Virtutech, Inc., the leader in Virtualized Systems Development (VSD), will demonstrate an integration of its Simics, Ready for Rational platform with IBM Rational Build Forge. 

Today’s systems include an increasing number of multi-CPU/ASIC/FPGA/DSP, platforms or network connected servers. As a result, the complexity and effort of developing, building, testing and integrating these systems has become a major challenge to many development teams.  
   
These challenges are eased through the adoption of VSD; the process of developing, integrating and testing full systems software like OS, driver, communication and application software, on a virtual system instead of real hardware. The use of a flexible virtualized system instead of rigid physical hardware dramatically improves “what-if?” scenarios for design exploration, early-integration, development team collaboration and debugging.  
   
IBM Rational Build Forge is a flexible, adaptive framework capable of adding process automation, acceleration, notification and scheduling capabilities to existing software for building, testing, packaging and deploying solutions. Now with the integration of Simics and IBM Rational Build Forge, the benefits of VSD extend to cover the software build, test, package and deploy cycle. 
 
Visit the Virtutech booth #522 at the IBM Rational Conference, Sunday, May 31-Friday, June 4, 2009 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.