Critical Blue collects $2m fundingRichard BallScottish design tool developer Critical Blue has gathered $2m in first round funding and appointed Peter Denyer, founder of CMOS image sensing firm Vision, to its board of directors. David Stewart has been promoted to chief executive, with interim-CEO Ben Hounsell becoming v-p of business development.
Critical Blue's Cascade software was announced in May. It analyses a hardware
and software system and generates a coprocessor to offload intensive tasks away from the main processor. The coprocessor can directly run the native code of the main processor.