platformOViA Promotion Activities

(1) Release of software interface
NEC Electronics will release the interface for application software, with particular focus on multimedia such as video. As a result, capitalization on the software thus achieved will be possible. <1> Parallel development of applications and middleware, which are increasingly being developed on an individual basis, will be possible. <2> Expandability will increase and it will become possible to easily incorporate user software.

(2) Active provision of software components
Software components for the above-mentioned interface will be readied for 6 areas by FY2006.
Through the selection of these software components, the efficiency of development work by users and within NEC Electronics will be greatly boosted, and product development times will be shortened.

(3) Collaboration with software vendors
By the end of FY2005, NEC Electronics will have collaborations with more than twenty major software vendors including Access Co., Ltd., Aplix Corporation, Wind River Japan, Esmertec, Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd., Softfront Corporation, and MontaVista Software Inc., and will provide software components supporting open standard OSs such as Linux. By the end of FY2006, NEC Electronics will have concluded partnership agreements with approximately 50 companies throughout the world. As a result, it will be possible to directly use the rich distribution software created by powerful software companies as is, allowing efficient software development.

(4) Market launch of semiconductor products
By the end of FY2005, NEC Electronics will launch semiconductors for digital home appliances, and by FY2006, semiconductors for mobile phones.