Virtualized Software Development

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 customers report the following benefits from using Simics:

• Scalability—Using Simics as a unifying infrastructure, OEMs are able to develop multiple products from the same platform (typically from low-end to high-end), supporting virtually any OS from Linux to real-time operating systems.
• Fast and accelerated development/debug/test cycles—Given time-to-market constraints and the general demand for high-quality products in the market, Simics’ ability to not only model hardware but also to accelerate the development process is significantly decreasing development time by up to two-thirds as compared with other approaches.
• Reuse and flexibility—With Simics, customers can reuse functional models for subsequent products and projects, saving the company from future project expenditure that otherwise duplicate these efforts. Furthermore, Simics’ architecture enables customers to easily incorporate the virtualized software development strategy into their existing development environment so that no additional architectural changes are needed, thereby saving time and cost.
• Development asset—Using Simics, our customers are building libraries of models that enable them to configure and distribute virtual platforms to multiple development teams, significantly reducing the cost of the actual product needed for their entire product development cycle, and providing on-time and on-demand access to assets.

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.

Today, Virtutech is a market-leading company, with corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, its development center in Stockholm, and regional sales and support offices around the world. A private company, Virtutech is backed by venture capitals from Vision Capital, InnovationsKapital and Cadence. Virtutech serves the needs of the world’s leading OEMs and semiconductors in high-performance computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, and networking, including Cisco, Ericsson, Freescale, Honeywell, IBM and General Electric Aviation.