Availability of High-Speed Models Suitable for Systems Development, Integration and Test Allows Renesas to Provide their OEM and Systems Customers the Design Methodologies and Tools to Get Their Systems ‘Right First Time’

CoWare Technology and Deployment Services Expertise Used for Optimized System Architecture and Accelerated Software Development

Standards-based Solutions for Pre-silicon Software Development Accelerate Collaborative Development of the Industry’s First Triple-Core Automotive MCU

CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced the successful collaboration with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) in Japan to support CoWare’s open SystemC modeling library (SCML) APIs for the creation of highly reusable virtual platforms for architecture design and software development within CoWare’s ESL 2.0 environment using STARC’s new transaction-level (TL) modeling guideline.

CoWare (RTM) Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced simultaneously at the Wireless Broadband World Forum 2006 in Seoul, Korea, and the WiMAX World Europe Conference & Expo 2006 in Vienna, Austria, a new WiMAX Reference Library integrated into CoWare Signal Processing Designer (formerly known as SPW). Covering IEEE 802.16/16e standards, this library will allow SoC design teams using the CoWare platform-driven ESL design solution, to reduce time-to-market introduction by six months for every product generation. The CoWare solution allows optimization of WiMAX SoC implementation performance for the noise performance relevant in rural areas and interference performance in densely-populated areas, both of which impact the operator’s network capacity.

CoWare(R)Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced today its new Virtual Platform product family that will enable the company to expand into the software development market. CoWare Virtual Platform product family delivers new tools and technologies that support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation. Virtual hardware platforms are models of the device hardware and the environment they evolve in, and are suitable for the development and validation of an entire device software stack up to the application level. They also enable electronics companies to engage more effectively with their customers and ecosystem partners. The solution is integrated with and supports the CoWare platform-driven ESL strategy.

CoWare(R), the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced a major strategic move into the embedded and application software development market for electronic devices. Platform-driven ESL design is used in the development of electronic devices in markets such as consumer, mobile and wireless, networking, and automotive. With more than one half million software developers focused on embedded and application software for devices (according to Gartner Dataquest, San Jose, Calif.), this expansion represents a significant opportunity for CoWare to grow and deliver new solutions to electronics companies.