CoWare Adds ARM PrimeCell Peripherals to SystemC ConvergenSC Model Library; ConvergenSC and PrimeCell SystemC Models Speed Platform Creation and Optimization.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level 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. ) software and services, today announced a major expansion of its ConvergenSC(TM) Model Library with the addition of ARM(R) PrimeCell(R) peripherals. The ConvergenSC Model Library, already the world's largest library of SystemC IP for embedded processor and on-chip bus designs, now contains critical IP platform models for peripherals. Through cooperation with ARM, CoWare has used the golden 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; and test benches to create these SystemC PrimeCell models. "Customers achieve significant time-to-market benefits by using the ARM PrimeCell peripherals in their SoC designs," said Tim Mace, PrimeCell product manager, ARM. "Having SystemC models of these PrimeCell peripherals available in 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. design tools such as CoWare's ConvergenSC enables designers to easily analyze their system and software interactions and dependencies." "With ConvergenSC and the new SystemC ARM PrimeCell models, an SoC designer can quickly create advanced SoC architectures, analyze and optimize the architecture and perform hardware/software tradeoffs," said Mark Milligan, vice president of marketing, CoWare. "We are continually adding important IP to the ConvergenSC Model Library to further speed the adoption of SystemC and ConvergenSC." Using these new additions to the ConvergenSC Model Library, customers can now analyze how these validated individual PrimeCell peripherals interact in a complex SoC. ARM PrimeCell models that are included in the library are from the PrimeCell System Products, PrimeCell Ancillary Products, PrimeCell Memory Controllers and peripherals from the ARM PrimeXsys(R) Platform. Additional models will be added to the library based on customer demand. SoC performance-critical peripherals, such as DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. controllers, memory controllers and other AHB AHB Advanced High-performance Bus AHB Assault Helicopter Battalion AHB Air Historical Branch AHB Attack Helicopter Battalion AHB Automatic Half Barriers AHB Aussie Home Brewers AHB Active Hyper Bass components, are modeled and verified to be cycle accurate, ensuring that architects can validate hardware and software performance months before the design is implemented in RTL. Pricing and Availability The new peripheral models have been in use at a major customer and are now available for additional beta customers. Production release is scheduled for Q1 2005. For pricing information, contact your local sales office or visit www.coware.com. About CoWare ConvergenSC CoWare ConvergenSC speeds the concurrent design of SoCs with embedded software. The ConvergenSC product family combines hardware/software partitioning and platform assembly together with simulation, debug and analysis capabilities. Together with the ConvergenSC Model Library, the largest IP model library for SystemC, customers can rapidly create and validate SoC designs at the transaction level in SystemC. For more information on ConvergenSC and CoWare's other products, visit www.coware.com. About CoWare CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of electronic system-level (ESL) tools that enable SoC developers to "differentiate by design" through the creation of system-IP including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive algorithms; the architecture of optimized SoC platforms; and hardware/software co-design. The company's solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :ARM)(Nasdaq:ARMHY), Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), ST Microelectronics (NYSE:STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ), and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about CoWare and its products and services, visit http://www.coware.com. ConvergenSC is a trademark of CoWare, Inc. CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. in the United States and Japan. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ARM, PrimeXsys and PrimeCell are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE:ARM and Nasdaq:ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM, Taiwan; ARM France SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. ; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; and Embedded Solutions Pvt. Ltd. |
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