• CoWare Virtual Platform tightly integrates Fast Models from ARM for Cortex-M3, Cortex-R4, Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors;
• NXP uses the CoWare environment to port Linux on Cortex A9 processor-based designs ahead of RTL availability;
• NXP achieves significant savings for the software development and validation over traditional emulation-based development methods.

CoWare^®, Inc., the leading supplier of Electronic System Virtualization™ software and services, and ARM^® (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH), announced today that NXP has successfully deployed their joint software development solution, integrating Fast Models from ARM for Cortex™ processors™ in CoWare’s Virtual Platform technology. NXP uses the joint ARM-CoWare offering in their own SystemC based Virtual Prototyping Environment (VPE). The software development solution is enabling NXP to reduce development costs, improve software developer productivity and achieve faster time-to-market.

VPE is NXP’s internal development environment utilizing the virtualized representation of an electronic system. It removes the dependency on the availability of expensive hardware prototypes and development test benches and provides cost-effective software development capabilities for debugging and analysis. NXP’s VPE is based on CoWare’s technology. Using their VPE with the ARM^® Cortex-A9 processor-based Fast Model, NXP ported Linux in record time, ahead of RTL availability and faster than with traditional emulation based development methods. Support by CoWare’s services organization combined with key VPE features enabled this productivity boost.