Cortus opens office in Silicon Valley

SUNNYVALE, USA: Cortus, cost effective, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP specialist, announces that they have opened an office in Silicon Valley. They have also recruited Jack Dean to head up applications engineering in the Americas.

Dean brings extensive technical experience in the development of hardware and software for embedded systems and systems on chip (SoC). He has previously managed the development of hardware platforms and software for automotive and industrial customers at Renesas Electronics America. He has also managed the development of embedded software at JM3 Digital and platform test/verification at Synopsys.

"We are delighted to be opening an office in Silicon Valley. This is the first major step in the worldwide expansion of Cortus. We are also delighted that Jack Dean has joined us bringing experience of automotive, industrial and security applications," said Michael Chapman, CEO and President of Cortus.

The Cortus family of APS processors starts with the world's smallest 32-bit core, the APS1, and goes up to the floating point FPS6. All cores interface to Cortus' peripherals including Ethernet 10/100 MAC, USB 2.0 Device and USB 2.0 OTG via the efficient APS bus. They also share the simple vectored interrupt structure which ensures rapid, real time interrupt response, with low software overhead.

The APS toolchain and IDE (for C and C++) is available to licensees free of charge, and which can be customised and branded for final customer use.

To date over 500 million devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processor cores.