ADVISORY/System Validation Demonstration from Carbon Design Systems Featured at TI Developer Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY... for Wednesday (Feb. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Who: Carbon Design Systems(TM), Inc. of Waltham, MA, is an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. company that reduces time-to-profit for chip companies by enabling pre-silicon system validation with KHz fast, RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; accurate, soft-models of chips and systems. What: Carbon will demonstrate SPEEDCompiler(TM) and DesignPlayer(TM) at the upcoming TI Developer Conference. SPEEDCompiler reads synthesizable Verilog and generates a DesignPlayer engine that includes an optimized C API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. for system integration and an interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. manager for design debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. . DesignPlayer engines are easily linked into the user's native software development environment to allow critical foundation software -- drivers, diagnostics, and firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. -- to be validated on the "golden" RTL hardware model. The engine communicates with the software development environment through its C API or optional bus transactors. Software developers are free to use their favorite language, compiler compiler Computer software that translates (compiles) source code written in a high-level language (e.g., C++) into a set of machine-language instructions that can be understood by a digital computer's CPU. and debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. . At the system level, DesignPlayer engines can represent multiple chips that encompass hundreds of millions of gates. When: Wednesday February 18 and Thursday February 19, 2004 12:05 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Where: Exhibit Hall (Woodway II, III) The Westin Galleria 5060 West Alabama, Houston, TX 77056 Information Links: For more information about Carbon or its products, please visit http://www.carbondesignsystems.com. Information about the TI Developer Conference can be found at: visit http://www.tidevcon.com. About Carbon: Carbon is delivering software products that enable pre-silicon system validation, where thousands of users can simultaneously develop and test software on the 'golden' RTL hardware implementation model. For the first time, critical foundation software -- drivers, diagnostics, and firmware -- runs at KHz execution speed on the 'golden' model with cycle and register accuracy. This opens the door for system validation and IP deployment to begin much earlier than traditional methods. Carbon Design Systems, Inc. is privately held and funded by Matrix Partners, Flagship Ventures, and Commonwealth Capital. The corporate headquarters is located at 375 Totten Pond Road, Suite 100/200, Waltham, MA. 02451. Telephone: 781-890-1500, Facsimile: 781-890-1711, Email: info@carbondesignsystems.com, Website: www.carbondesignsystems.com Note to Editors: Carbon Design Systems, SPEEDCompiler, and DesignPlayer are trademarks of Carbon Design Systems, Incorporated. All other companies and products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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