Texas Instruments has entered into a one-year agreement with Virtio to leverage Virtio's Virtual Platform for several of TI's solutions, including its OMAP platform for mobile devices. By using the Virtio Platform to speed software development schedules, TI is enabling customers and third parties to more rapidly introduce new devices and applications into the marketplace based on TI technology. Virtio's Virtual Platforms give handset manufacturers and third parties a full-function hardware-equivalent solution, enabling software developers to boot an operating system and debug application code long before hardware becomes available. Once physical boards become available, Virtio Virtual Platforms provide a stable environment for developers to do fine-grained, multi-core debugging using existing software development tools and debuggers. TI uses Virtio's products and services to accelerate embedded software development and system-level validation of TI OMAP application processors, reference designs and development systems. Both TI and Virtio will work together to proliferate this model for developing complete solutions to TI's OEM customers and third parties. TI is currently using Virtio's Virtual Platforms and Platform Development Kits for its OMAP application processors, the OMAP-Vox family of wireless solutions, 2.5G and 3G chipsets, and the DA295 and other imaging and audio processors.
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