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Virtio Corporation and TI Introduce Fast, Full-Function Software Emulation of TI Innovator™ Kit for OMAP™ Platform
06 May 2003
Virtio’s Virtual Platform and Platform Development Kit power dramatic gains in developer productivity.
Campbell, California, Livingston, Scotland and Dallas, Texas
– May 6, 2003--- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN)
and Virtio Corporation, the creator of virtual platforms for embedded
software development announced today the availability of the VPOM-1510
Virtual Platform, a fast, full-function software emulation of the TI
Innovator Development Kit for the OMAP™ Platform. VPOM-1510 delivers
dramatic gains in developer productivity by providing a complete desktop
environment for application, middleware, operating system and device
driver development. The VPOM-1510 supports a variety of operating systems
(OSs), including Symbian OS™, Windows® CE and Linux®, as well
as tool chains including Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior™; Microsoft®
Windows® CE.NET; Microsoft’s eMbedded Visual Tools for application
development and Platform Builder, Microsoft’s Integrated Development
Environment (IDE).
Shay Ben-Chorin, president and CEO for Virtio explains, “For Virtio,
being able to collaborate with TI’s OMAP platform, the leading
platform for wireless handsets, is a significant milestone in terms
of validating our overall product offerings and long-term company direction.
The VPOM virtual platform will provide software developers with significant
productivity gains in terms of control and visibility into the hardware
that, in turn, will benefit the overall wireless software development
process. The VPOM-1510 products will also enable developers to more
quickly and readily incorporate new functionality into mobile phones,
PDAs (personal digital assistants) and mobile Internet devices thereby
providing a significant competitive edge for these products.”
“For wireless providers, their market leadership is only as good
as their latest product innovation,” noted Ben-Chorin. “As
a result, these providers are continually seeking solutions that will
dramatically enhance and speed up their overall development process;
enable them to differentiate their products from the plethora of other
offerings and also enable them to keep pace with the demand for more
functionality in increasingly shortened product life cycles.”
Working together, TI and Virtio developed the virtual platform for TI’s
OMAP1510 processor to further enable development of OMAP-based products.
Virtio offers two different product iterations of the platform--the
VPOM-1510 Virtual Platform (VP) and VPOM-1510 Platform Development Kit
(PDK). The VP gives the software developer control and visibility into
the hardware to set breakpoints, single step and watch signals. With
the VP, a developer can preset hardware configurations such as switch
settings, camera source, and COM port settings to develop and test new
software configurations to boot operating systems, run applications,
or create low-level drivers.
The PDK offers the same functionality as the VP but adds the ability
to customize the platform hardware by using components from the library
of components provided or creating new functions by using the authoring
tools included in the PDK.
Using the PDK, developers can realize their entire system that incorporates
the TI OMAP1510 processor in a matter of days without the need to create
hardware prototypes.
“As the industry leader in wireless technology, TI continually
searches for ways to accelerate platform and system development. Offering
our customers a complete, fast, functional software emulation of our
Innovator Kit adds to the completeness of the OMAP processing platform,”
said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI’s OMAP
platform. “Now, with Virtio’s technology as a significant
contributor, we can better address our customers’ entire product
development cycles from OS to applications to processor platforms.”
To demonstrate the power of the VPOM-1510, Virtio and TI have combined
the VPOM-1510 with Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior™ Symbian OS™.
D'Arcy Salzmann, wireless industry manager for Metrowerks, noted,
“As a software tools developer, we work closely with silicon providers
to deliver early access to hardware technology to our customers. We
have already seen the value of Virtio's technology in its Softboard
product that is included with our CodeWarrior Development Studio for
Symbian OS, OEM Edition, Version 2. (See press release, "Virtio
Corporation and Metrowerks Join Forces to Provide Complete Development
Environment, in Software, for Mobile Phone Developers," dated April
14, 2003.) The VPOM-1510 is the result of all three companies working
together to better address our mutual customers’ needs.”
“With the large deployment of TI’s OMAP processors to developers
of smart phone devices, any efforts that result in getting the hardware
and software up and running together, in a ‘real world’
view is a significant achievement in the overall product development
process,” continued Salzmann.
About Virtio’s VPOM-1510 Virtual Platform
Virtio's VPOM-1510 offers significant software development benefits
by providing:
* Accurate hardware behavior (binary compatible)
* Complete control and visibility of both the hardware and software
environments
* Wide-spread access for continuous hardware/software integration
* Easy electronic distribution of the software development environment
to colleagues, partners and customers
* Accurate model of the user interface
* High performance that supports booting operating systems and running
applications
* Integration with industry-standard software development tools
Specific product capabilities/features include:
* OMAP1510 System-On-Chip
* Real-time clock
* TI925T ARM9TDM1 processor
* Ultra low power device (UPLD)
* 3 DPLLs
* Clock Manager
* MPU peripherals
* MPU public peripherals
* Shared peripherals
* Touch screen controller
* RS232 Transceiver switches
* Ethernet Controller
* Switches
Pricing and Availability
Virtio's VPOM-1510 Virtual Platform is priced at $1,990.00 and will
be available June 2003. Evaluation copies of the platform will go on-line
at www.virtio.com
on the release and beta copies are available today.
Virtio Products
Virtio Platforms are complete models of embedded systems including processors,
peripherals and user interfaces as well as connections to real world-like
serial ports and network connections. Virtio offers three types of platform
products: Platform Development Kit (PDK) targeted for developers that
need the ability to customize the platform to match their embedded device,
Virtual Platform (VP) targeted at software developers that need visibility
and control of the hardware for integration and Softboard (SB) targeted
at application developers that need the hardware functionality, but
have no need to see inside the hardware. Virtio products offer software
teams improved productivity by enabling early software development and
integration through focusing on the top three issues in embedded software
development—early access to hardware, complete visibility into
the hardware for integrating software and the ability to control the
hardware during software integration.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and Analog technologies
to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements.
In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors
& Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered
in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations
in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on
the World Wide Web at www.ti.com
About Virtio
Virtio powers dramatic gains in software development by delivering early
access to fast, full-function software emulation of embedded devices.
Virtio is based in Campbell, California in the U.S.A with development
centers at Campbell and the Alba Centre, Livingston, Scotland. Additional
information about Virtio is available at www.virtio.com
Virtio is a trademark of Virtio Corp. All other brand or product names
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies
and should be treated as such
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