Tools Vendors
Altera Corporation is the world’s pioneer of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. With annual revenues in CY 2000 of $1.4 billion, Altera combines the programmable logic technology originally invented in 1983 with software tools, intellectual property, and design services to provide high-value programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. Altera is headquartered in San Jose, California.
SofCheck Founded by a team of internationally recognized leaders in the development of programming languages and compiler technology, SofCheck, Inc. is a premier Ada tools, and automated software quality (ASQ) solutions company.
SofCheck’s Ada conversion solutions allow organizations who have significant investments in Ada programs and systems to migrate these intellectual assets to new target languages and platforms while retaining 100% of the program functional value. SofCheck’s AdaMagic technology is a set of components for incorporation in compilers and other tools that must process Ada 83 or Ada 95 source code. The two modes of AdaMagic’s conversions are either to use C\C++ as a run time target and continue to maintain the programs source code in Ada, or to support a one time conversion which results in fully supportable and maintainable C\C++ source code with all the comments and variable names maintained.
SuperH, Inc. is a semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) licensing company and is the leading supplier of multimedia RISC CPU cores to companies building system-on-chip (SoC) products. SuperH, Inc. develops RISC CPU cores, the SuperHyway BusTM on-chip interconnect and software development tools. The SuperH(TM) family today includes the 32-bit SH-4 and 64-bit SH-5 CPU cores and is ideally suited to multimedia applications that require a single CPU core executing a mix of general purpose code and DSP algorithms. SuperH CPU cores are targeted at consumer, automotive, telecom and handheld multimedia appliance markets with specific emphasis on set top box, residential gateway, car information systems, modems, digital camera and multimedia players.
Founded in 1998 and acquired by NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) in 2007, Jungo Ltd. is a market leader in connectivity solutions for USB and PCI interfaces, offersing a complete set of software and embedded software products. Jungo’s product line includes WinDriver – a driver development toolkit which enables developers to easily create customized device drivers for a wide array of operating systems and platforms, and DriverCore which offers standard USB Drivers, allowing device manufacturers to expose a variety of native communication interfaces via USB to different operating systems and platforms. Jungo also offers USBware – a complete and proven embedded USB software protocol stack. In addition, Jungo provides the USBHost Tester platform, an embedded USB host testing solution which allows developers to automatically test their embedded USB host by simulating thousands of common devices found in its extensive database.