Virtio - Virtual Platforms for Embedded System Design

<body> <H1><A HREF="home.html">VIRTIO ONLINE</A></H1> <H2>Virtio developed its unique Internet capabilities by leveraging its patent pending graphical simulation technologies. Virtio's graphical Virtio Solutions are used for embedded IP evaluation, concurrent software and hardware development, and early system integration.</h2> <H3><A HREF="links/virtual_prototyping.html">virtual prototyping</A></H3> Inherent in virtual prototyping software is the ability to define design objectives, constraints, and variables, and have the software iterate automatically to the optimally-performing configuration. <H3><A HREF="links/links/ARM_processor_solution.html">ARM processor solution</A></H3> Through our alliances with IP creators, the user gains hands-on experience in the capabilities of multi-sourced IP as a result of the unified platform of Virtio Solutions. <H3><A HREF="links/design_embedded_IP_platforms.html">design embedded IP platforms</A></H3> Users receive free access to executable models instead of paper data sheets they can experience the IP platforms to instantly re-configure their design to meet their specific requirements. <H3><A HREF="links/design_embedded_SOC.html">design embedded SOC</A></H3> By providing virtual building blocks for application-specific domains the user can combine IP from multiple vendors to create prototypes of complete systems. <H3><A HREF="links/embedded_software_development.html">embedded software development</A></H3> Traditionally, the evaluation of multi-sourced IP and customization of standard platforms is time consuming and difficult. When the user creates a design using the pre-configured models from our Universe Sponosor program in Virtio Integrator, a significant decrease in time-to-decision and time-to-market is realized. <H3><A HREF="links/evaluate_embedded_SOC.html">evaluate embedded SOC</A></H3> Virtio also proactively addresses the risk of waiting until late in the design schedule to integrate the hardware and software product elements. <H3><A HREF="links/hardware_IP_intellectual_property.html">hardware IP intellectual property</A></H3> 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. <H3><A HREF="links/Intellectual_Property.html">Intellectual Property</A></H3> MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and licenses high-performance, high-value, embedded 32- and 64-bit intellectual property and core technology for digital consumer and embedded systems market. MIPS Technologies reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) designs are licensed to leading semiconductor suppliers, foundries, ASIC developers, and system OEMs for use in products such as set top boxes, digital cameras, video game systems, routers and handheld computing devices. <H3><A HREF="links/intellectual_property_prototyping.html">intellectual property prototyping</A></H3> MIPS Technologies intellectual property can be found in a wide range of digital consumer applications ranging from video games including PlayStation" and the Nintendo64? game consoles; handheld personal devices running Microsoft Windows CE? including IBM WorkPad", Samsung? PalmPC and NEC? MobilePro" 750c and digital set-top boxes from General Instruments, EchoStar Communications and WebTV. Additional applications include arcade games, communication devices and more. <H3><A HREF="links/IP_intellectual_property_evaluation.html">IP intellectual property evaluation</A></H3> MIPS Technologies architecture is also used extensively in traditional embedded applications. The MIPS? architecture powers applications such as laser printers from Hewlett-Packard, Okidata and Lexmark; numerous copiers; as well as routers from Cisco, Bay Networks; network computers from Tektronix and Network Computing Devices, Inc. and more. <H3><A HREF="links/IP_intellectual_property_integration.html">IP intellectual property integration</A></H3> 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. <H3><A HREF="links/IP_intellectual_property_re-use.html">IP intellectual property re-use</A></H3> Virtio developed its unique Internet capabilities by leveraging its patent pending graphical simulation technologies. Virtio's graphical Virtio Solutions are used for embedded IP evaluation, concurrent software and hardware development, and early system integration. <H3><A HREF="links/IP_prototyping.html">IP prototyping</A></H3> Virtio Solutions allow prototyping of both the software and the hardware at the early stages of the design cycle. Using Virtio Integrator, system architects and system designers can create a complete model of today's complex systems in a matter of 1-2 weeks. <H3><A HREF="links/MIPS_Technologies.html">MIPS Technologies</A></H3> Significantly less development time is required the system is modeled at a high-level of abstraction focusing on the system's functionality--not on the implementation details. <H3><A HREF="links/Open_SystemC_Initiative.html">Open SystemC Initiative</A></H3> Reduced cost virtual prototypes have minimal production costs therefore they can be used by a large number of users without the need to create physical boards. <H3><A HREF="links/SOC_design.html">SOC design</A></H3> Fast processor models: or instruction-set simulators, connected to standard software debuggers, enable the loading and execution of the real software on the prototype. <H3><A HREF="links/software__IP_intellectual_property.html">software IP intellectual property</A></H3> Hardware / peripheral models: standard processor peripherals, busses, and hardware accelerators can be captured as high-level C/C++ models, and compiled and executed on top of a system simulator, to capture the hardware portion in a design. <H3><A HREF="links/system__prototyping.html">system prototyping</A></H3> Co-simulation APIs: between the processor models and hardware simulator enable a seamless communication between the hardware and software domain. <H3><A HREF="links/system-on-chip.html">system-on-chip</A></H3> Test Bench / human-machine interface models: like the keyboard and LCD of a cell phone, mimic the real appearance of and interaction with the system being designed, and generate "real" stimuli to the prototype. <H3><A HREF="links/Virtio.html">Virtio</A></H3> Virtual platforms span multiple levels of accuracy, ranging from functional-accurate, timed-accurate to cycle-accurate models. They combine instruction-accurate or cycle-accurate processor models and functional peripheral models, and employ appropriate bus functional models whenever needed. <H3><A HREF="links/virtual_IP_prototyping.html">virtual IP prototyping</A></H3> For example, software development typically requires only functional accurate models, with relatively little detail incorporated in the peripheral models. Exploiting this capability will render models that allow designers to boot operating-systems on top of the prototype. <H3><A HREF="links/virtual_system_prototyping.html">virtual system prototyping</A></H3> </body>