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Sequence Design is porting all its tools to Linux, and the first Linux-compatible products were featured in the company's dac demo suite earlier this month.
According to a recent EE Times survey (May 2003), Linux is poised to become the engineer's OS of choice by 2005 with close to 75% market share.
Besides supporting an increasingly popular platform, the switch to Linux is boosting Sequence performance numbers across the board.
For example, internal tests demonstrate PowerTheater runtimes are as much as five times faster on Linux than existing platforms.
Similar results - a 3x speedup - have been achieved with PhysicalStudio on a 64bit Intel Itanium 2-based HP workstation running Red Hat Linux.
In head-to-head comparisons of similarly powered workstations running Linux and competitive operating systems, Sequence tools routinely performed as much as 5x faster with Linux.
Sequence has ported both PowerTheater and PhysicalStudio to Linux.
The company plans Linux support for the rest of its tool portfolio by year's end.
 

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