PowerEscape rounds out software development tool line

PowerEscape rounds out software development tool line:

"SAN FRANCISCO — Startup PowerEscape Inc. Tuesday (Nov. 8) introduced PowerEscape Insight, a tool promising to improve the data-efficiency of algorithms in the initial phases of development, enabling software developers to improve performance and minimize the need for time-consuming assembly code optimization.

PowerEscape said that while traditional software optimization has focused on computational efficiency by replacing sections of C code with assembly code, optimizations for data efficiency can be made much earlier in the development cycle by simply changing C code to reduce data movement between memories and the processor using its product line. In addition to achieving higher performance and lower power, data-efficiency increases software portability and time-to-market, the company said.

'Customers have proven that with our products they can improve software performance while reducing power consumption by a factor of 3 or more,' said Guido Arnout, president and CEO of PowerEscape, in a statement. 'Improving data efficiency has become key to achieving higher performance, lower power and higher performance per watt.'

According to PowerEscape (Palo Alto, Calif.) the introduction of PowerEscape Insight rounds out the company's line of tools for data efficient software development, providing relevant technology from the creation of reference algorithms to the optimization of software for a specific memory platform. PowerEscape's product line also includes PowerEscape Architect and PowerEscape Synergy.
PowerEscape Architect, Synergy and Insight are available immediately.

The products run on Microsoft Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux or Red Hat Fedora Core and Apple Mac OS X Tiger. Pricing information was not provided ..."