Cygnus Introduces Simulator for the PowerPC Architecture.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1996--Cygnus Support today announced availability of their GNU Pro Simulator for the PowerPC Architecture. The availability of an extensible PowerPC simulator will free customers to prototype and develop software in parallel with hardware design efforts. The simulator will be offered as a standard component to the GNU Pro Tool Kit for PowerPC and includes: GNU C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ compilers, remote, windowing source-level debugger with GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , macro-assembler, linker, binary file utilities and a comprehensive support service unparalleled in the embedded development industry. "By providing embedded designers with a concurrent engineering path for PowerPC applications, Cygnus Support, a Motorola Gold Embedded Developer, has further demonstrated its commitment to our customers and their drive to reduce design cycles," says Mark Taylor, Tools Program Manager, Motorola High Performance Embedded Division. "It is companies like Cygnus that support Motorola's efforts to provide the broadest portfolio of design tools for its family of microprocessors," Taylor says. The GNU Pro Simulator for PowerPC boasts many features designed to ease embedded development: over 200K of instructions per second Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. Many reported IPS values have represented "peak" execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches, whereas realistic workloads consist of a mix of instructions and even applications, , full MMU simulation, a virtual device interface See VDI. with the capability to simulate an entire embedded design, PowerPC specific model selection, PowerPC function unit performance, and much more. GNU Pro is System v.4 ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. PowerPC conformant assuring full compliance with industry-wide standards. The GNU Pro PowerPC Simulator is available now hosted on the HP 9000/700 (HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix 9.05), i386(DOS/Win 3.1), PowerPC (AIX 4.1, 3.2.5), IBM RS/6000, and SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (Solaris 2.4 and SunOS 4.1.4). Contact Cygnus for additional availability. Cygnus Support is the leading supplier of high-end software solutions. Cygnus combines non-proprietary technology with expertise in inter networking and software development, to deliver custom solutions to businesses with time-critical and advanced technology needs. Founded in 1989, Cygnus is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with offices in Boston, Tokyo and Cambridge, UK. Telephone +1 415-903-1400 or 1-800-CYGNUS-1. Fax +1-415-903-0122. info@cygnus.com. http://www.cygnus.com. CONTACT: Cygnus Support, Mountain View Terri Thatcher, 415-903-1414 |
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