35 People, Places, & Things
That Will Shape The Future
Things: Virtualization
As time-to-market windows shrink, designers must ensure that what they build works the first time. They are abandoning hardware prototypes for electronics virtualization, a technology that can lop eight months off a schedule, according to VaST, a leading player in the field. Virtualization predicts and abstracts redundant details when designing electronic control units for the automotive industry, for example. It gauges talk time or the number of digital photographs that can be processed for a given battery capacity in a wireless phone, all before the device gets built. [...Read More]By Nicolas MokhoffResearch editor at EE Times
"Virtualization provides automotive developers with early access to pre-silicon development and validation capabilities. Market realities are driving the need for higher-level solutions, and Freescale is responding with virtual platforms that can help customers save valuable development time and resources,"Peter Schulmeyer, director of strategy for automotive MCUs at Freescale.
"We evaluated VaST's CoMET and were impressed with its execution speed, accuracy, and debug visibility of virtual prototype,..."Tsuyoshi Aoyama, GM Consumer Products, Epson Imaging Products Division.
"More and more of our customers are making virtualization solutions an integral part of their overall design flow. Working with VaST allows us to better satisfy customer demand. VaST's solutions allow our customers to check in-system performance and make critical cost, performance, and power trade-offs to determine the best Xtensa processor configuration for their needs"Steve Roddy, vice president of marketing and business development, of Tensilica.
"Automotive electronic systems are experiencing exponential growth in software complexity with the growing expectation of improving product quality. VaST's solutions help Delphi manage complexity."Frank Winters, Delphi Electronics & Safety manager of design methodology.
"Renesas has responded to these demands as a microcomputer manufacturer and VaST has led in the development of virtual prototyping technology and best practices in the application of this technology. Together we can give our customers competitive advantages in performance, quality, schedule, and cost by using our joint solutions."Tsotomu Miki, Head of the Renesas Automotive Business Unit
"VaST's virtualization fundamentally changes how electronic products are brought to market."Ashmeet Sidana, former VMware executive and Foundation Capital partner
"We evaluated VaST's CoMET and acknowledge the speed and accuracy of its virtual-prototype simulation. VaST technology allows us to perform hardware and software integration testing before the availability of prototype boards or LSIs."Michio Ishii, general manager for the SOC Technology Department, Digital Platform Technology Division, of Olympus
"VaST's modeling capabilities, coupled with our e200 automotive microcontroller platforms, help our mutual customers manage this complexity and deliver higher quality products faster."Ray Cornyn, Freescale's director for automotive microcontrollers
"VaST tools are production proven and play an increasingly important role in architecture optimization, software development, and system verification."Dr. Christoph Kutter, Senior VP of Products and Systems, Infineon Technologies
