express technology, which enables designers to easily create C compilers for their embedded processors through LISATek(TM) -- a fully integrated solution for embedded processor and Application Specific Instruction Processor (ASIP ASIP American Society for Investigative Pathology ASIP Application Specific Instruction Set Processor ASIP Aircraft Structural Integrity Program ASIP Arrow System Improvement Program (US DoD) ASIP Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload ) modeling and creation. Previously, manual creation of C compilers was a significant barrier for designers wanting to develop their own embedded processors, due to the complexity of the task and high development costs. "With C compiler creation taking several man years and up to a million dollars, it is expensive for companies to create their own custom C compilers for particular projects," said Mark Milligan, vice president of marketing, CoWare. "With the combination of revolutionary C compiler generation technology and the existing software tool generation capabilities of LISATek, this task can be reduced from man years to man weeks. This enables more companies to enjoy the benefits of software programmability for their processor IP. Many of our customers have used the CoSy technology for standard processors with excellent results, and we are confident that it is the right technology for LISATek's embedded processor solution." "We are thrilled to be working with CoWare, the system-level EDA leader, to incorporate ACE's new CoSy Express technology into their LISATek design flow," said Martijn de Lange, 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. , ACE. "This partnership brings together two industry leaders who will provide architecture designers with unprecedented flexibility, efficiency and accuracy in design exploration, enabling greater avenues for growth of complex architectures. ACE's 28 years of extensive expertise in development of compiler technology and generation systems completes the hardware/software design flow for emerging architectures. As a result, compiler development is now made possible for the large community of architecture designers." More information about the latest version of the LISATek products, featuring the ACE CoSy Express technology, is available on the CoWare website at www.coware.com or by contacting John MacDermott, director, business development, at johnm@coware.com. More information about the CoSy Express technology is available in a separate press announcement from ACE, issued on January 29, 2004. To access this announcement, visit www.ace.nl. About ACE ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of ACE Associated Computer Experts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a world leader in compiler development tools. Its open CoSy compiler development system gives compiler developers the ability to achieve a similar leading edge position in the construction of better and faster optimizing compilers for architectures ranging from 4-bit micro-controllers to 24-bit DSPs and 256-bit VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) A CPU architecture that reads a group of instructions and executes them at the same time. For example, the group (word) might contain four instructions, and the compiler ensures that those four instructions are not dependent on each processors. CoSy also accommodates a wide range of programming languages including C, DSP-C, C++, Fortran and Java. For more information about ACE Associated Compiler Experts and its products and services, including the recent CoSy Express press announcement, please visit http://www.ace.nl. About CoWare CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of 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. ) tools that enable SoC developers 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; and hardware/software co-design. 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 Ltd. (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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), STMicroelectronics (NYSE: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. CoSy is an international trademark of ACE Associated Computer Experts bv. LISATek is a trademark of CoWare, Inc. CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. in the United States. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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