Imperas Releases Fast Models of PowerPC Processors Through Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) Initiative

Open Source Models Available Now for Free on OVP Website

THAME, United Kingdom, June 8, 2010 – Imperas, which through the Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative (www.OVPworld.org) has become the de facto source for instruction accurate processor modeling and simulation, today announced the release of fast models of PowerPC processors. These models work with the OVP simulator, OVPsim, where they have shown exceptionally fast performance reaching over one thousand million instructions per second (MIPS). The models are free and available as open source from the OVP website.

The addition of the models of the PowerPC cores brings OVP to nearly 50 different models of processor cores, all running at very high speed, and all working with both the OVP and Imperas simulators. All OVP processor models are instruction accurate, and very fast, focused on enabling embedded software developers to have a development environment available early to accelerate the software development cycle. Virtual platforms utilizing these OVP processor models can be created with the OVP peripheral and platform models, or the processor models can be integrated into SystemC/TLM-2.0 based virtual platforms using the TLM-2.0 interface available with all OVP processor models. In addition to working with the OVP simulator, these models work with the Imperas advanced tools for multicore software verification, analysis and debug, including key tools for software development on virtual platforms, such as OS and CPU-aware tracing, profiling code analysis, and multicore debug.

“The Power Architecture is an important embedded processor family,” said Simon Davidmann, president and CEO, Imperas and founding director of the OVP initiative. “Users have been asking for fast models of the PowerPC processor cores, and we’re now able to deliver these models, open source and free, through Open Virtual Platforms. This is just a continuation of the momentum in the OVP initiative.”

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For more information about Imperas, please go to the Imperas website.About the Open Virtual Platforms Initiative (www.OVPworld.org)

For more information about OVP, please go to the About OVP page on the OVP website. Detailed quotations regarding OVP are available from http://www.ovpworld.org/newsblog/?p=42.

Fast Instruction accurate models are available from the OVP website for MIPS, ARM, Virage ARC, NEC v850, Power Architecture, OpenCores, SPARC and other processor families.