CoWare Partners with PowerEscape for Power Optimization Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 PowerEscape Products Optimize the Memory Subsystem of Electronic Designs For Increased Performance and Lower Cost 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 startup PowerEscape, Inc. to distribute PowerEscape's power optimization software. CoWare has signed an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with PowerEscape to sell the products globally. PowerEscape, Inc. was founded in 2003 to develop, market and sell a new generation of design tools that enable system architects, algorithm designers, and software developers to dramatically reduce power consumption and increase performance in electronic appliances and systems. Its initial products are the first commercially available tools that enable designers to optimize the critical algorithms and software of today's electronic products for lower power. According to Guido Arnout, president and 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. of PowerEscape, "Systems are becoming more and more software dominated. The critical algorithms in today's digital lifestyle products start as C code. How an algorithm interacts with memory has a large impact on power and performance, but is largely independent of how the algorithm is implemented. The PowerEscape tools help designers optimize C code and the memory sub-system for power and performance prior to implementation into a system. The products offer a new 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. ) solution to a widespread problem faced by designers of consumer electronic devices. We're pleased to be joining forces with CoWare--the leader in ESL design--to help bring this hugely important solution to designers worldwide." PowerEscape Brings Important New Functionality to CoWare's Integrated ESL Offering "PowerEscape offers unique and significant value to all developers of performance and power critical software," said Alan Naumann, president and CEO of CoWare. "CoWare now provides customers a focused one-stop shop for ESL design, including buses, processors, algorithms, and application-specific libraries. The PowerEscape tools are complementary to CoWare's ESL solutions, and our customers will benefit greatly from the addition of PowerEscape to CoWare's integrated design tool offering." The PowerEscape tools analyze ANSI C code and algorithms and provide source code level feedback on memory accesses and cache hits and misses to enable algorithm designers and software developers to optimize their C code for power and performance. The tools can help optimize algorithms originally architected in SPW--CoWare's popular tool for the design of new algorithms. Once an algorithm is developed in SPW SPW Signal Processing Workstation SPW Shelter in Place Warning SPW Spencer, IA, USA - Spencer Municipal Airport (Airport Code) SPW Special Purpose Weapon SPW Spokane Washington (border patrol sector) , the use of the PowerEscape tools during the C coding process helps ensure high performance and low power. While the PowerEscape tools focus on power and performance in the interaction between software and the memory sub-system, the CoWare LISATek(TM) tools help design the best instructions to accelerate parts of an algorithm in a processor. The combination of the tools leads to higher performance and lower power than each tool can reach individually. In addition, the PowerEscape tools help identify which software parts should be accelerated in hardware or moved to a custom processor, and help determine the optimal cache and memory architecture. Once an algorithm is optimized for power and performance, it may be "encapsulated" in SystemC for further architectural exploration and hardware refinement in ConvergenSC(TM), CoWare's system level design tool suite. Pricing and Availability The PowerEscape products are available immediately. The products run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. , Red Hat Fedora A free distribution of the Linux kernel from Red Hat along with a variety of open source utilities. Technical support is not provided for any of the Fedora distribution, only for Red Hat's full fee-based subscription of Linux. Core, Red Hat Cygwin on Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Sun Solaris. They require gcc 2.95 or higher. In Japan, PowerEscape products are sold exclusively through CoWare. In Europe and the U.S., PowerEscape products are available through CoWare and PowerEscape. For the latest pricing and availability information, contact sales@powerescape.com. For more information, visit www.coware.com or www.powerescape.com. 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) 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. About PowerEscape PowerEscape, Inc. was founded in 2003 to develop, market and sell a new generation of design tools that enable system architects, algorithm designers, and software developers to dramatically reduce power consumption and increase performance in electronic appliances and systems. PowerEscape, Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. For more information, visit www.powerescape.com. ConvergenSC and LISATek are trademarks of CoWare, Inc. CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. in the United States. PowerEscape is a trademark of PowerEscape, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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