TOKYO–(EMWNews – July 21, 2008) – TRANGO Virtual Processors®, the leading provider of

embedded virtualization IP, delivers greater isolation and portability of

operating systems and drivers on the TI OMAP™ 3 platform. The TRANGO

Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time

operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS,

eCos, µC-OSII, µITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3

platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance

gain over ARM11 based processors. The combination delivers isolation,

flexibility and cost optimization benefits to the design of today’s

convergent wireless devices.

Leveraging the high-performance and low power consumption of TI’s OMAP3430

multimedia applications processor, the TRANGO Hypervisor is the perfect fit

for mobile platform designers who want to find the optimal balance between

the effective reuse of legacy features, the development of new

functionality, the secure sharing of common hardware resources,

time-to-market, and cost constraints.

With secure platform virtualization, OEMs benefit from an inherently secure

architecture, easier porting of a rich OS or RTOS to the hardware, and

highly portable drivers. On the TI OMAP3430 processor the TRANGO Hypervisor

offers the ability for OEMs to reduce or even eliminate driver changes in

moving from one OS platform to another OS platform, with a positive impact

on the resultant development and validation effort.

“Our product allows developers to eliminate porting costs associated with

peripheral drivers and makes rich OS porting extremely fast,” stated Pierre

Coulombeau, Chief Operating Officer at TRANGO Virtual Processors. “With the

release of the TRANGO Hypervisor based on TI’s OMAP3430 processor,

customers benefit from a highly portable platform with best-of-class

hardware, the market’s leading isolation architecture, and an unprecedented

ability to port software swiftly,” he added.

“TRANGO’s Hypervisor, when running on the OMAP 3 platform, provides mobile

manufacturers with a powerful platform software flexibility and re-use,”

said Markus Tremmel, worldwide wireless ecosystem manager at Texas

Instruments. “Mobile manufacturers get flexibility in their choice of

operating system.”

The TRANGO Hypervisor for TI’s OMAP3430 processor will be demonstrated this

week at Expo Comm Wireless Japan, running Linux, Windows CE 6.0, and µITRON

simultaneously and securely.

The TRANGO product is available on the ARMv5/ARMv6/v7 and MIPS32/MIPS64

embedded architectures, supports a broad choice of OS and RTOS including

Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, µC-OSII, µITRON and other

proprietary RTOS. It is shipped with a complete SDK and tool suite based on

Eclipse.

About the Texas Instruments Developer Network

Trango Virtual Processors is a member of the TI Developer Network, a

community of respected, well-established companies offering products and

services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a

broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering

services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to

make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun.

Trademarks:

OMAP is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Other product or service names

mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

About TRANGO Virtual Processors

TRANGO Virtual Processors is a leading provider of virtualization IP for

embedded processors, licensing the TRANGO Hypervisor to major semiconductor

and device manufacturers. The company helps customers build robust

isolation architectures, deploy new value added services, and reduce their

development costs as well as their bill-of-materials. Headquartered in

Grenoble, France, TRANGO Virtual Processors has sales and support offices

in the US, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

http://www.trango-vp.com