Virtio is the leader in web-based virtual prototyping. With Virtio's technology, the user can evaluate, experience and design embedded IP(intellectual property) platforms from a desktop browser. Virtio's Virtio IDE, technology is an integrated development environment (IDE) that enables the fast creation of virtual prototypes as well as the development of embedded software on top of the virtual prototypes. The fully graphical IDE focuses on the quick creation of system prototypes, on the order of weeks rather than months, and fast simulation execution speeds, on the order of million instructions per second.
Virtio also proactively addresses the risk of waiting until late in the design schedule to integrate the hardware and software product elements. With Virtio, the user integrates production-quality software on a virtual prototype of the hardware finding errors early in the design cycle and dramatically improving the predictability of the hardware and software integration. Source: SystemC.org