Texas Instruments Automating Embedded µC Design with Aisys Tool
Santa Clara, CA - September 25, 2000 -- <%=company%>, an automated embedded design tool vendor, today announced that Texas Instruments Inc., (TI) (NYSE:TXN) the world leader in digital signal processing (DSP) and analog, has standardized on the DriveWay device driver automation tool from Aisys.
Currently, DriveWay is being used by TI as a customer support component for its TMS470 family of microcontrollers for automotive applications and MIPS product solutions. The DriveWay tool for the TMS470 MCU family is available now, while the first MIPS tool will be introduced later this year.
DriveWay automates the integration of hardware and software for the creation of smart devices that are used in end-applications such as automotive and industrial control. This is the first time that Texas Instruments has offered a device driver automation tool to its 32-bit automotive microcontroller customers.
"TI is recommending Aisys' 'smart' software to provide customers with a tool which enables their products to get to market faster with higher quality through the automatic generation of device drivers," said Dave Maples, TMS470 new business development manager, TI. "TI chose DriveWay as an essential part of its support package for the TMS470 and MIPS products because Aisys is an industry leader in automating hardware-software interfaces."
Why use DriveWay? In an embedded system design, such as the TMS470 and MIPS products, 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 generate these drivers, code and glue, a tedious process that can add months to the development cycle of an end-product.
"Aisys is always looking for ways to offer its automation technology to a wider range of designers," said Nancy Chou, vice president of marketing. "This agreement with Texas Instruments makes DriveWay available for the first time to designers using the TI TMS470 and MIPS-based products, which reduces embedded design time by a 2X factor."