Enea Extends its Optima Tools to Support Heterogeneous Multicore and Linux

Enea Extends its Optima Tools to Support Heterogeneous Multicore and
Linux

One Development Suite Covers both CPUs and DSPs for RTOS as well as
Linux Applications

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 3, 2011 - Enea (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) today
announced extended support in its Eclipse-based integrated development
environment (IDE) Enea® Optima (http://www.enea.com/optima)
(www.enea.com/optima (http://www.enea.com/optima)) for heterogeneous
multicore systems-on-chips (SoC) with both CPU and DSP processor
architectures. In addition to the profiling, log and debug capabilities
for the Enea OSE® RTOS on both CPUs and DSPs, Optima now also supports
the Linux operating system with C/C++ application debug functionality
and visualization and analysis tools that integrate with the familiar
Linux LTTng tracing framework.

“Software complexity is growing rapidly with the introduction of highly
integrated heterogeneous SoC solutions,“ said Marcus Hjortsberg, vice
president marketing at Enea. “To accelerate development schedules
developers need an integrated tool chain that offers full system
visualization and debug capabilities across CPU and DSP cores and a mix
of different operating systems including OSE and Linux“.

Optima is a suite of system and application development tools originally
designed for the OSE realtime operating system that allows users not
only to write, debug and optimize C/C++ applications, but also to
analyze and optimize system wide behavior. As the only operating system
that supports both CPU and DSP architectures, OSE provides a unified
programming model and API for heterogeneous SoC multicore processors.
Developers using OSE and Linux can now benefit from using a single tool,
Optima, to simultaneously debug and visualize software on both CPUs and
DSPs as part of a heterogeneous SoC, removing the need for multiple
different tools with different capabilities depending on whether
developing software for the CPU, the DSP, for an RTOS or Linux.

“Optima reflects Enea's deep understanding of the embedded software
design challenges and opportunities that heterogeneous multicore devices
present,“ said Scott Aylor, director and general manager of Freescale's
Wireless Access Division. “We look forward to working with Enea to make
Optima available for the innovative QorIQ Qonverge platform, which
combines Freescale's leading Power Architecture MPU and StarCore DSP
technologies in a single SoC”.

With the introduction of DSP support in the Optima System Profiler, all
of the Optima system visualization, optimization and analysis tools are
now available for both CPUs and DSPs. The System Profiler allows
developers to capture, visualize and analyze statistics such as
processor usage for a certain core, a certain program, or a certain
software thread, as well as statistics from application or hardware
level counters.

Since Optima integrates seamlessly with Eclipse-based tools from
hardware vendors, such as CodeWarrior from Freescale or Code Composer
Studio from Texas Instruments, the DSP-specific compilation and C/C++
debug tools and the standard Optima tools are all available within the
same integrated development environment, providing an end to end
software development solution for heterogeneous multicore devices.

For applications where criteria such as the breadth of the ecosystem and
availability of specific application or driver software is more
important than strict realtime properties, Linux is often the natural OS
choice for the CPU part of a heterogeneous CPU / DSP device. To support
such configurations, the Optima suite of tools has now been extended
with C/C++ debug functionality for Linux applications and with support
for the familiar Linux LTTng tracing framework. Since LTTng is a
standard part of the Linux kernel and included in most embedded Linux
distributions, Linux developers can now take full advantage of the
powerful visualization and analysis features of the Optima Log Analyzer.
This includes sequence chart presentation of process interaction and
I/O, Gantt chart presentation of thread execution, as well as log
information merge, compare, search and assertion facilities that
radically reduce the time required for failure and test result analysis.

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:
Bénédicte Bissey, Marketing Communications Manager, EMEA
Phone: 33 1 76 91 58 24 or email:
benedicte.bissey@enea.com (mia.akerstrom@enea.com)