Cradle Accelerates Its Digital Convergence Solutions with New Programming Tools and Software IP Catalog.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 Company Aligns with Familiar Programming Models to Reduce the Learning Curve for System Developers Cradle, 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. offering programmable Soft-Silicon(TM) solutions for the digital convergence In the days of the first computers, transaction and company data were the first types of information digitized. Then came text, opening the world to word processing, followed by audio CDs and finally video. of secure data, voice, image and video into multimedia services, announced today a new version of its programming tools and a new software "IP Catalog" of royalty-free system functions and interfaces for system on chip (SOC) design. The tools and IP Catalog significantly enhance the company's already mature development environment with new functionality designed to reduce the learning curve for system developers when using Cradle products. "The company's architecture and off-the-shelf silicon solutions provide OEMs with a fresh innovative approach to SOC design. However, mature tools and software availability that streamline the development process are also critical 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 requirements. Cradle's announcement is a significant step for them to provide these tools and software," says Rich Wawrzyniak, senior analyst at Semico Research Corporation. The new feature enriched version of Cradle's programming tools and 3SOC(TM) multi-processor architecture facilitate shifting system functions into software, an SOC design methodology Cradle calls Soft-Silicon(TM). The shift to software enables developers to design system functionality ahead of hardware availability and shorten time to market. Cradle's tools are based on standards such as the ANSI C (language, standard) ANSI C - (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989. cgram is a grammar for ANSI C, written in Scheme. language and GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. libraries, and have been in use world-wide since 1999. Cradle and third parties have consistently demonstrated that multiple concurrently-operating system functions can be rapidly integrated on chip. Cradle's approach reduces the time consuming task of debugging complex operating system functions, such as context switching in a real time environment. Cradle's IP Catalog is similar in concept to the library of hardware macros offered by FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. vendors. However, Cradle's software-based IP catalog facilitates a shift to a link, load, test and verify methodology for SOC development that offers immediate system verification. Hardware-based IP integration and test methodologies cannot provide the same level of immediate verification. "Cradle's tools and IP catalog enable us to focus on reducing the time from research break-through to product introduction because the unique competitive advantages we model algorithmically can remain in software and are easily linked with the IP Catalog," says Patrice Haftman, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. Infomedia Network. About Cradle Cradle Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company offering programmable Soft-Silicon(TM) solutions for the Digital Convergence era, where secure data, voice, image and video services merge into one seamless multi-media environment. Based on its Software Scalable System on a Chip (3SOC(TM)), the first architecture designed specifically for digital convergence, Cradle products enable OEMs to shift all system functions and interfaces into software, creating Soft-Silicon systems that accelerate time to market, lower product development costs, and improve overall product price-performance. Cradle's Enhanced Communications Engines (ECE ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE Economic Commission for Europe ECE Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (France) ECE Educational Credential Evaluators Inc ECE East Central Europe ECE Endothelin Converting Enzyme (TM)) target the network-centric Internet digital convergence markets while Media Processing Engines (MPE MPE abbr. Master of Public Education (TM)) target media-centric digital convergence markets. These highly scalable engines contain multiple 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 (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 processors that deliver unprecedented price-performance and flexibility. ECEs combine IP packet processing with voice, security, and video processing into a highly integrated solution that significantly reduces the system design complexities when supporting Internet based multimedia services. MPEs represent a flexible and economical alternative to ASICs for systems that have demanding image and video processing requirements. MPEs reduce long development cycles and high chip development costs while maximizing design flexibility. Cradle's development systems, standards based software tools, and catalog of intellectual property software functions and interfaces provide OEMs with all the building blocks necessary to rapidly and cost-effectively complete their digital convergence solutions and deliver products with compelling value. Cradle's corporate headquarters are located in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . For more information about the company call 650-210-3600 or visit www.cradle.com |
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