Does your multicore program drive like a car with a blown tire or an overheated engine? With the number of processors on a chip increasing, the growing use of hardware accelerators, and the competition for shared resources, programmers need tools that will help them get rolling and unearth the full potential of high-octane hardware designs.

In addition to harnessing the hardware power, multicore programming tools must support models to enable applications to scale, advocate for the preservation of existing software investments, and simplify the increasingly complex architectures of many processors and accelerators.

Markus Levy (Multicore Association President) and Sven Brehmer (Chairman of the Multicore Communications API Working Group and President of PolyCore Software, Inc.) will discuss the roadside service options for approaching these challenges and getting your multicore program in turbo-charge mode.

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February 22, 2012 9AM PST

SAN DIEGO & BURLINGAME, Calif.– Express Logic, the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS) and PolyCore Software, Inc. (PSI), the leader in multicore communications software solutions, today announced extended cooperation to increase support of multicore platforms. To enable applications to more quickly adapt to Tensilica’s multicore configuration, PSI’s Poly-Platform^TM now supports Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS on Tensilica’s Xtensa^TM multicore devices. This partnership enables developers to take full advantage of multicore platforms, while easing software development and increasing performance.

Poly-Platform is a collection of productivity tools and a runtime communications stack that simplifies the process of developing applications for multicore architectures. Using Poly-Platform, designers effortlessly optimize performance, improve time-to-market, and preserve existing and future software investments. With Poly-Platform, engineers are able to quickly configure and reconfigure the application, and when the time comes to implement new multicore solutions, existing code may be reused and scaled from one to many cores. Poly-Platform supports the Multicore Association’s Multicore Communications API (MCAPI), providing users with an efficient, standardized programming paradigm.

Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS, deployed in over 1 billion electronic devices, is a small-footprint, fast run-time environment that supports Tensilica Xtensa processors, and now supports Poly-Platform’s operation on Xtensa multicore devices.

“The combination of ThreadX and Poly-Platform for Xtensa provides multicore configurability from the application level to the silicon,” said Ted Gribb, vice president of sales, PolyCore Software. “This capability optimizes the application-specific multicore platform while accelerating time to market.”

“Poly-Platform provides ThreadX customers with an integrated platform that quickly moves single-core applications to many core architectures.” said William Lamie, president, Express Logic. “PolyCore Software simplifies the multidimensional challenge of programming in a multicore environment. Our joint offering achieves faster time-to-market, a critical factor in succeeding in today’s highly competitive marketplace.”

Rapid enablement and scalability of multicore applications improve the competitive advantage in the multicore race. For more information, please visitwww.polycoresoftware.com/products and www.rtos.com.

About PolyCore Software, Inc.

PolyCore Software, Inc., provides development tools and run-time solutions to simplify application development and improve development productivity for multicore, multi-processor architectures. Improvements in time to market, development costs and risks are achieved through software reuse, ease of use development tools, and the generation of optimized run time program elements. Design for today’s architectures and run on tomorrow’s architectures. For more information, please visit www.polycoresoftware.com or emailsales@polycoresoftware.com.

About Express Logic and ThreadX

Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX® RTOS, the high-performance NetX™ TCP/IP stack, the FileX™ embedded MS-DOS compatible file system, and the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack. All products from Express Logic include full source code and have no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic solutions, please visit the Web site at www.expresslogic.com, call 1-888-THREADX, or e-mail inquires to info@expresslogic.com.

ThreadX, TraceX, and FileX are registered trademarks, and Certification Pack, NetX, CANX, USBX, StackX, PEGX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, and UDP fast path are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

(Read article at Business Wire)

Sven Brehmer, President & CEO of PolyCore Software, is a founding member of the Multicore Association and chairman of the Communications API working group. Prior to founding PolyCore Software, Brehmer served as senior director for Wind River’s Embedded Platforms Division as a result of the acquisition of Integrated Systems in 2000, where Brehmer served as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of DIAB-SDS. Brehmer was also President and CEO of Diab Data after receiving his Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ted Gribb is PolyCore Software’s Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining PolyCore Software, Gribb had sales management positions for Wind River, Diab Data and Mentor Graphics. Previously, he held management positions in software engineering. Gribb received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from DeSales University.

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PSI’s Poly-Platform facilitates seamless scalability from single core to multicore architectures, enabling designers to take full advantage of sophisticated compute engines, accelerators and custom configurations. Using a friendly GUI (graphical user interface), the topology can be diagrammed and defined as a map that helps streamline the process of building and running the application. This efficient process significantly cuts development time and lets developers optimize application performance. Several scenarios can be tested in a short period of time.

