THAME, ENGLAND: The Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative has released new models of NEC processor cores. The NEC v850 series of processor cores, including the base instruction set as well as the E1 and E2 additions, is a workhorse in the embedded systems market, most commonly used in automotive and other applications.
"In the automotive electronics industry we always need to do more testing of our embedded systems software,” said Urban Forssell, CEO of NIRA Dynamics AB, a subsidiary of Audi Electronics Venture GmbH. “Finding that the simulation performance of the Imperas/OVP NEC model was 50 times faster than our previous solution opens up new possibilities for us in software testing, and enables us to increase our test coverage and product reliability."
“For the last 20 years we wouldn’t dream of building an integrated circuit without simulating the hardware,” said Simon Davidmann, president and CEO, Imperas and founding director of the OVP initiative. “Bringing simulation to software development is a natural step. Bringing low cost simulation tools and free, fast models of state of the art processors such as the NEC v850 is why we founded Open Virtual Platforms. With over 40 processor models available, OVP is quickly becoming the de facto source of fast models.”
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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