Imperas to Demonstrate OVP During This Week’s Multicore Expo

Will Showcase Open Virtual Platforms Capabilities for Embedded Software Development of SoC Designs

THAME, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperas Ltd. will demonstrate Open Virtual Platforms (OVP), an open standard solution for developers to simulate embedded software on system-on-chip (SoC) designs, April 1- 2 during Multicore Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.

Simon Davidmann, chief executive officer and founder of Imperas, will participate in a panel titled, “Are Virtual Platforms an Enabler for Multi-Processor SoCs?,” moderated by Richard Goering, editor of SCDsource. It will be held Wednesday, April 2, from 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Also on Wednesday, Davidmann will give a presentation from 3:20-3:50 p.m. titled, “Virtual Platforms for Embedded Software Development.”

For more information about Imperas, visit: www.imperas.com.

Details on OVP can be found at: www.OVPworld.org.

To learn more about Multicore Expo, go to: http://www.multicore-expo.com/.

About Imperas

Imperas is focused on solving embedded software debug, verification and analysis issues through the development of methodologies, technologies and products, particularly as these issues occur on multicore platforms. To facilitate improved embedded software development and seed the ecosystem around this, Imperas initiated the Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) movement for high performance, open, free software virtual platforms. With an engineering base in the UK, Imperas distributes its products to customers worldwide. For more information, visit: http://www.imperas.com.

About OVP

Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) was initiated with the donation by Imperas of approximately $4 million of simulation infrastructure that enables chip designers and software developers to model platforms, systems on chips (SoCs), and multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs). The OVP technology is available for free from www.ovpworld.org and has the support of electronic design automation (EDA) companies, end users and intellectual property (IP) providers. For more details, visit: www.ovpworld.org.

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