Power.org(TM) to Develop Embedded Power Architecture(TM) Platform Requirements (ePAPR).ePAPR, Upcoming Software Summit, and Power Architecture Developer Conference Provide Interaction and Value for Power.org Members and Development Community AUSTIN, Texas -- Power.org[TM], the open collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes Power Architecture[TM] technology, announced it has initiated work to define Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR) as part of its commitment to design and deliver end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. including technology, software, and systems. The initiative is a collaborative effort from AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) , Cadence, Ericcson AB, HCL HCl hydrochloric acid. , Freescale, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , IPextreme, P.A. Semiconductor, Thales, and Wistron, and participation from current and prospective Power Architecture developers and OEM/ODMs is invited. "This effort is designed to strengthen the Power Architecture platform across embedded applications and facilitate a turn-key implementation of Power-based products in this market," said Dave Willoughby, Power Architecture Platform Requirements Technical Subcommittee chairperson and senior technical staff member, System Architecture and Design IBM Systems & Technology Group. "A strong embedded platform architecture with greater commonality com·mon·al·i·ty n. pl. com·mon·al·i·ties 1. a. The possession, along with another or others, of a certain attribute or set of attributes: a political movement's commonality of purpose. and standardization will aid both processor companies and their customers to reduce the time and costs spent bringing designs to market." The ePAPR specification will be designed to reduce the time and effort spent on basic implementation such as board, firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. , and software design, integration, and validation, allowing OEMs and ODMs to focus on their own value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. designs. The scalable and extensible platform architecture, Power Architecture has practical applications across a wide range of market segments including server, consumer and embedded applications. Increasingly, embedded vendors are seeking a strong embedded Power Architecture standard that will help bring new technologies such as virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. to the marketplace more quickly. "By collaborating and contributing leadership to the ePAPR standardization effort, Freescale is working to make it easier for our customers and partners to interface with different embedded processor A CPU chip used in a system other than a general purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such chips are used by the billions every year in a myriad of products. See embedded system. families in a standardized manner," said Syed Shah, Power.org Technical Committee Member and System Architect for Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focuses their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embedded and communications markets. . "The specification helps provide an interface framework that facilitates development of the Power Architecture embedded ecosystem." ePAPR will address a broad cross-section of platform functionality for embedded applications, with a core set of requirements as well as optional requirements that provide for multiple implementation points. The platform architecture will take an end-to-end user and solution view to ensure all necessary and appropriate platform architecture elements are considered. In addition to the ePAPR initiative, Power.org will host a Software Summit and host the first Power Architecture Developer Conference - both efforts designed to enable substantive interaction with the Power Architecture development community. * The Software Summit, April 19th, will provide a unique opportunity for software developers and development managers to refine Power.org's software strategy. For information, visit www.power.org/swsummit. * The industry's first-ever vendor-neutral event to focus on technical training and developer networking for a broad set of Power Architecture[TM] solutions, the Power Architecture[TM] Developer Conference, will be held in Austin, Texas, September 24 - 25, 2007. For information, visit www.power.org/devcon/07. About Power.org The Power.org open community collaborates on hardware and software specifications, standards and solutions based on the Power Architecture[TM] platform. Power Architecture technology is behind millions of innovative products, including the world's fastest supercomputers, leading video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. , and electronic systems in most of today's car models. Every phone call, e-mail and Web page touches hundreds of Power Architecture systems. Learn about Power.org and Power Architecture innovation at www.power.org. The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. [c] Power.org 2007. |
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