- Virtutech
Infobox_Company
company_name = Virtutech Inc.
company_
company_type = Corporation
foundation =1998
location =San Jose, CA
key_people =CEO : John Lambert, Founder : Peter Magnusson
industry =Software Technology
num_employees = Private
products =Simics
homepage = [http://www.virtutech.com/ www.virtutech.com]Virtutech was founded in 1998 as a spin-off from the
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004, the headquarters was moved to San Jose, California, USA. The Stockholm site remains the company's R&D center. The company's main product isSimics software, used by teams ofsoftware developer s to simulate computer systems. This facilitates the development, testing, and debugging ofembedded software that runs devices such as high-end servers, network hardware, aerospace/military vehicles, and automobiles. Virtutech markets products that allow embedded software developers to create virtual models of hardware using an ordinary desktop computer, run specified sets of tests, and walk the programs through each step of execution, both forwards and backwards. See theSimics Wikipedia article for more on the product.In 2001,
AMD and Virtutech began working collaboratively on simulation for AMD's Hammer chips. [ [http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010116S0020 TechWeb January 16, 2001] "AMD To Use Virtutech To Simulate Hammer Chip"] . In July 2005,IBM selected Virtutech Simics for development of itsPOWER6 platform. [ [http://www.power.org/news/pr/view?item_key=987e901a36553fe16cbea1b81b5d4e019286e4ca Power.org 9 July 2007] "Virtutech Simics Optimizes Product Development of System P Server Product Line"] . In 2007, Virtutech andFreescale announced a collaboration program around multicore processors [ [http://www.sdtimes.com/article/embedded-20070801-01.html SDTimes August 1, 2007] "Freescale Ups the Multicore Ante: Hybrid simulation environment to allow fast-forward to tricky spots"] . Virtutech thus appears to have a customer base that is partly in the embedded software world, and partly in the general computing and server world.Virtutech is a member of
Power.org .As
embedded systems become more complex, especially with the advent ofmultiprocessor s, it has become increasingly difficult to develop and debugembedded software without the use of specialized tools. Virtutech's idea is to provide tools that allow developers to develop software faster than they would using hardware and traditional development methods. In particular, by modeling a complex hardware system using software running on an ordinary workstation computer, Virtutech claims to reduce the challenge of embedded software development [ [http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9970/ddj060201dc/ Dr. Dobbs Podcast] - Peter S. Magnusson explains how multiprocessing is driving the need for simulation in systems-level debugging.] .Links
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Simics , the main Virtutech product
* [http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171202387 EE Times] - Virtutech system-level simulator features Hindsight technology
* [http://www.virtual-strategy.com/article/articleview/1229/1/2/ Virtual Strategy Magazine] - New CEO John Lambert on Virtutech Present and Future
* [http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/03/10/1731230.shtml?tid=156&tid=218 Slashdot] - Hindsight: Reversible ComputingReferences and Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.virtutech.com Virtutech]
* [http://www.simics.com Simics]
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