Ricoh, Vayavya Labs enters into a licensing agreement

Ricoh Company Ltd has announced that they have entered a licensing agreement with Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd. for using DDGen to accelerate development of device drivers.

DDGen generates device drivers for different operating systems from a formal specification of the peripheral's programming specification.

Ricoh will be using DDGen for different peripherals present in their products - including USB host/device controllers, network controller, flash memory devices, etc.

Naoya Morita, Embedded Platform Development Department at Ricoh Company Ltd., said, "As a system provider, we would like to have every IP be ready to be incorporated into the systems. In order to establish such state, it is essential to have a tool like DDGen, which enables us to automatically generate device drivers based on data such as IP-XACT (with extensions), and to manage all IPs with IP-XACT.We have been searching some tools like DDGen to cut down cost, time and effort while meeting the time-to-market demands. We are encouraged by the early results shown by DDGen."

The licensing engagement follows a positive recommendation from an earlier study by Ricoh that looked into various aspects of the DDGen methodology - including quality of the generated code.