ARM reveals RealView System Generator

BANGALORE:

ARM

today announced at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco,

Calif., the ARM RealView System Generator tool, a tightly integrated member of

the RealView series of tools, which enables platform providers to rapidly

generate, by themselves, instruction-accurate virtual prototypes that are

scaleable, reusable and fast enough to interact with in real time.






“Virtual platforms that provide the software developer with an early view of the
hardware and peripherals represent a big step forward in the ongoing push toward

concurrent development of the entire system,” said Daya Nadamuni, vice

president, Gartner Dataquest. “Because a high-level representation of the

hardware allows application development to begin much earlier in the design

cycle, software developers can explore different options, test and verify the

product and still hit the market window.”






The RealView System Generator tool gives hardware and software engineers the
power to create and modify their own system models, which keeps NRE costs under

control and protects unique IP by dispensing with third-party consultancies. The

speed of the generated virtual prototypes is comparable to the speed of

currently available mobile devices, making it possible to test application

software as it will appear on the end device, months before hardware is

available.






“For a highly differentiated consumer electronics product to succeed,
electronics vendors need a way to generate application software, perform testing

of hardware and application software integration and validate the end-user

experience as early as possible,” said Bryn Parry, general manager, Development

Systems, ARM. “The RealView System Generator tool provides a target early in the

design cycle that enables these tasks, and is easy to deploy.”






Silicon vendors, OS or software vendors or system OEMs working with SoC- or ASIC-based
systems benefit from the RealView System Generator tool because it enables

application software development in parallel with hardware development, thus

reducing integration time. Creative professionals, such as application

engineers, artists and designers developing multimedia content, can use the

virtual platforms created in the System Generator tool to accelerate development

and validate the user experience.






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