Imperas announced it has signed an agreement with MIPS Technologies (News - Alert), Inc., a provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications. With this agreement, a series of processor models created by Imperas will be freely available now.

 

These verified MIPS models can be used for efficient development of higher quality embedded software as they can be used to build virtual platforms that run up to 500-million instructions per second. Imperas will now make accessibility of OVP possible and is expected to take the electronics industry forward with its visionary approach to virtual platforms. The customers of the company can now develop high-quality software faster and more easily using virtual platform models of their SoCs and embedded systems as verifying the compatibility and functionality of these high performance MIPS-Based™ processor models and making them is freely available with OVP.

 

OVP aims to provide the infrastructure technology for embedded software development, and the infrastructure through the OVPworld.org website for this community to grow. The problems encountered by software developers have when modeling the system on chip (SoC) that hosts their software is addressed by this technology.

 

Imperas models of MIPS processor cores will be available for free at the www.OVPworld.org website and will be verified by MIPS Technologies under the MIPS-Verified™ program. The MIPS core models and many other models used in developing virtual platforms are available now and downloadable free of charge at the OVP website: www.OVPworld.org. Other components available from OVP include consists of application programming interfaces (APIs) for building a platform verification infrastructure and developing behavioral and processor models.

 

“MIPS Technologies recognizes the importance of freely available models to seed the market for rapid growth and accelerate the design and programming of embedded systems on chip,” says Simon Davidmann, Imperas’ president and chief executive officer. “Compatibility and quality of models is essential when using virtual platforms to develop software and by having MIPS-Verified processor models available for free from OVP means developers can get higher quality software developed faster. Verified models really help close the Software Gap.”