Chip designers increasingly use multiple Tensilica DPUs in their design, each DPU optimized for a particular function in the data path, such as audio, baseband DSP, security, image processing, or more. Tensilica’s DPUs are easily optimized for these compute-intensive applications.

“PolyCore Software’s Poly-Platform speeds the process of mapping application software to multiple Tensilica DPUs,” statedSteve Roddy, Tensilica’s vice president of marketing and business development. “Ideally, during the design the software and hardware teams can use tools like Poly-Platform with our own processor design tools to make the best hardware/software tradeoffs. But even after the chip is made, the software team can greatly benefit from using Poly-Platform for the most efficient mapping of their software to our cores.”

“Many semiconductor companies and OEMs have incorporated one or multiple Tensilica DPUs in their SOCs,” said Sven Brehmer, president and CEO, PolyCore Software. “Our software gives developers the freedom from programming directly to the hardware interfaces, allowing them to quickly deploy their code on the various IP cores in that chip.”

About Tensilica

Tensilica, Inc. is the leader in dataplane processor IP cores (DPUs). Dataplane processors (DPUs) combine the best capabilities of DSPs and CPUs while delivering 10 to 100x the performance because they can be optimized using Tensilica’s automated design tools to meet specific and demanding signal processing performance targets. Tensilica’s DPUs power SOC designs at system OEMs and seven out of the top 10 semiconductor companies for designs in mobile wireless, telecom and network infrastructure, computing and storage, and home and auto entertainment. For more information on Tensilica’s patented, benchmark-proven DPUs visit www.tensilica.com.

About PolyCore Software

PolyCore Software, Inc., provides development tools and run-time solutions to simplify application development and improve development productivity for multicore, multi-processor architectures. Improvements in time to market, development costs and risks are achieved through software reuse, ease of use development tools, and the generation of optimized run time program elements. Design for today’s architectures and run on tomorrow’s architectures. For more information, please visitwww.polycoresoftware.com.

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Multi-chip, multi-processing, multi-execution path technologies have been available for decades and have been used to solve complex problems and improve performance. Since single-core technology could address the vast majority of compute needs with constantly increasing performance, the tools and buzz was centered on single-core processors.

The computer world is changing as should be the case. Three factors continue to be the key drivers:

• Power: Increasing the MHz for a single core is approaching the physical limits. Whether the product is battery-operated or tethered by a power cord, developers are seeking to improve the performance/watt ratio.
• Performance: Application features and functionality will continue to expand, which fuels increasing compute performance.
• Consolidation: The progression of more capabilities on a single chip. Applications currently running on multiple processors will move to multicore, and applications currently running on multicore will move to denser multicore chips.

The programming model chosen for multicore applications must have the flexibility to address all three factors. While addressing power has been the focus of many single-core applications moving to multicore, the discussion presented addresses the latter two factors – consolidation and performance.

(Read full article by Ted Gribb at EE Catalog)

(Read full article at Elektronik Praxis)

Poly-Platform facilitates a significant improvement in time-to-market by allowing users to quickly begin their development cycle, as well as the ability to make adjustments toward an optimized design. The application can be streamlined for TI’s high performance multicore processors and is also scalable, allowing rapid transition to next generation architectures. Poly-Platform’s scalability allows for development on TI’s multicore DSPs to be used in future designs.

(Read full article at PR Newswire)

Normally, MPI would be implemented once in each server to handle the messaging traffic. But with multicore servers using more than a few cores, it can be very expensive to use a complete MPI implementation because MPI would have to run on each core in the computer in an asymmetric multi-processing (AMP) configuration. The Multicore Communications API (MCAPI), on the other hand – a protocol designed with embedded systems in mind – is a much more efficient way to move MPI messages around within the computer.

(Read full article by Sven Brehmer, Markus Levy and Bryon Moyer at EE Times)

(Read full interview of Sven Brehmer and Markus Levy at softtalkblog)

Poly-Templates is an Eclipse based, flexible GUI tool that helps developers to quickly take advantage of the industry standard MCAPI, and simplifies the development process by providing MCAPI code templates that are wizard-based, and communications topology aware. The Poly-Templates/MCAPI 2.0 environment improves development time and code quality by significantly speeding up programming and reducing coding errors.

(Read full article at PR Newswire)