Cortus opens Silicon Valley office

23rd October 2013

Cortus S.A.

Nat Bowers

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Cortus announce the opening of a new office in Silicon Valley and the appointment of Jack Dean to head up applications engineering in the Americas. A graduate of California State University, Mr Dean, brings extensive technical experience in the development of hardware and software for embedded systems and SoCs.

Previously managing the development of hardware platforms and software for automotive and industrial customers at Renesas Electronics America, Jack Dean has also managed the development of embedded software at JM3 Digital and platform test/verification at Synopsys.

Michael Chapman, CEO and President of Cortus, commented: “We are delighted to be opening an office in Silicon Valley. This is the first major step in the worldwide expansion of Cortus”. He adds, “We are also delighted that Jack Dean has joined us bringing experience of automotive, industrial and security applications."

The Cortus family of APS processors starts with the world’s smallest 32-bit core, the APS1, and goes up to the floating point FPS6. All cores interface to Cortus’ peripherals including Ethernet 10/100 MAC, USB 2.0 Device and USB 2.0 OTG via the efficient APS bus. They also share the simple vectored interrupt structure which ensures rapid, real time interrupt response, with low software overhead.

The APS toolchain and IDE (for C and C++) is available to licensees free of charge, and which can be customised and branded for final customer use. Ports of various RTOSs are available such as FreeRTOS, Micrium ?C/OSII and ?CLinux.

To date over 500 million devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processor cores.