UltraSoC announces significant product update, improved support for analytics and ‘any CPU’ capability
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UltraSoC announces significant product update, improved support for analytics and ‘any CPU’ capability

Enhances analytics, visualization and optimization features, Eclipse support, general availability of new processor and communications modules

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, 16th May 2016 -  UltraSoC today announced the latest version of its advanced semiconductor IP and software tools for  SoC development, debug, optimization and hardware security. The latest release in UltraSoC’s continuous development program includes extended support for data analytics and visualization, improved performance monitoring and system optimization capabilities, enhanced integration with third-party tool-chains, improved support for functional safety applications, and General Availability (GA) of new analytics and communications IP.

As the cost of developing complex SoCs continues to rise, and the business risks from schedule slippage become larger, the industry has realized that better tools for debug, verification and optimization are critical. The advent of emulation and prototyping platforms has eased pre-silicon tasks, but post-silicon verification and optimization remains a major challenge for the industry. UltraSoc addresses this challenge.

Many of the new capabilities and features are in software and tools – particularly in interfacing and supporting standard development environments. Specifically:

New hardware and semiconductor IP capabilities include:

“UltraSoC is committed to an aggressive program of continuous development for our products,” said Rupert Baines, UltraSoC CEO. “Our technology helps SoC developers to understand how their chip really operates post-silicon: simplifying software development, accelerating time-to-market, fixing bugs and optimizing performance. The new capabilities we are announcing today, engineered in response to extensive customer feedback and experience in the field, represent another step forward in the paradigm shift we are enabling in SoC design; improved analytics and visualization; addressing a far wider range of hardware applications; and giving SoC teams complete freedom in their choice of development flow and tools.”

UltraSoC’s suite of silicon IP allows designers to create an on-chip infrastructure that non-intrusively monitors the digital aspects of the chip’s behavior – both hardware and software. The engineering team can gain a much more intimate understanding of the often complex interactions between diverse on-chip processor blocks, custom logic, and system software. These capabilities are valuable both in development and in-field, when they can be used to spot unexpected behavior caused by bugs or by malicious interference, and to analyze performance trends.

UltraSoC was recently named by Gartner Inc as one of its  “Cool Vendors” in the Embedded Software and Systems market; and recognized by Mishcon de Reya and City AM in its  Leap 100 list of the UK’s most exciting, fast-growth companies. Last fall the company was named  Best New Company at the 2015 Elektra Awards.

About UltraSoC

UltraSoC is an independent provider of SoC infrastructure that enables rapid development of embedded systems based on advanced SoC devices. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

For more information please visit  www.ultrasoc.com

 

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UltraSoC
Andy Gothard
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