Designing hardware, firmware, and software solutions is challenging developers to push the envelope of innovation. The demand to deliver a quality product to market in a timely manner also drives this process.

Creating the development environment necessary to support this work can be daunting. Distributed teams of chip designers, engineers, developers, and testers each working at different rates, using a wide range of design and development tools need to be coordinated.

The Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system can help. Perforce is used by many companies in the embedded industry to deliver their next generation products, manage mass customization of their ideas, and support customers in the field.

Perforce Features for the Embedded Systems Industry

Concurrent Development

Perforce enables designers, developers and testers to concurrently develop hardware, firmware and software. Perforce has an open interface that can support a range of EDA, software development, simulation, and testing tools.

Performance and Data Integrity

Perforce is the fast SCM system. Perforce uses a highly efficient TCP/IP based messaging protocol to transfer data between client and server, thereby reducing the latencies associated with NFS solutions. Perforce is extremely efficient with handling large data sets. All modifications to a developer's workspace are managed at the server level as the changes occur, avoiding time-consuming sweeps through the local data to determine the state of a commit. All transactions are atomic to protect large-scale data commits.

Variant Management and Rapid Prototyping

Perforce employs fast and efficient branching and merging functionality for the on-demand creation of custom variants and prototypes.

Branches are created quickly, using minimal disk space, and changes are propagated easily between branches using intuitive graphical merging tools. The number of branches that Perforce supports is practically unlimited.

Collaboration

Distributed teams can work together on the same products regardless of their location. Perforce caches important files locally for each team while ensuring real-time access to the state of development across the entire project.

Improved Time to Market

Perforce makes everyday tasks simple and quick. With real-time updates of all development activity, costly changes based on outdated information are avoided.

Low Administration Costs

Perforce requires near-zero administration so additional administrative staff are not required. With a low per-user cost, Perforce offers a strong SCM solution with a low total cost of ownership.

More than 320,000 people in 5,000 organizations use Perforce to develop innovative, secure applications. Read how Perforce compares with the competition.

Download a free, 2-user, 5-client version of Perforce today and start to streamline your design and build processes for embedded systems.

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