Support for Prism on MontaVista Linux will drive faster adoption of multicore platforms and deployment of end products on leading commercial Linux

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — December 21, 2009 — MontaVista® Software LLC, a leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, and CriticalBlue, a pioneer in embedded multicore software analysis, exploration and verification tools, announced today CriticalBlue has joined the MontaVista partner program and will make their Prism product available on MontaVista Linux 6 and Montavista Linux Carrier Grade Edition products.

This announcement continues the broadening of Prism integrations with key players in the multicore software development eco-system by adding support for an industrial strength, commercial quality Linux. Prism is an award winning embedded multicore programming system which allows software engineers to easily asses and realize the full potential of multicore processors without significant change to their development flow. Prism analyzes the behavior of code running on either hardware development boards or simulators. It allows engineers to take their existing sequential code, and without making any changes, explore and analyze opportunities for concurrency. Having identified the optimal parallelization strategy in this way, the developer will implement parallel structures, and use Prism again to verify efficient and thread-safe operations.

MontaVista Linux is the first commercial Linux provider to be supported by Prism. The Prism Eclipse plug-in will be integrated into the MontaVista DevRocket integrated development environment (IDE), providing the most advanced embedded Linux development environment for multicore software on the market. MontaVista customers will now be able to quickly analyze the potential benefit of new, high performance, multicore software platforms for their existing application code and develop new code and quickly tune it for operation on multicore processors, all within a single MontaVista DevRocket environment, and all in the familiar Eclipse framework.

Prism is available today for ARM and MIPS cores with several other leading multicore processor architectures coming in Q1 2010.

Supporting Quotes:

“Developers need to analyze their real world applications running on commercial Linux platforms like MontaVista Linux using common frameworks like Eclipse,” said David Stewart, CEO, CriticalBlue. “By partnering with MontaVista, and integrating with the MontaVista DevRocket IDE, Prism will support the broadest range of platforms on a commercial quality Linux, allowing our joint customers a way to rapidly ensure safe and timely migration of their software onto multicore platforms and efficient exploitation of the parallelism inherent within.”

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Key Points:

• MontaVista is based in Santa Clara, Calif.
• CriticalBlue is based in Edinburgh, U.K.
• Partnership will help speed development of multicore software applications and hence accelerate the time to market of end products based on multicore platforms.
• Integration with Prism allows MontaVista customers to analyze their existing single threaded application code for use in multicore platform.
• Prism technology is an Eclipse plug-in and is based on dynamic tracing of the users’ software execution
• MontaVista DevRocket is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE).
• Developers can work in a familiar Eclipse environment using both MontaVista and CriticalBlue development tools.
• Prism is available today for ARM and MIPS cores with several other leading multicore processor architectures coming in Q1 2010.

Resources:

MontaVista Products

CriticalBlue Products

MontaVista Blogs

CriticalBlue Blogs

Linux Webinars, white papers, and more

MontaVista on YouTube

MontaVista on Twitter

Meld Embedded Linux Community

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), is a leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com

About CriticalBlue

CriticalBlue is a pioneer of flexible, automated system design solutions that meet the increasing performance, power, and cost demands associated with the delivery of advanced electronic products within today’s demanding design schedules. The increasing use of complex, multicore processor architectures has accelerated demand for CriticalBlue’s technology and expertise throughout all electronic industry sectors. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, with offices in San Jose, California, and Tokyo, Japan, the company has delivered multiple solutions for key aspects of embedded software design, including Prism, a multicore embedded software design environment, and Cascade, a software accelerator synthesis technology. The company is funded by European, US Silicon Valley, Japanese venture capitalists and corporate investors. To learn more, please visit www.criticalblue.com

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. MontaVista is a registered trademark of MontaVista Software, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including statements regarding the availability, plans, development, expected features and expected benefits of MontaVista and CriticalBlue products, which involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that MontaVista and CriticalBlue face that could cause results to differ materially including risks associated with any unforeseen technical difficulties or software errors related to the final development and launch of any of MontaVista’s or CriticalBlue’s products; or the integration of MontaVista’s and CriticalBlue’s products. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and neither MontaVista nor CriticalBlue assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

 

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 am and is filed under News.