SAN JOSE, Calif.—July 27, 2009—Virtutech®, Inc., the leader in virtualized systems development (VSD), today announced Simics support for the multi-core and multithreaded RMI® XLR® MIPS64 family of processors and the customizable, Tensilica Xtensa™ core. Now developers can create virtualized systems comprised of RMI or Tensilica cores side-by-side with any number or combination of supported processor, DSP[], or board.

“Simics support for the RMI XLR MIPS64 multithreading processor cores enables developers to create fast, virtual models of complex RMI-based platforms that can connect with additional boards and complete racks of equipment across standard networks,” said Mark Litvack, director of business development, RMI. “Simics’ ability to model the full system accelerates product development and integration while removing the dependency of hardware availability – both important factors for today’s mixed platform designs.”

By virtualizing complex, mixed architecture systems combined with features such as speed, checkpointing, reverse execution and dynamic configuration, Simics allows engineers to adopt a virtualized systems development approach, resulting in faster product definition, development and deployment in comparison to traditional hardware centric approaches.

“Fusing Tensilica’s software tools and components with Simics capabilities enables earlier integration of Tensilica’s IP into the customer’s product,” said Chris Jones, director of strategic alliances, Tensilica, Inc. “Simics now allows customers to integrate Xtensa cores into the virtual system giving developers a level of visibility, control and repeatability that is simply unavailable within a physical hardware environment. The result is faster delivery of products to market and a significant impact on the bottom line.”

Simics supports semiconductor manufacturers and their customers in high-performance computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications and networking industries. With the addition of RMI XLR MIPS64 and Tensilica Xtensa support, Virtutech’s library of supported processors now expands to 42 across eight processor and DSP families, each complemented by off-the-shelf models for hundreds of individual devices, boards, and system components.

“The support of Tensilica and RMI ensures that our customers will have a rich solution for market-leading CPUs and cores as they design and deploy heterogeneous, multi-core and multiprocessor systems,” said Michel Genard, vice president of marketing for Virtutech, Inc. “The rapid growth and adoption of virtualized systems development by semiconductor manufacturers and their customers shows that traditional hardware-based development processes do not scale for today’s complex software-based systems, multicore[] architectures and aggressive schedules. With Simics, it is no longer necessary to wait until the hardware is available before defining, developing and deploying key OS, applications and systems software.”