Bluespec's George Harper to Offer Perspective at TiE-Boston's Software Services Business Forum; Local Experts to Analyze EDA Industry During Panel Titled, ''A New Beginning or Beginning of an End?''.WALTHAM, Mass. -- George Harper, vice president of marketing at Bluespec Inc., will participate in a panel on the electronic design automation (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. ) industry titled, "A new beginning or beginning of an end?" at TiE-Boston's Software Services Business Forum (SSBF SSBF Super Smash Brothers Flash SSBF Signal Structure Beamformer ) Thursday, January 12. The discussion will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Tang Center in Cambridge, Mass. Admission is $20. The moderator is Erach Desai of DESAIsive Technology Research who will describe the role EDA tools have played to shrink semiconductor design cycles. In addition to Harper, other panelists are Dr. Samuel Fuller, vice president of engineering at Analog Devices, and Abhijit Sarid, founder of Innovaide. They will attempt to answer the question: Where are the opportunities for entrepreneurs to start and grow new EDA companies in today's market? Bluespec, developer of the only 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. synthesis toolset for control logic and complex datapaths in chip design, has created a new level of abstraction The level of complexity by which a system is viewed. The higher the level, the less detail. The lower the level, the more detail. The highest level of abstraction is the single system itself. for integrated circuit engineers to control the growing complexities involved with large-scale digital systems designs. Its ESL synthesis software enables high-level hardware synthesis with quality of results that match hand-coded 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; ), accelerating the time to a verified netlist by as much as 50 percent, dramatically reducing verification efforts. To learn more about the panel or to register to attend, visit: http://boston.tie.org/Home. The Bluespec website located at: http://www.bluespec.com. About Bluespec Bluespec Inc. manufactures an industry standards-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolset that significantly raises the level of abstraction for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high-quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolset, the only one focused on control and complex datapaths, allows ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. designers to reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling (781) 250-2200. Copyright 2006 Bluespec, Inc. Bluespec is a trademark of Bluespec, Inc. All other brands, products, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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