Virtutech Vision

More than ever, time-to-market is the single most challenging issue that sophisticated electronic equipment manufacturers need to address and ultimately control in order to remain competitive in today’s fast-changing world. However, this goal remains frustratingly elusive. Two factors militate against existing, and largely piecemeal, efforts to drive improvements in this area: rapidly increasing system complexity, and ever more stringent demands upon overall system quality.

Virtutech allows a fundamentally different approach to be taken, one that brings a new dimension of agility to the product development life cycle: virtualized software development.  This uniquely enabled strategy allows OEMs to undertake critical software development activities on a virtual platform, independently of any hardware development schedules, semiconductor availability constraints or other limitations.

Simics, Virtutech’s flagship development platform, provides a binary-compatible instance of the target hardware, but one which operates completely within a virtualized environment running on standard laptop or desktop PCs. By providing this unique capability, Virtutech breaks a project’s dependence on physical hardware for effective software design, implementation and test, fostering truly concurrent hardware and software development activities in ways that change the nature of the overall product development process. Virtutech therefore enables customers to manage complexity, drive improved quality and achieve higher productivity, all while lowering capital expenditure and shortening total development time.