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Processor Emulations & System-Level Virtual Prototypes
[Note: The following describes our product strategy in some detail; however, if you are only interested in a solution to your specific electronic processor or component obsolescence problem, please email us at sales@vptinc.com].
Emulations of Obsolete Military Products
If your system has electronic components (processors, interconnect and ASICs) that are either obsolete or will be, we can license these components in various retargetable formats (VHDL: hard or soft cores), as FPGAs, or as ASICs, ensuring you have a permanent proactive solution to the management of component obsolescence.
We support emulation of components that
may range from microcontrollers to recent multi-million gate microprocessors; furthermore, we will work with you to validate our core in your system prior to delivery, minimizing risk of technology insertion.
Your existing and expensive investments in system architecture,
legacy OFP software, and interfaces will be preserved, after insertion of the emulated components, through the application of our SmartSupplyChainTM technology.
Technical Foundations of Processor Emulation
For detailed technical information on processor emulations and their use in virtual prototyping of embedded electronics systems, please refer to our white paper: Virtual Prototyping of COTS Processor-Based Systems (PDF, 400kbytes).
See also our advance product literature on the MIL-STD-1750A processor emulations.
Customer Benefits
- Immediate benefits to you are system longetivity & readiness at a very attractive price. Since the original component is now available in retargetable VHDL, there are fewer risks, if any, of future problems
with parts or component shortage.
Colors of Money - You are only paying for the license to use the emulated components, and not for designing, prototyping, and validating them, the latter being at our expense and risk.
These licensing costs, payable over time, largely fall under maintenance and
operational support (O&S) line items, and not as developmental contracts.
[Please refer to National Academy Press Report, Page 30.]
Typical IP Licensing Process
For detailed information on typical and non-typical licensing processes for our processor and board-level emulations, please refer to our document: Typical Licensing Process & Milestones. (PDF, 70kbytes).
The licensed products may be commercial computer software developed exclusively at the licensor's expense. Accordingly, pursuant to US FAR Section 12.212 and Defense FAR 227.7202, use, duplication, and disclosure of the licensed materials by or for the US Government is subject to the restrictions in the license agreement. The manufacturer is the licensor.
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Virtual Component Libraries (Simulation)
- VHDL
models (RTL through Netlist) of commercial, military, and custom components, ranging from
processors (RISC, DSP, Microcontrollers, MIL-STD-1750, ...), Interconnect
(SCI, VME, HIPPI, MIL-STD-1553,...) at multiple levels of design abstraction
- RTL (Clock and Function Accurate) to Performance Level (Timing Accurate).
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Emulation of Electronic Components (As ASICs or FPGAs)
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We develop, provide, and support emulations of obsolete or legacy VLSI processors
either as FPGAs or as ASICs. We can also develop emulations and ASICs for you, based
on your instruction set and architecture. Our recent emulations include the
MIL-STD-1750A processor family of chipsets, and samples are expected to be available by
June 2002 for evaluation.
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Description of Our Technology
Click here
for sampling of our peer-reviewed, case studies, outlining VP's
original approach to virtual prototyping in system design. (Opens new browser window).
Click
here for a PDF Presentation on Re-Engineering, Design, and Code
Generation for Avionics Systems (Case Study: MIL-STD-1553-based Systems),
October 1998.
Click
here for a PDF Presentation on Virtual Prototyping of Controller
Area Network(CAN)-based Systems, November
1999.
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