Aisys Inc. Announces Cooperative Agreement with MIPS Technologies to Deliver Embedded Design Automation Solution
Santa Clara, CA - September 25, 2000 -- <%=company%>, an automated embedded design tool vendor, today announced that it has joined the MIPS Alliance Program. The agreement calls for Aisys Inc. to provide its flagship product, DriveWay Device Driver Design Environment to support the MIPS32 architecture immediately, with a roadmap for future support of the MIPS64 architecture. In addition, Aisys Inc. will offer its DriveFast consulting services to MIPS Technologies customers and licensees, currently totaling 26 chip vendors.
DriveWay automates the integration of hardware and software for the creation of embedded systems such as networking and digital consumer applications that use the MIPS32 architecture.
"The ability to automate design tasks with 'smart' software like DriveWay gives MIPS developers a tool that can raise product quality while shortening time to market," said Mark Otto, third-party business development manager at MIPS Technologies. "Aisys' tool support provides an immediate competitive benefit to new MIPS-based designs underway."
Why use DriveWay?
In an embedded system design, DriveWay is used to automate the creation of device drivers, boot code and software glue, which can save up to 70% of design time and 50% of development cost. Without a device driver automation tool, embedded design engineers would have to manually write these drivers, code and glue, a tedious process that can add months to the development cycle of an end product.
"The combination of MIPS architecture and Aisys DriveWay technology will provide a powerful vehicle for embedded systems design," said Elan Roth, vice president of business development. "This agreement with MIPS Technologies allows designers of MIPS-based products to reduce their design time by a significant factor."