Teja's software will be used in such Niagara platforms as SunFire T1000 and T2000, Netra T2000, and ATCA blades.

Akash Deshpande, chief technology officer at Teja, said that the company's alliances to date primarily had been with semiconductor companies such as Intel Corp. and Broadcom Crop., though the company had worked with server-blade OEMs on a case-specific basis.

"Since we will be providing the data path technology for CoolThreads, this could be considered the most significant deal for us on the OEM front," Deshpande said. "Sun will serve as our OEM channel."

The Teja NP Lightweight Run-Time Environment, or LWRTE, will form the heart of services in Sun's Network Data Plane Suite, or NDPS. Teja also supplies the application development environment for LWRTE, integrating operations on the control plane and data plane, and allowing developers to visualize the effectiveness of multithreading operations between software resources and multicore hardware elements.

The run-time environment is written in C in explicitly parallel fashion for what Teja calls "bare silicon execution." Teja will provide the tools for debugging and profiling software using the Niagara processor in the multiple systems offered by Sun.