Imagine the advantages of a chip solution that offers the time-to-market advantages and development ease traditionally associated with a general-purpose processor (GPP) or DSP-based system — combined with the performance boost of programmable logic. This would be the ideal solution for embedded system designers working on compute-intensive applications. Stretch is the first company to deliver such a solution.

Stretch's software-configurable processors meet the performance challenge by offering a familiar yet new design approach. Our software-configurable architecture achieves the following:

• Delivers the best of both hardware and software solutions 
  - The proven performance of tailored logic as instructions 
  - The time-to-performance of processors programmed in C/C++ 
  - The reduction in development time and risk 
  
• Cuts the system cost (trimming away multiple chips) 
  
• Addresses virtually any compute-intensive application in any market