VaST Virtualization Makes EETimes List of People, Places and Things Shaping Our Future

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Virtualization is ranked among the top people, places and things shaping our future, according to a February report by EETimes magazine. The article, which quoted VaST in its virtualization entry, examined the most influential aspects of the modern electronics industry to compile its list.

The news piece noted that shrinking time-to-market windows are creating a requirement that today's designs work the first time. VaST notes that designers are abandoning hardware prototypes in droves for electronics virtualization, because it can cut as much as eight months off a schedule and keeps warranty costs down.

Virtualization abstracts and forecasts redundant details when designing electronic control units. For example, before a cell phone is built, virtualization can gauge its talk time or the number of data transmissions it can process for its battery. For vehicle designs, designers can build a virtual system prototype for each engine control unit, including its specific processor, cache, clock rate and peripherals.

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