COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products and systems, today announces the availability of the Everyware™ Device Cloud, which enables organizations to bring data from device to business application with one complete, integrated solution to turn bits of data into valuable and actionable information.  The Everyware Device Cloud offers the first end-to-end device cloud solution in the industry, allowing organizations to access an integrated hardware, software, cloud computing, data management and application integration solution.  

Details about the Eurotech Everyware Device Cloud: www.eurotech.com/best-tco

“VDC Research sees the Eurotech approach as a harbinger of solution development, deployment and management strategies in the future. That future will enable deployers to focus more on business logic and less on fundamental compute, control and communication technologies,” comments Chris Rezendes, Executive Vice President of VDC Research Group.  “The resulting solutions will better meet the universal enterprise goal of greater agility through broader access and more accurate application of real time mission critical data from embedded applications.”

It used to take weeks, months and even years to plan, procure, and deploy IT infrastructure to connect embedded devices to the network and capture valuable data. Today you can do it in minutes. The Everyware Device Cloud collects, analyzes, and transmits data in real-time, giving organizations faster, better access to data from every device in the field for improved business management and operations.

The Everyware Device Cloud offers Eurotech customers the following benefits:

• Complete Solution – Most complete offering in the industry, from device to edge controller to desktop or mobile display
• Fast Time to Market – Projects can be deployed quickly, with applications up and running in days instead of months
• Reduced Costs – Without the need for the customer’s IT infrastructure to grow, both initial cost and total cost of projects are dramatically reduced
• Scalability – Ability to easily scale to a large number of devices with on-demand access
• Optimized Technology – Uses MQTT, continuous session awareness, and leading-edge protocols to reduce bandwidth requirements and simplify connectivity

“With the Everyware Device Cloud, organizations can concentrate on their core business while reducing time to market and efficiently accessing essential device data to support their business logic,” said Arlen Nipper, CTO of Eurotech in North America.  “Eurotech is on the leading edge as the embedded device industry begins to embrace cloud-based services for a lower total cost of ownership.  With a strong background in embedded devices as well as software toolkits, we are uniquely qualified to offer customers the most flexible hardware and middleware building blocks to harmonize the various platforms for their application.”

The Everyware Device Cloud offers a robust, reliable and flexible communication infrastructure leveraging the Isidorey Device Cloud technology and services.  Coupled with the hardware running the Eurotech Everyware Software Framework (ESF), the Everyware Device Cloud becomes a complete data management and delivery solution for comprehensive distributed device platform support including sensors, scalable edge nodes and networking devices- whether mobile, stationary, portable, or wearable devices.  Eurotech offers a broad range of standard interfaces and APIs that make the Everyware Device Cloud ideal for any business application integration.

The Everyware Device Cloud is also available through a Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) purchasing model, an attractive, scalable option in which the customer pays a predictable monthly fee for the data and services provided.  With no upfront hardware or software investment required, Eurotech simplifies customers’ access to the most complete Device Data Management solution.

ABOUT EUROTECH

Eurotech is a listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services, and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and sub-systems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, sub-systems, ready-to-use devices and high performance computers to market, specializing in healthcare, security, defense, transportation, industrial and energy segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

Shanghai, China – November 15, 2010 – S2C Inc., a leading rapid SoC prototyping solutions provider,announced that S2C customers can now buy DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready IP that work with S2C’s4th generation S4 TAI logic module. The Prototype Ready IPs enable customers to have out-of-box 2G Bytes of DDR2 SDRAM operating at up to 533Mbps or 2GBytes of DDR3 SDRAM operating at up to800Mbps on S2C’s Altera Stratix IV based FPGA prototypes. Getting FPGA DDR2 and DDR3 memoriesto run at these high frequencies requires significant engineering. S2C has pre-engineered these designsto allow engineers to quickly create SoC prototypes.

The DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready IPs utilize the memory controllers supplied by Altera QuartusSoftware and have been pre-mapped and fine tuned to work at high-performance with selected DDR2and DDR3 SO-DIMM memory tested by S2C. With the purchase, customer will get a TAI Player software project file, which has the entire reference design already mapped to S4 TAI Logic Module, and documentation giving step by step instructions on how to run the DDR2 or DDR3 memory. Customer caneasily adjust DDR2/3 clock frequencies in the TAI Player software to verify that the read and writeoperations are correct at different clock speeds.

S2C’s DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready IPs are useful reference designs to speed SoC development regardless of the actual memory controllers utilized in the final SoC implementation. S2C’s goal is to ensure that customers can first get their SoC prototypes with DDR2 and DDR3 external memory up andrunning in shortest possible time with Altera’s supplied memory controllers. If customers have needs toverify their designs with the actual memory controllers in the SoC, the settings in the Prototype Ready IP such as pin assignments, timing constraints and other Altera Quartus settings can then be used as references.

“Large external SDRAM memory is often a critical element in today’s digital system design and there isan ever increasing need to have a stable SoC prototype on FPGA with large high-performance DDR2 and DDR3 external memories,” said Mon-Ren Chene, S2C’s Chairman and CTO. “Running DDR2 and DDR3 at high-performance on FPGAs is not easy and if not engineered properly can lead to poor and unstable system performance. S2C’s DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready Kits are pre-engineered to eliminate these potential problems. Our goal is to continue to provide our customers with pre-engineered solutions that will shorten the time to achieve a working SoC prototype resulting in shortened design cycle enabling our customers to beat their competition to market.

“DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready IPs are now available on all S4 TAI logic modules. The S4 TAI LogicModule is S2C’s 4th generation SoC prototyping hardware which facilitates much higher system prototype performance and reliability through enhanced power management, cooling mechanisms and noiseshielding. S4 TAI Logic Module can mount either one or two Stratix IV FPGAs and supplies up to 30 million ASIC gates of capacity and provides 1,286 external I/O connections on one board. Multiple TAI Logic Modules can be stacked or mounted on a interconnect mother board to meet even larger gate count needs.

Rapid SoC Prototyping

S2C focus is on reducing SoC development times via rapid SoC prototyping. Our vision is to provide theSoC developer the tools and building blocks to rapidly create and verify the functionality of the SoC. Once the functionality is verified, the hardware and software development can begin in parallel. Using the SoC prototype as a software development platform is not only orders of magnitude faster than computes simulation but can surface errors sooner since the software is running in real system conditions. This hasa huge impact on SoC development schedules as software is increasing consuming SoC developmentresources. SoC development costs are soaring, but moreover the SoC Software development cost is thefastest rising cost. SoC Software is becoming the bottleneck for many projects as more functions aretightly integrated into a SoC and requires large number of engineers to develop and test software concurrently.

About S2C

Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoCprototyping tools since 2003. S2C provides:

S2C’s value proposition is our highly qualified engineering team and customer-focused sales force thatunderstands our customers’ commercial SoC development needs. S2C’s unique FPGA-based electronicsystem level (ESL) solution, using our patented TAI IP technology, enables designers to quickly assemble FPGA-based SoC prototypes on S2C FPGA boards easily and securely. This enables customers to start software development, typically the long pole item in development schedules, immediately. Combiningrapid prototyping methodologies with a comprehensive portfolio of Prototype Ready IP and advanceddesign solutions, S2C can reduce the SoC design cycle by up to nine months.

S2C currently has 3 direct offices located in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen to meet the demand foraccelerated SoC design activities in China. S2C is also the organizer of the annual SoCIP seminar and exhibition in China, which brings SoC designers/professionals from the Asia-Pacific region together withinternational silicon IP and SoC solution vendors. For more information, visit www.s2cinc.com.