Transitive Technologies and Alchemy Semiconductor Collaborate to Enable ARM Binary Code to Run on Alchemy's MIPS-Based Processors; Runs ARM-Based Applications Software.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2001 Transitive transitive - A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z. Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all transitive. Technologies, a developer of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. morphing software, and Alchemy Semiconductor Inc(TM), an Austin-based 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. targeting the Internet Edge Device market, today announced they are working together to enable application software written for ARM(TM)-based platforms to run on the Alchemy's family of high performance, low power MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (R) (Nasdaq:MIPS) microprocessors and evaluation platforms. Transitive Technologies' Dynamite(TM) software complements Alchemy's MIPS strategy, which will expand Alchemy's served markets by eliminating customer software constraints. Transitive's Dynamite A/M A/M Away Message (AOL Instant Messaging) A/M Automatic / Manual A/M Aeromobile (Italian: airplane) A/M Ampere Per Meter A/M approach and moor (US DoD) is providing Alchemy with a "Synthetic ARM" CPU software engine that enables their family of products to translate ARM binary code binary code Code used in digital computers, based on a binary number system in which there are only two possible states, off and on, usually symbolized by 0 and 1. Whereas in a decimal system, which employs 10 digits, each digit position represents a power of 10 (100, 1,000, to MIPS binary code. It will scale Alchemy's current family of products, which include the 400 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , 1/2 watt Au1000(TM) and the PCI-enabled Au1500(TM). The software can be demonstrated on Alchemy's Pb1000 and Pb1500 development boards and its Mobile Client Device(TM) reference design. This powerful technology utilizes a CPU configurable software platform that allows code written for a subject instruction set architecture (ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. ) to transparently run a target ISA at native speeds or better. "Transitive's goal is to enable OEMs to use the best processor available, which is why we collaborated with Alchemy. We believe their high performance, low power SoC technology is one of the best in its class for mobile computer devices," said John Graham John Graham, Johnny Graham or Jack Graham may be: In politics and history:
"Transitive's Dynamite A/M allows Alchemy to penetrate designs which have previously used ARM processors. By translating ARM code into MIPS code, customers can utilize their legacy application code while benefiting from Alchemy's very high performance and low power unmatched in the market by any other single chip SOC available today," said Jim Moore, president and CEO of Alchemy Semiconductors. "We see a lot interest from our customers, and we will continue working with Transitive to expand the code base available to our customers." The current implementation of Dynamite A/M runs on a Linux operating system. The company plans to develop future versions of Dynamite A/M next year, supporting WinCE as well as other relevant operating systems. Transitive is demonstrating its ARM to MIPS platform, called Dynamite A/M, on Alchemy's reference design at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose this week, October 15-17. About Alchemy Semiconductors Founded in Austin, Texas, in 1999, Alchemy Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets high performance, yet very low power systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for the Internet Edge Device market. These devices include both wireless hand-held enterprise PDAs and remote Internet access products, as well as Internet infrastructure products, such as routers and line cards. The company's founding team includes world-renown embedded microprocessor architects, led by former DEC Alpha / StrongARM design team members, allowing for a combination of proven design execution and MIPS performance technology to achieve high performance, low power dissipation and system integration in its Internet Edge Processor. Alchemy's headquarters are at 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 222W, Austin, Texas 78757; or go to www.alchemysemi.com. About Transitive Technologies Ltd Transitive is a venture-financed private company with operations in Manchester, England and San Diego. The company develops and licenses CPU specific implementations of Dynamite and selectively engages in "ISA free" co-architecture projects for novel Synthetic CPU designs. The company can be contacted at 858/674-2244, or go to http://www.transitives.com. |
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