PolyCore Software Launches New Multi-Core Software Company; Software platform targets rapidly...

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

electronicaUSA 2004

Booth 1139-S

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004

PolyCore Software, Inc. today announced the launch of a software company focused on the development and distribution of tools, inter-processor

communication framework, and run-time software for multi-core systems. With today's demand for pervasive computing, digital consumer, telecommunications, industrial automation, and medical markets are seeking ways to maximize performance and bandwidth and minimize cost without increasing the power consumption through higher clock speeds. More and more semiconductor vendors expect multi-core solutions to meet this need.

To address the complexity of multi-core designs, PolyCore Software will provide the Poly-Messenger(TM), scheduled for release by Q3 2004. Poly-Messenger enables application developers to design, program, and manage multi-core systems. Founders, Sven Brehmer, previous president and CEO of Diab Data and senior director of Wind River Systems' Embedded Platforms Division, and Pascal Coppens, previous product marketing manager at Wind River Systems, bring together a team of experts in embedded tools, run-time and multiprocessor system software.

Recognizing the need for a high-performance, yet flexible inter-processor communications framework, the PolyCore Software team has designed a software platform supporting different logical and physical network structures that allows migration of applications from a single- to multi-core product. Poly-Messenger helps the developer describe, simplify and manage the multi-core development process starting from a single-core programming model. Poly-Messenger provides a platform for reuse of legacy code, offering vendors a much-needed migration path where previously written code can be optimally distributed across multiple cores. Poly-Messenger offers an intelligent message-based, unified interface, providing an abstraction layer to the underlying interconnections, whether industry standard or proprietary.

"With the ever-increasing number of transistors per chip rising to 1 billion by 2007, a gap exists between the capabilities of silicon and those of the development tools and systems software for multi-core products," noted Sven Brehmer, president and CEO of PolyCore Software. "This gap creates a development barrier and a high cost of entry for developers. By simplifying the programming and management of reprogrammable multi-core silicon, PolyCore Software lowers the total cost of using these chips, making them viable for a broader range of applications."

"Markets, such as digital consumer, telecommunications, industrial automation, and medical, continue to push applications to deliver more functionality and intelligent communication on devices which cost the end user less," observed Pascal Coppens, vice president of marketing at PolyCore Software. "Reprogrammable multi-core platforms offer such competitive markets the potential benefits of increased performance, power efficiency, scalability and upgradeability. By simplifying the programming environment, PolyCore Software is able to offer multi-core solutions for much better value."

PolyCore Software will release an early access version of Poly-Messenger in July 2004 with the product release scheduled for Q3 2004. Poly-Messenger offers a next-generation software infrastructure for embedded multi-core inter-processor communication. Poly-Messenger is scalable, performance driven and flexible and offers a unified interface. It supports both connectionless message passing and intelligent data transfers. Real-time responsiveness will maximize performance for bandwidth and latency. Poly-Messenger supports different types of interconnects, networks, processors, and services of varying complexity.

About PolyCore Software, Inc.

PolyCore Software, Inc., a privately held company, simplifies software development and management of multi-core systems, to improve their performance, power consumption, scalability and upgradeability, while preserving existing software investments. PolyCore Software provides run-time solutions for multi-core platforms, serving markets as digital consumer, communication infrastructure, industrial automation and medical. For more information, contact PolyCore Software at 650-570-5942, visit www.polycoresoftware.com or come see us at electronica USA/Embedded Systems Conference booth 1139-S.