CoWare
www.coware.com/

Product Categories
Simulation tools

Company Description
CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of electronic system-level (ESL) tools that enable SoC developers to "differentiate by design" through the creation of system-IP including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP algorithms, the architecture of optimized SoC platforms, hardware/software co-design and virtual platforms for device software development. The company's solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM, Cadence Design Systems, STMicroelectronics, and Sony Corporation. CoWare is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the world.

Products & Solutions

Virtual platforms are fast and scalable models of the system hardware, including the device hardware and the environment it evolves in. Virtual platforms provide the combined execution speed, early availability, controllability, observability and determinism, with pre- and post-silicon usability, that none of the traditional software development methods provide. CoWare Virtual Platform product family and services provide semiconductor companies and device manufacturers with the infrastructure to create, package and use Virtual Platforms that will enable earlier and more productive software development internally, for your customers and for your ecosystem partners.Integrated within your Electronic System Level (ESL) methodology, CoWare solutions will enable you to deliver better products. CoWare Virtual Platform product family delivers the tools and technologies that support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for software development, system integration, and test. Developers involved in activities such as designing Linux Support Packages (LSPs) and applications based on MontaVista Linux can start their development prior to the physical hardware availability. By doing so, they can be more productive because they have better hardware controllability and visibility. CoWare can deliver with MontaVista, integrated solutions which result in shorter development cycles, reduced development risks, and lower development costs.

Applicable CPUs
ARM
MIPS
PowerPC
SH
XScale
X86 / IA-32
Xtensa