Amanieu Systems Ltd

Company description

Amanieu Systems developed Tango, a binary translation system that allows unmodified 32-bit ARM programs to run on 64-bit only ARM processors with high compatibility and comparable performance to native execution speed. They offer Tango software licenses and support services for commercial deployment or re-distribution.

Amanieu Systems develops and licenses binary translation software for running 32-bit ARM programs on 64-bit ARM processors.

Amanieu Systems Ltd builds on the research carried out at the University of Manchester on dynamic binary translator. The key product of Amanieu Systems is called Tango. Tango is a binary translation system for GNU/Linux and Android which allows unmodified 32-bit ARM programs to run on 64-bit only ARM processors. Tango supports the full 32-bit ARM and Thumb instruction sets, including floating-point (VFP) and SIMD (NEON) instructions. Tango can run all top 1000 Android apps and has a >99% pass rate on LTP tests. See more on compatibility Tango's performance running translated code is usually within 15% of native execution speed. See more on run-time efficiency Tango is production ready. Tango v1.0 was released in July 2019 and has been commercially deployed via early partner engagements.

Project impact

The ARMv8 architecture introduced AArch64, a 64-bit execution mode with a new instruction set, while retaining binary compatibility with previous versions of the ARM architecture through AArch32, a 32-bit execution mode. Most hardware implementations of ARMv8 processors support both AArch32 and AArch64, which comes at a cost in hardware complexity. The product Tango is helping the main Arm-based chip development companies to evolve their architectures without requiring the AArch32 hardware.