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."