At 42nd DAC, Synfora to Show World's First Automatically Designed Application Engine for SoCs, Plus a New Release of PICO Express.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Attendees to Get Sneak Preview of New ASPEN Processor Technology, Demos of New PICO Pico (pē`kō) [Port.,=peak], island (1991 pop. 15,129), 167 sq mi (433 sq km), Horta dist., in the N Atlantic, one of the central Azores. It takes its name from the volcanic mountain, Pico Alto [high peak], which rises to 7,711 ft (2,350 m). Express for Low Power Designs, and a Chance to Win Prizes from ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. NOW! Attendees at this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) will see lots of exciting new technology in the Synfora(TM) exhibit and suites (number 1851) in the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. , June 13-17, 2005. They will see a world's first: an H.264 encoder application engine that was automatically configured, assembled, and integrated from a sequential C source. They'll also see demos of the new release of Synfora PICO(TM) Express targeted at creating low power designs. Plus, they could win a custom t-shirt or a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. by completing a survey at www.esl-now.com and visiting Synfora at DAC. The contest is sponsored by ESL NOW!, a group of 20 leading companies, including Synfora, that provide electronic system-level (ESL) design tools. Display of the World's First Automatically Designed Application Engines Created in just six man-months, the application engine for an H.264 encoder was designed using Synfora PICO and ASPEN(TM) processor technologies. To design the same engine using existing methods would take an estimated 6.5 man-years. According to Raj Singh, senior vice-president of worldwide marketing and sales at Synfora, "SoC designers have been limited to working with small blocks that did not represent actual designs. With Synfora's new products, designers will be able to express complete, complex SoC blocks in a high-level language and produce fully timed, verifiable 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; that feeds any design flow. We believe this technology will greatly improve how SoC designs are implemented." Demonstrations of PICO Express 5.01 for Faster SoC Design Also at DAC, attendees will see demos of the new release of Synfora PICO Express for application engine synthesis. The 5.01 release features enhanced capabilities for implementing state-of-the-art algorithms found in multimedia (H.264, WMV (Windows Media Video) A family of digital video compression technologies from Microsoft based on MPEG-4. Version 9 of the WMV codec was released to the SMPTE organization and became the SMPTE 421M standard, otherwise known as VC-1 (see VC-1). ), imaging (photo-quality printing), wireless (3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol ), and security (AES) applications. PICO Express creates flow-controlled networks of hardware accelerators from sequential C algorithms. Additionally, the new release provides excellent support for low voltage libraries, enabling engineers to target low power designs with unprecedented ease. According to Synfora CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Simon Napper, "Companies working to implement complex algorithms in silicon, such as H.264 encoders, face tremendous complexity. Beyond adopting a higher-level language, they must move to a higher-level capability. The unique ability of PICO Express to take complex C algorithms and automatically create an efficient, flow-controlled network of hardware accelerators is crucial for managing this implementation complexity. PICO Express 5.01 is the only tool that can produce such intricate designs." ESL NOW! Contest Attendees who visit Synfora's booth or suites will have the chance to win prizes, such as a Sony PSP and custom t-shirts, by participating in the ESL NOW! survey before coming to the show. They should visit www.esl-now to complete the survey. About Synfora Founded in 2003, Synfora, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. is the leading provider of application engine synthesis (AES) software used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synfora's technology helps to reduce fixed design costs and dramatically speed chip development and time-to-market. Synfora targets companies in the audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security segments of the IC design market. The company's investors are ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment Ventures, Foundation Capital, and U.S. Venture Partners. For the latest news and information on Synfora, visit www.synfora.com. Synfora, the Synfora logo, ASPEN, and PICO are trademarks of Synfora, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies. |
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