Virtutech, Inc. is the leading provider of virtualized software development solutions. Virtutech's flagship solution Simics models electronic systems with high performance and fidelity, providing a programmer-friendly environment throughout the product development lifecycle. Simics eliminates software developers' dependence on hardware and drives concurrent hardware and software development.

Virtutech pioneered this new virtualized software development strategy based on research originally undertaken at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). The team behind Virtutech was the first in academia to run commercial server operating systems in a simulation framework. In 1998, Virtutech became the first spin-off from SICS, based on the strength of commercial projects undertaken with Ericsson, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, and was profitable in its very first year of operation.

Company's Primary Business Model
Virtutech sells primarily through direct enterprise sales, licensing our Virtutalize Software Development environment directly to end users.

Company Objective
Virtutech provides virtualized software development environments that support heterogeneous target architectures, including ARM technologies.

Primary Solution
Virtutech's primary offering is Simics.  Simics is the base environment on which virtualized systems run, hundreds of which are available off-the-shelf.  Simics is further extended by links to the "real" world, and additionally is integrated with third-party cycle accurate simulators.

Simics  provides software and system developers with a virtual version of their target hardware. The virtual target hardware operates completely within a virtualized environment running on a standard laptop or desktop PC, without needing any special hardware. The virtual hardware runs the same binary software as the physical target system, including firmware, device drivers, operating system, middleware stacks, and the application software. Software for the target machine runs unmodified on the virtual hardware, at a very high level of performance.

Target Markets?
Virtutech is most deeply involved in the network equipment, aerospace, and telecom  industries.  What is provided in these areas are highly flexible fast-functional VSD environments that allow customers to begin software development in parallel with hardware development, accelerate time to market with a higher quality standard at lower overall cost, with significantly lowered development risk.

What is unique about the solutions from Virtutech?
Virtutech's Simics VSD environment is unique in it's speed and scalability; there is no other platform that can model systems as complex and as completely, running at a speed required for software development purposes, with advanced features such as: full determinism and reversability, the ability to spread complex simulations across several host processors to dramatically accelerate simulation speed, and the ability to interoperate with several instruction-set simulators allowing for a hybrid Fast-Functional and Cycle-accurate VSD.

Company History with ARM
How long has the company been working with ARM?
1 year now.

Why have you chosen to work with ARM?
ARM technologies are widely deployed in embedded applications.  As ARM SoC’s become more complex, more OEM’s are looking for ways to deploy a virtualization solution for their product and software development. By working with ARM we expect to be connected to ARM OEMs and been promoted by ARM as valuable solution for their customers.

Additional information:
Virtutech Whitepapers:
http://www.virtutech.com/whitepapers
Virtutech Product Datasheets:
http://www.virtutech.com/datasheets

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