Wind River to Distribute Celoxica's DK1 Design Suite.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ABINGDON, Oxfordshire & ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2001 Celoxica Limited. Celoxica Joins Wind River Initiative to Deliver a One-Stop-Shop for Reconfigurable Computing See adaptive computing. Through the Wind Direct Program Celoxica Limited and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) today announced a worldwide agreement to distribute DK1 -- a C-to-hardware design suite for the rapid expression and conversion of software algorithms into hardware implementations on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Established through the Wind River Direct(TM) program, the agreement furthers Wind River's initiative to deliver the most complete integrated development solution for reconfigurable computing to embedded developers (see separate Wind River press release today). "DK1 is a compelling technology for Wind River's customers and we are proud to be providing one of the cornerstones for this new initiative," said Jon Treanor, president & 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. , Celoxica. "In Wind River, Celoxica is gaining a truly world class partner that understands and supports the changing of processes within a customer's organisation to accommodate new technologies." "Reconfigurable computing and 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. technology is one of the most exciting emerging markets in the embedded industry," said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing and corporate development for Wind River. "Wind River is pleased to extend our WindLink(TM) partnership with Celoxica to provide the best and most complete development technology for the reconfigurable computing market, all available in one place." Celoxica's DK1 is the first suite for effective direct C-to-hardware synthesis. Beyond its benefits in rapid hardware design, DK1 enables system designers and software developers to accelerate algorithms by expressing them in parallel and mapping them directly to hardware without a Hardware Description Language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. (HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ) step. This has significant implications in areas such as broadband networking where the ability to accelerate complex software protocols in hardware is becoming more and more critical. Wind River has an exclusive one-year agreement to be the only company in the embedded industry to offer the DK1 and will immediately distribute it through its worldwide sales organization. Celoxica will provide direct support to the Wind River sales team through its regional offices in Silicon Valley, Calif.; Japan; Singapore; and the United Kingdom. Customer support for DK1 will be provided to Wind River customers through Celoxica's own support organization and Celoxica's support partner Synstar, which provides support to leading international organizations, including 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) and NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers . About DK1 The DK1 design suite represents a new approach to the rapid development of designs implemented on FPGAs, cutting design-times to weeks and days. With DK1 engineers use Handel-C, a high-level language A machine-independent programming language, such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal and C/C++. It lets the programmer concentrate on the logic of the problem to be solved rather than the intricacies of the machine architecture such as is required with low-level assembly languages. based on ANSI-C, to write complex algorithms targeted for migration to hardware. Handel-C can be learnt by a C-programmer in a matter of days. DK1 provides migration from a C-like code, with extensions for parallelism and timing, directly to hardware. As a result, space and time issues can be controlled in C and hardware design is no longer limited to hardware design experts, but accessible to application specialists, including system architects and software engineers. Along with an integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE), DK1 provides all the design tools -- including compilers, simulators and debuggers -- needed to design, validate, refine and implement designs based on the Handel-C high-level language. DK1 and Handel-C are both supported by comprehensive training programs. About Wind River Direct Under the umbrella of the WindLink Partner Program, Wind River Direct(TM) is the embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. industry's first-ever one-stop-shopping option for integrated solutions based on the Wind River development platform. As more devices requiring embedded technologies are produced across a variety of vertical market segments, an increasing number of developers are searching for ways to improve their time-to-market. With Wind Direct, developers can purchase a previously disparate group of building blocks on one purchase order. And because the Wind River Direct products have passed the interoperability requirements for Tornado certification, the effort required by the customer to expand the Tornado platform to meet specific development requirements is minimal. Celoxica joins a prestigious group of WindLink Partners participating in Wind River Direct -- other partners include Ada Core, Aisys, Criterion, Highlander, Real-Time Innovations Real Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI) is a computer networking software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California (USA) specializing in publish/subscribe middleware. The company's major competitors are PrismTech, 29West, and TIBCO Software. , Spider Software, and Tri-Pacific Software. For more information about Wind River Direct, please refer to http://www.windriver.com/wrdirect/index.html. Pricing and availability Celoxica's DK1 design suite is available now through the Wind River sales organization priced at $76,500 for a three-year license. About Wind River Wind River, www.windriver.com, is a worldwide leader in embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think(TM). Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations in sixteen countries worldwide. About Celoxica Celoxica provides software products, development boards, IP cores and design services that enable software engineers to rapidly design application logic for FPGAs and programmable logic devices. Celoxica's application-level approach leverages the world's first integrated development environment for true 'C' to hardware synthesis, supported by a range of development boards for rapid prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. . By creating and leading the world of reconfigurable electronics, Celoxica is enabling customers to overcome costly development cycles and exploit ongoing revenue opportunities through hardware upgrade programs via the Internet. Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Infineon Technologies For the raceway, see . Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004, FWB: IFX, NYSE: IFX) was founded in April 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. AG, Marconi plc, Matra Bae Dynamics Matra BAe Dynamics was formed in August 1996 by merger of half the missile business of Matra Defense of France and BAe Dynamics (a division of British Aerospace) of the UK and was Europe's largest manufacturer of missiles and UAVs. France, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. The company employs over 100 people and is headquartered in Abingdon, UK, with additional offices in London, UK; Campbell and Scotts Valley, Calif., USA; Yokahama, Japan; and Singapore. For more information about Celoxica, visit www.celoxica.com or contact info@celoxica.com. For sales inquiries contact: Americas -- sales.americas@celoxica.com; APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) -- sales.apac@celoxica.com; Europe, Middle East, Africa -- emeasales@celoxica.com. Note to Editors: Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are the trademarks of Celoxica Limited. Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, Tornado, VxWorks, Wind River Direct, WindLink and How Smart Things Think are trademarks or registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. 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