San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Transitive Technologies and Alchemy Semiconductor today announced they are working together to enable application software written for ARM-based platforms to run on Alchemy's family of MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms. Transitive's Dynamite A/M is providing Alchemy with a “Synthetic ARM” CPU software engine that enables their family of products (including the Au1000 and Au1500) to translate ARM binary code to MIPS binary code.

The technology utilizes a CPU configurable software platform that allows code written for a subject instruction set architecture (ISA) to transparently run a target ISA at native speeds or better. The current implementation of Dynamite A/M runs on a Linux operating system. The company plans to develop future versions of Dynamite A/M next year, supporting WinCE as well as other relevant operating systems.

Transitive is demonstrating its ARM to MIPS platform, called Dynamite A/M, on Alchemy's reference design at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose this week, October 15-17.

 
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