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Aisys, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop a device-driver automation solution targeting voice over cable modem applications. This solution will support TI's newly announced voice over cable modem solution, which includes TI digital signal processors (DSP) and communications and MIPS processors.

The Aisys/TI agreement marks the first MIPS-specific DriveWay device driver development environment technology implementation by Aisys since joining MIPS Technologies' MIPS Alliance Program in September 2000. Currently, there are thirty chip vendors who are members of the MIPS consortium and who have licensed the MIPS32 core for the creation of high volume embedded systems such as networking and digital consumer applications. TI is a member of the MIPS consortium and has licensed the MIPS32 core for the development of its recently announced voice over cable modem solution.

In an embedded system design, DriveWay is used to automate the creation of device drivers, boot code, and software glue, which can save up to 70% of design time and 50% of development cost. Without a device driver automation tool, embedded design engineers would have to manually generate these drivers, code, and glue, a tedious process that can add months to the development cycle of an end-product.

"TI's MIPS cores and DriveWay together will help customers create more powerful integrated embedded solutions," said Elan Roth, Aisys vice president of business development. "Through this agreement with Texas Instruments, embedded designers using the TI MIPS cores will have access to DriveWay, which reduces embedded design time by a 2X factor."

Edited by Bruce A. Bennett
Managing Editor, Embedded Technology.com

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