Arexsys and Telelogic Announce System Design Industry's First SDL Interface for Hardware-Software Co-Design.SUNNYVALE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- Arexsys S.A., the leader in architecture exploration systems, and Telelogic AB (Stockholm Stock Exchange The Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863 [1] it is the primary securities exchange of the Nordic Countries. :TLOG TLOG Transaction Log TLOG The League of Gentlemen (UK TV show) TLOG Training Log (health & fitness) TLOG Theater Logistics TLOG The Last Of Gracie (Lima, OH band) ), the leading supplier of visual tools for system design and test, as well as software development, today announced the development of an SDL (Specification and Description Language) A modeling language used to describe real time systems. It is widely used to model state machines in the telecommunications, aviation, automotive and medical industries. to VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. interface that enables electronic system designers to use Arexsys' ArchiMate(tm) to perform architecture exploration of system designs developed with the Telelogic Tau(tm) toolset. SDL, the International Telecommunication Union's specification and description language Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a specification language targeted at the unambiguous specification and description of the behaviour of reactive and distributed systems. It is defined by the ITU-T (Recommendation Z.100. , is a formal graphical notation that is expected to be integrated into the system-level design language (SLDL SLDL System Level Design Language (hardware/software co-design) SLDL Stiff Legged Deadlifts (bodybuilding) SLDL Synthetic Low Density Lipoprotein ) which the electronics industry is developing. "Developing this interface is part of our strategy to set the industry standard for hardware-software co-design," said Francois Constant, president of Arexsys. "Telelogic has one of the most widely used system design environments. Customers have requested that we support the Telelogic environment and SDL as a primary language." "The Arexsys SDL to VHDL interface will be a natural fit for Telelogic's tools," said Anders Lidbeck, president and chief executive officer at Telelogic. "Arexsys' architecture exploration system fills a variety of customer needs. The interface makes it easier to verify the designer's functional and performance requirements and reduces time-to-market through system-level design reuse." About Telelogic Tau Telelogic Tau is the world's leading SDL real-time system design environment. Telelogic Tau combines UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. (Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system ) and SDL for a state-of-the-art development process for real-time systems. Additionally, Telelogic Tau includes tools for writing test suites in the TTCN (Tree and Tabular Combined Notation) A programming language endorsed by ISO that is used to write test suites for telecommunications systems. TTCN is used for "black box testing," which means that all interaction to the system is via messages, rather than by a (Tree and Tabular Combined Notation) and ASN (1) (Autonomous System Number) A unique identifier of an autonomous system on the Internet. Of the 65 thousand ASNs available, more than 30 thousand have been assigned to ISPs and NSPs. ISPs usually have only one ASN, but NSPs may have more than one. .1 (The Abstract Syntax Notation number 1) standards. Telelogic Tau is highly suitable for design in many different application areas. It is specially targeted for real-time systems with parallel, independent activities communicating through discrete events. Typically SDL and Telelogic Tau are used within the communications domain, but also within the fields of aerospace, medical technology, transport, defense, and factory automation. Application complexity may range from simple protocols to large and complex satellite systems. About ArchiMate ArchiMate is an architecture exploration system for electronic system designers. The key technologies in ArchiMate are communication synthesis, user-driven hardware-software partitioning, hardware and software automatic code generation at the register-transfer level (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; ), VHDL, and hardware-software interface synthesis. From an executable model of the system-level specification written in SDL, ArchiMate -- with input from the user -- synthesizes the communications, allocates processors to the functions, partitions the design into hardware and software, and automatically creates software code, interfaces, and hardware RTL code. Users can then evaluate the resulting architecture, using co-simulation techniques, and interactively change a hardware part into software, or software into hardware. Price and Availability The Telelogic interface will be available from Arexsys in Q4. It will be included in version 1.1 of ArchiMate. ArchiMate is priced starting at $125,000 in the U.S. and Euro125,000 in Europe. About Arexsys Arexsys was founded in 1998 to enable standard electronic design automation (EDA) and computer-aided system engineering (CASE) tools to be more efficient, and to provide a path for easily reusing existing intellectual property (IP). Arexsys' funding partners include Innovacom, Sofinnova Ventures Inc., Auriga, Sudinnova, and Axa Investments. For more information, visit the Arexsys web site at http://www.arexsys.com or send email to info@arexsys.com. About Telelogic AB Telelogic is the world's leading supplier of visual software development and test tools for real-time communicating systems. Telelogic Tau is comprised of tools for analysis, design and testing of event-driven, real-time applications. Telelogic also provides a host of consulting services focused in the real-time arena. Customers include Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Nortel Networks, Siemens and a number of universities and institutions worldwide. Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, Telelogic's worldwide presence includes sales and service offices in Asia, Europe and North America. Information about Telelogic and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.telelogic.com. |
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