Enea Simplifies Multicore Migration with New Software Platform

Enea Simplifies Multicore Migration with New Software Platform

Legacy Application Investments no Longer a Barrier to Multicore
Transition

STOCKHOLM, Embedded World, Nürnberg, Germany; March 1, 2011 - Enea today
announced that in order to ease the transition to multicore processing
for its current and future customers the company will launch the Enea
Multicore Migration Platform (MMP).  The MMP will help developers of
multicore systems to migrate legacy applications from unicore to
multicore preserving investment, while at the same time enabling the use
of the latest high-performance multicore devices. The MMP combines
proven best practices and powerful software all backed by Enea product
and professional services to meet the direct concerns of equipment
providers. 

“Enea has already successfully migrated a major Tier 1 customer with our
Hypervisor technology with full guest OS support, including Linux,” said
Marcus Hjortsberg, vice president of marketing at Enea.  “If you are
interested in migration of your legacy applications to the latest
multicore devices, then you should look into Enea's proven multicore
migration platform. Whether your goals are device differentiation, bill
of materials reduction by consolidation of processing devices, or
increased performance through the use of multicore, Enea has the
solution to help guide you.”

The MMP addresses a number of critical challenges in migrating to
multicore such as deploying a legacy OS on a multicore device,
identifying and dealing with shared state, partitioning and load
balancing issues, profiling and performance optimization, using new HW
features together with legacy SW, live guest OS and SW upgrades. To
reduce development time and risk associated with the above challenges,
MMP is built on the Enea Hypervisor with additional tools, extensive
migration documentation, example guest OS integrations, shared device
drivers and other reference source code.

The Enea Hypervisor is designed to support any legacy OS as guest, and
provides the ability to extend a system with Linux. The hypervisor
provides a thin para-virtualization layer for Linux and other guest OS
with no intervention or interference from the underlying microkernel
based services layer. A complete fault redundant device framework that
supports common services across all cores and individual core restart
without full device reboot. The MMP also supports bare-metal execution
environments in conjunction with legacy OS and SW. All guest OSs and
services can utilize a shared and common interprocess communications
technology called Enea LINX that makes multicore applications easier to
program, partition and scale. An integrated Enea Optima tool chain
rounds out the package offering system level debug, profiling and
optimization.

“We are pleased that Enea is tackling the critical issue of simplifying
the migration to multicore processors,” said Danny Mulligan, marketing
director for Freescale Semiconductor's Networking Processor Division. 
“We expect that this platform will reduce the barriers of multicore
adoption and provide our joint customers with the information and
technology to more rapidly take advantage of our latest QorIQ products”
  

The MMP will first be launched on Freescale's QorIQ P4080 processor with
the company's QorIQ  P1/P2/P3 families of devices available to follow.

For more information

Nordic:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
catharina.paulcen@enea.com (catharina.paulcen@enea.com)

North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email:
chris.lanfear@enea.com (chris.lanfear@enea.com)

Asia Pacific:
Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com (fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com)

Europe:
Mia Åkerström, Marketing Communications, EMEA
Phone: 46 8 507 140 24 or email:
mia.akerstrom@enea.com (mia.akerstrom@enea.com)