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Virtutech Announces Simics: Checkpointing for SystemC Based Transaction-Level Modeling

July 28, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtutech, specialized in virtualized systems development (VSD), today announced that its Simics platform now provides full-system checkpointing for SystemC based transaction-level modeling (TLM). OEM and semiconductor developers now can save, restore and share the precise and full-system state to bypass lengthy system boot and restart steps, share the system among engineering team members, capture and duplicate bugs, parallelize testing and offer product training from virtual platforms.

Virtutech is the only vendor to enable full-system, mixed-architecture checkpointing that reaches far beyond a simple save and restore function for individual elements of a SystemC virtual platform. The Simics checkpoint captures a snapshot of the complete system and can be restored at any point or location, on any host and by anyone so that software development, integration or test efforts can continue as if they had never been interrupted. Simics checkpointing works with mixed modeling languages to enable unique capabilities such as language freedom, portability across model versions, differential saving of memory and disks, the ability to easily change the level of model abstraction and to archive multiple target setup configurations.

In the past decade, checkpointing has become one of the most utilized and valuable capabilities within Virtutech Simics. The addition of SystemC checkpointing complements existing support for models written in C, C++ and Python to provide developers with a seamless, robust simulation solution for software, hardware and systems development bringing benefits that are difficult or impossible to achieve using physical hardware.

Virtutech Boasts Virtualized Software Development Leadership

July 30, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtutech, provider of virtualized software development (VSD) solutions, today announced new metrics that solidify the company’s position as the VSD platform vendor of choice for electronic systems developers.

Virtutech claims it is experiencing a growing demand for its Simics platform across all dimensions of the marketplace with:

More than 10,000 Simics end users based on licenses issued
More than 100 processors and virtual platforms deployed
More than 1,000 devices modeled on Simics and immediately available in the platform model repository
Simics has become the de facto commercial standard for enablement and development on Power Architecture;
More than 30 Fortune 500 companies rely on Virtutech.

Virtutech recently announced version 4.0 of its flagship Simics development platform, which debuted Simics Accelerator. Simics Accelerator is designed specifically to boost performance and scalability of large-scale simulations, including features such as memory page sharing and multi-threading support, which leverages the multi-core aspects of their host environment.

Early in June, Virtutech announced the fastest mixed level of modeling simulation supporting SystemC as well as C-based models with its Simics SystemC Bridge. This was followed shortly thereafter by Virtutech and Freescale’s joint announcement of a Hybrid Simulation capability to solve the critical need performance analysis and optimization of the system-on-chip (SoC) model when developing for complex multicore processors.

Virtutech appointed David Pefley as the company’s first chief financial officer. Pefley has more than 20 years experience in financial management, most recently as senior vice president, CFO and board member of Yield Dynamics where he led the company to a successful acquisition. He has served in various financial management positions, including corporate controller at KLA-Tencor Corp for 10 years.

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Virtutech Looking To Advance Standards for Virtualized Software Development

March 10, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtutech, a San-Jose based Virtualized Software Development (VSD) provider, today announced an initiative to accelerate the creation of standards for the VSD industry and to drive mainstream acceptance of VSD throughout the electronic systems business. While continuing its long-standing involvement with Power.org at both the Technical Sub Committees and Marketing Programs level, Virtutech has also joined organizations in its domain-Eclipse.org, OSCI and Spirit Consortium-with the aim of fostering standards and best practices. Virtutech further announced collaboration with GreenSocs to promote Open Standards and community development.

Virtutech intends to leverage its expertise with more than 1,000 successful users accumulated over the course of deploying its Simics platform since 2001 to propose, promote and support best practices, conventions and standards for VSD.

“Virtualized Software Development has the potential to make the same dramatic impact on software development that virtualization has already brought to the data center and business applications. However, the industry needs to stand up and define, promote and drive adoption of virtualization throughout the development community,” said Michel Genard, vice president of marketing at Virtutech. “Virtutech intends to be an agent of change and to actively precipitate the next big virtualization wave.”

[Source: press release]