Duolog Tools Available on the Cloud For Evaluation

We are very proud to announce that Duolog Technologies have now made available all of their products for hands-on evaluation on the Xuropa Demo Platform.

“The Socrates Lab on Xuropa puts our tools into the hands of our customers within minutes. This has given users the ability to efficiently evaluate Bitwise from the comfort of their desks,” said Ray Bulger, CEO of Duolog Technologies.

Here’s a little background on each of the tools that you can try for yourself:

Socrates Bitwise: Effective HW/SW integration is one of the biggest challenges facing System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams. Registers and memory-maps are at the heart of the HW/SW interface.  Bitwise manages the entire register and memory-map infrastructure for an IP or system, improving inter-team communications, enhancing design quality and greatly reducing workload.

Socrates Weaver: IP reuse and efficient IP integration are essential for successful SoC development. Weaver is a revolutionary tool for IP integration that is the fastest and most efficient way to build and maintain complex systems. The unique rules-based integration methodology employed by Weaver maximizes the potential for IP, subsystem and system reuse.

Socrates Spinner: Modern SoC devices typically support multiple static and dynamic operating modes. This can result in thousands of top-level signals that need to be mapped to hundreds of I/O pins, depending on the target application. Spinner manages this increasingly complex area by specifying and auto-generating all of the logic associated with the chip I/O layer.

Try Spinner, Weaver, and Bitwise for yourself!

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This post was written by James Colgan on November 15, 2011

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Need to get 4TB into the Cloud? No problem!

Great news from Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday - they’ve made it easier to get your data up into the cloud.  All you have to do is ship them the raw SATA drive and they’ll plug it in.  Easy!  And they’re now accepting capacities up to 4TB.

This is why we work with AWS - they’re constantly raising the bar higher and higher.  They take care of the infrastructure, and we deliver the Platform and Software layers to our Enterprise Software customers.

Anyone out there need more than 4TB?

This announcement got me thinking about the other direction of the data transfer that still hounds Enterprise Software vendors.  Most vendors still deliver most if not all of their products as client-side installs. 

With the goal of lowering the cost of sales, software and tools vendors enable customers to download from their website (the cloud) evaluation versions of their products.  This would be fine if these distributions hadn’t grown to be hundreds of megabytes themselves!  A very large semiconductor vendor told me that it takes a customer 3 1/2 hours to download their software over a T1 line in North America.  And of course, it takes many attempts for it to be successful.  Not a scalable model and one of the many reasons why we promote moving evaluations and pre-sales training to the Cloud using Xuropa.

The reality is, this problem is only going to get worse.   (Numbers provided by OECD.)

WW Broadband Penetration, OECD 2009

WW Broadband Penetration, OECD 2009

Broadband Pentration Growth, OECD 2009

Broadband Pentration Growth, OECD 2009

Software distributions are only going to get bigger, and with broadband penetration low and not climbing at a huge rate, something needs to change.  Of course, corporations will always be at the forefront of broadband adoption, but the rise of virtual teams and off-site workers will continue to exacerbate the problem of a lagging telecommunications infrastructure.

Although a full SaaS model would remove this problem.  There are many other obstacles and reasons why a complete move would not work for many of these software vendors.  However, moving the front end of the acquisition process (pre-sales training and evaluations) just makes sense.  Doesn’t it?

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This post was written by James Colgan on March 10, 2010

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The Xuropa Platform - Your Software in the Cloud

The Xuropa Platform is used by Enterprise Software vendors to deliver their products via the cloud as-is. “Cloud agnostic”, the Xuropa Platform provides the web experience, user management and analytics, and sales and marketing tools to deliver your application within an engaging web experience.

The Xuropa Platform can be used to deliver remote hands-on demonstrations, evaluations, and training. The platform can also be used for full Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery and monetization of your enterprise software.

Watch the below video to find out more.  Even better, contact us for a demonstration and to take the cloud for a spin! saas at xuropa dot com.

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This post was written by James Colgan on February 26, 2010

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